Sierra Nevada Porter Clone

Classification: porter, all-grain

Source: Ed Kesicki (ek@chem.UCSD.EDU), HBD Issue #1103, 3/23/93

Here is a recipe for a clone of Sierra Nevada Porter. I didn't mean for it to come out that way; in fact, I had never tasted SNP until after I made this one (my 4th all-grain batch). It is based on Dave Miller's traditional porter recipe.

Ingredients:

7 lb 2-row pale malt
12 oz Black patent malt
6 oz Barley flakes
.5 tsp gypsum
2 oz Cascades loose hops, 5.5% aa, 60 min boil (= 11 AAU)
0.5 oz English Fuggles plug hops, last 5 min of boil
Sierra Nevada Yeast

Procedure:

The yeast was cultured from two bottles (actually it was the yeast cake from a previous batch).

Mashing procedure:

Mash in: 130 deg. F 9 qts water (San Diego tap water)
Protein rest: 125 deg F 30 min
Mash temp: 154-142 deg F 1.5 hr
Mash out: 168 deg F 5 min
Sparge: approx 4-5 gal @ 170 deg F

Total boil time of 1.25 hr, hops additions as noted above, chilled. Fermented in glass, temp in the low 60's Farenheit, blow-off used.

Specifics:

O.G.: 1.050
F.G.: 1.017