Well, this weekend marks a new page in the Two Thumbs Brewing Company diary. This weekend I will jump head first into my first all-grain batch of beer. Thus far, since 2003, I have done mostly extract brewing with a sprinkling of partial mash recipes...but never all grain. With the excellent help of my co-worker, Ron, and the guys at American Brewmaster in Raleigh I have collected the tools necessary to take this step forward.
I have read up on grains and carefully built my very own robust porter recipe. And it should be very robust at 7+% ABV. I am incorporating coffee malt, black patent malt, roasted barely, and of course chocolate malt to make this first all-grain attempt memorable. I intend to separate the batch in half at secondary, bottling one half and aging the other half on bourbon-soaked oak chips.
I have also edited my half-batch Spruce bock (See Crapulator Doppelbock) recipe for all-grain and will follow the robust porter up next weekend with an all-grain spruce bock.
Wish me luck!
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