So last time I bought ingredients, I ordered a recipe for a pumpkin latte beer and a recipe for a vanilla Porter. Now the vanilla porter was supposed to use an Amber liquid malt extract and the pumpkin beer was supposed to use an extra pale liquid malt extract. Well stupid me had both malt extract cans next to each other and I went all willy-nilly and accidentally poured the extra pale extract into the Pecan porter I am brewing. So now this beer is obviously far from the target beer. Now the only hop addition it calls for is 1 oz of northern brewer at 60 minutes. I have some other random packets of hops in the fridge.. Should I just say screw it and start adding some other hops and what not or just ride this recipe out like I didn't tremendously fu** it up
I would throw in an ounce of Saaz somewhere between 10 minutes and flameout. My biggest concern would be color. You might need more roasted grains to steep. Otherwise you have a brown ale.
At this point I'm no longer really going for a porter, or anything specific..basically just trying to have a drinkable beer by the end
the grain bill was, 1/2 lb cara vienne 1/2 lb crystal 60L 1/4 lb chocolate malt 1 3/4 lb pale ale malt 1/4 lb black roasted barley 1 oz black patent malt
What else can you tell us about this recipe? 5 gallons? You did add Northern Brewer at 60 minutes? Did you end up adding any other hops? Did you do a mini mash with all those grains or just steep them? How much LME went in?
Just plugged these specs into Brewer's Friend recipe builder. Here's what came out: OG: ~1.053 ABV: ~5.2% IBU: ~35 SRM: ~24 Based on these numbers, you're somewhere between an American Brown and a Robust Porter. The hops that you used will make it more Porter than American Brown. Should be a good beer. I'd treat it like a robust porter from here out. Cheers!
Where do people stand on adding the vanilla extract, recipe calls for adding it before bottling..(or kegging)
