Dodge a dog, hop a fence, fire a newspaper through a window, and get chased down the street by an old woman in curlers. Who didn’t like the paperboy adventure?!
Let this porter take you on a journey of caramel and malt with a nice pecan finish.
Check out this 1984 Nintendo Paperboy commercial.
Pre-boil Gravity: 1.032
Original Gravity: 1.061
Final Gravity: 1.016
ABV:5.91%
Fermentables: 20 lbs. - American 2 Row 1.5 lbs. - Chocolate Malt 1 lb. - Caramel Crystal 40 1 lb. - Caramel Crystal 60 0.5 lb. - Dark Wheat 0.5 lb. - Roasted Barley 1 lbs - Flaked Wheat 0.5 lb. - Black Prinz (Flaked Wheat and Black Prinz added to mash second with about 25 minutes to go, on the top of the sparge.) Boil (hops in pellet form): 2.0 oz. - Fuggles (4.7 AA) @60 1.0 oz. - East Kent Goldings (5.9 AA) @10 1.0 oz. - East Kent Goldings (5.9 AA) @Whirlpool Yeast – USE STARTER: Wyeast - American Ale 1056
Special Instructions:
11.5 Gallon Recipe, Preboil of 14 Gallons. We boiled for ~90 minutes.
24 oz. of pecans added to secondary. Chop and dry/roast in oven before adding. Tincture in vodka.