Cossacks Shashka Baltic Porter (Competition Winner)

Brewer: Jeff Fuller

Style: Baltic Porter

Batch Size: 5 gals.

Malt Bill:

5 lbs Pilsner Malt
4 lbs Vienna Malt
4 lbs Munich Malt
1 lb Dark Munich
.5 lb Caramel 80
.5 lb Caramel 120
.5 lb Black Malt
.5 lb Chocolate Malt
Total: 16 lbs

Hop Schedule

(all are whole leaf hops):
2 oz Perle (5.7%) 90 minutes
.5 oz Mt Hood (5.2%) 15 minutes
.5 oz Mt Hood (5.2%) 5 minutes

Yeast

Wyeast 2112 California Lager (slurry from Steam beer)

Procedure

Mash

122 Protein rest (15 min.)
Thick Decoction to 153 for saccrification rest (120 minutes)
Thick Decoction to 168 for mash-out (5 minutes)
2 hour boil
Fermented in the low 60's warming up to room temperature near the end.
Bottled May 10, 2008 with 5 oz corn sugar and half pack re-hydrated S-23 lager yeast.

Readings

OG = 1.082
FG = 1.015
ABV = 8.8%

Notes

This was a split day brew (hence the long saccrification rest) as I was home alone with the kids that evening. I had horrible run-off issues and wound up being over on my volume after finally getting the wort to run-off. Even with a 2 hour boil I added 2 cups of corn sugar near the end of the boil as my hydrometer reading showed I was going to be a bit low on the OG.