Obama Honey Porter

Since we decided to start the blog just now, we don´t have documentation regarding the previous brews we have done so, we will start with this one!!

I want to thank "La Bodega de Chema" for the great workshop on how to brew this awesome beer!!!

Let´s start with the recipe:

Brew date:  October 2, 2012

6kg Pale Ale
0.5kg Munich malt
0.5kg Caramel 30 mal
0.167kg Black Malt
0.083kg Chocolate Malt
0.5kg honey  @5min
1oz Perle @60min
1oz Tradition @15min
1 Whirfloc tablet @10min
Yeast Saf-Ale 04

O.G (original gravity): 1.058
F.G (final gravity): 1.006
ABV% (Alcohol by volume): 6.8%

Since we are not profesional brewers, we won´t dare to provide deep details of the process, but we gladly share some pictures of what we did!!
 
Equipment

 Grain Bill

 Grinding the grains

 Mashing: 4Gal @68ºC

 Whirlpooling: 4Gal @80ºC

 Getting the wort

 Fly sparging

 Starting to boil

 Adding hops

 Adding honey

 Filtering to fermentator

 Adding yeast and going to rest for the next 2 weeks!!!

After 2 weeks it was time to fill the bottles, we use natural carbonation in our brew using 3/4 cup of "Azukar" disolved in 2 cups of water, process date: October 13, 2012

Washing the bottles

 Siphoning (ok... I don´t know how to turn the picture in the blog, it is ok in my PC but when I uploaded to the blog it changed... but you get the point)

 Sugar added

 Filling bottles

 Getting caps on

 Finally, my daughter making sure the bottles have no leaks!!!

This is the process we followed to brew our Obama Honey Porter, we appreciate your comments to help us improve the process and if you would like us to try a recipe, please let us know and we will try to brew it, document it and post it in our blog.

BTW, although there is no picture, we make sure to sanitize everything that touched the wort.

Hope you have enjoyed our 1st entry, we will come back with a review of the final result soon, this brew should be ready to taste on October 27/28, 2012, if you are interested to be part of the tasting pannel, let us know and we´ll try to arrage it, can´t promise anything  but we´ll do our best!!!

See you soon!!!!