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Fullers Porter Clone Recipe

Fullers Porter Clone Recipe

As part of my submissions for the Manchester homebrew expo in Manchester Beer Week at Beer Nouveau I brewed a Fullers Porter clone recipe.

This is one of my favourite commercial porter beers with great malty flavours and a hint of chocolate.

I used quite a few sources to put this recipe together and tried to stay as close to the information from Fullers website. A few substitutions had to be made for the bittering addition but I thought this would still get close to the real thing.

Recipe:

English Porter
All Grain (23.00 l)  ABV: 5.71 %
OG: 1.058 SG FG: 1.015 SG
IBUs: 33.0 IBUs Color: 52.5 EBC

  • 4.50 kg – Pale Ale Malt
  • 0.67 kg – Brown Malt
  • 0.50 kg – Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L
  • 0.20 kg – Crystal, Medium
  • 0.15 kg – Chocolate Malt
  • 0.10 kg – Wheat, Torrified

Mash In (66.7 C for 60 min, 2 min rise)

  • Add 18.93 l of water at 75.3 C

1:02 hours – Mash Complete

  • Batch sparge with 3 steps (Drain mash tun, 9.88 l, 9.88 l) of 76.0 C water
  • 0 min – Add Ingredients

    • 42.9 g – Northdown – Boil 60 min (26.7 IBUs)

    50 min – Add Ingredients

    • 35.4 g – Fuggle – Boil 10 min (6.3 IBUs)
    • 0.30 tsp – Irish Moss – Boil 10 min

    1:00 hours – End of Boil

    Yeast/Fermentation: 
    1 pkg – SafAle English Ale (DCL/Fermentis S-04)

    Ale, Single Stage(One Stage)

    Primary: 14 days at 19.4 C

    Tasting notes:

    Comparing mine to the real thing they were really close. The brown malt seemed to be the key factor. Mine had a bit more chocolate coming through and the commercial beer had a bit more caramel.

    Reception:

    At the expo we were very lucky to be able to put our beers through a commercial pop up tap system from The Travelling Tap.

    The Porter was named Feltham’s Threads and was on in between an American Amber I’d also brewed and the Imperial Stout from my earlier blog post. It was in good company with other beers from the Chorlton Homebrewers.

    All in all it was received well and it was great to take part in another event hosted by Steve at Beer Nouveau.

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