Chocolate Rye Porter

Started up another starter tonight for this porter. Using the British Ale yeast from White Labs. I wanted to try something a bit different using a porter recipe and adding some Rye and Chocolate malt. I've never really heard of a Chocolate Rye Porter before, so it either going to turn out good or bad. I will brew this up this weekend.

Chocolate Rye Porter

Malt:

9 lbs: American Two-Row

1.5 lbs: Rye Malt

.75 lbs: Chocolate Malt

.5 lbs: Black Patent

.5 lbs: Chocolate Rye

Hops:

1 oz: Chinook 11.2aa 60 min

1 oz: Willamette 4.2aa 30 min

.12 oz: Amarillo 7.8aa 15 min

1.4 oz: Willamette 4.2aa 5 min

Yeast:

White Labs British Ale (WLP005)

Target OG: 1.065

Target FG: 1.019

Target ABV: 6.1%

IBU: ~50

Mash Efficiency: 70%

Actual OG: 1.065

Actual FG: 1.019

ABV: ~6.3%

Apparent Attenuation: 69.6%

Hopville Recipe

Update 2.21.2009: Brew day. Ended up with 4.5 gallons at 1.065 which gives me 70% efficiency for this brew. Added yeast and I am sure things will begin to bubble away here shortly. We will see in the next few days how far it will drop. I had to use some Amarillo cause for some reason I didn't have enough Willamette. This boosted my IBU count up some but that's fine, the bitterness will go away with age.

Update 2.22.2009: Wort is bubbling like crazy today with a nice 3" krausen in the carboy. Hopefully I can get it to attenuate out correctly.

Update 3.3.2009: 1 week and 3 days since brew day. Checked gravity and it is stilling at exactly 1.019 which was my target FG. This would be my 1st beer that I hit both starting and finishing gravity on the nose! I am very proud of myself as you can see. Beer looks, smells and tastes wonderful. I think this might be the best beer I have brewed to date. Smell is chocolate with a hint of something else, maybe it's the rye or hops?? Looks is of a brown to dark brown but not as clear as I would like. Taste is exactly what I wanted, spicy rye mixed in with chocolate and cocoa and it finishes with some hop bitterness. I kind of want to drink it out of the car boy. Hopefully I can bottle this sometime this week!

Update 5.20.2009: This beer took 3rd in the Porter category in this years Brewmasters Open.

Update 5.29.2009: Score sheet from the 2009 BMO CRP