Closet Black Cream, Porter,Stout, Old Ale, call it what you want, I call it a cold cup of coffee no sugar no cream. My most complex beer with added vanilla and Whiskey barrel chips, molasses. This recipe started from me trying to mimic Old Peculiar. Now it's my own Closet Black Cream. No lactose so not sure why creams in the name, LOL!!
1 gallon version.
STEP BY STEP Mill the grains and dough in targeting a mash of around 1.3 quarts of water to 1 pound of grain (2.7 L/kg) and a mash temperature of 153 F (67 C). Hold the mash at 153 F (67 C) until the enzymatic conversion is complete. Sparge slowly with 168 F (76 C) water, collecting wort until the pre-boil kettle volume is 6.5 gallons (24.6 L). The total boil time is 90 minutes. Add hops at times indicated, and the Whirlfloc and yeast nutrient with 5 minutes left in the boil. After the boil ...