AUSTRALIAN PORTER

You will need:

• MJ Tyneside Brown Ale
• 500g Dark Dried Malt
• 500g Dried Wheat Malt Extract
• Dark Ale Grain Pack
• Red Ale Grain Pack
• 1 Williamette Hop Bag (0 min boil)                           
• 1x Safale S-04 ale yeast

• Try the real flavours of dark malt grain to delight your tastebuds.

  5-10 ltr fridge cold water *

 Procedure:

1. In a bowl, add the grain with approx 1.5lt hot tap water and mix well. Steep for 20 minutes.
2. After steeping, pour the grain and liquid through a strainer and collect the liquid in a saucepan.
3. Rinse the grain with approx 1lt of hot water and collect the liquid in the saucepan. Discard the grain.
4. Bring resulting liquid to the boil for approx 5 minutes. After boiling for 5 minutes, turn the heat off and add the Williamette Hop Bag to saucepan. Allow to sit for a further 10 minutes.
5. Pour Tyneside Brown Ale and hot grain wort into fermenter. Use grain wort to rinse out the tin.
6. Add 500gm Dark Dried Malt and 500gm Dry Wheat Malt Extract. Stir to dissolve.
7. Add your fridge-cold water to fermenter, and top up to 22 lt with tap water. Stir well.
8. Sprinkle S-04 yeast onto the surface of the liquid. Ferment at 18-20°C for best results.
9. Bottle when Hydrometer reading is stable over two days. Store for one month for best flavour.

Notes:

*    Use sterilized containers with lids. Do not freeze the water. Use the chilled water to reach a satisfactory temperature.  Add yeast immediately.

** Try to maintain a cool, even temperature in the fermenter, ideally at 18°C. Place your fermenter next to brick walls or on a cement slab, or wrap it in a towel with one end in water, if the temperature is too high.  Use a Brewers Choice Brewing Thermostat and old fridge for optimum brewing conditions.