More Vanilla/Licorice Porter: Original date: 13-JUN-1998

Home in Utica.
More Vanilla/Licorice Porter!
Flying solo. Angela out with Sarah (Rigg). Cat doin' his thing.

1. Materials-
-Same as last time except got Absopure "Steam Distilled" water at Hollywood Market. Total cost-$41.00 (or close to it) between the water & ingredients at Shelby Homebrew Supply.
2. Process

• Put 4 gallons of water in fridge


• Cut vanilla bean into 3 equal parts after scoring it lengthwise down the middle


• Put licorice stick into two ziplock bags and bashed the hell out of it with a ball-peen hammer


• Put vanilla bean, licorice smashings, 1 gal of water into the stock pot and brought to a boil. After it started to boil, set timer for an hour.


• While the water was boiling, dug out the beer-making stuff:
  
  
  
  • Cleaned carboy with hot soapy water & rinsed with power washer
  
  
  • Filled with a mixture of bleach & hot water (135F out of tap!)
  
  
  • Set up a dishpan with hot water & bleach to sanitize the other beer-making goodies
  
  
  • Filed sink with hot water & put cans of malt extract in to soften
  
  


• Ate lunch. Leftover pizza. Yum!


• Started writing these notes


• Added the malt extract & 2lbs dextrose


• Boiled for 35-40 minutes. Had two minor boilovers.


• Filled carboy with 2 jugs of water


• Drew wort out of stock pot with a sanitized pitcher & put into carboy.


• Measured specific gravity of 1.052@82F


• Woke up yeast in the distilled water for 10 minutes & pitched into carboy.


• Topped off, corked, and cleaned up

--4 1/2 hours--

6/29/98
F.G. 1.010 @ 77F
Bottled.

Contemporary Notes -- August 2004

This was the last time I would brew beer for over two years. In the meantime, we bought our first house, and Savannah was born, all within the five months following this date. To be honest, I don't remember much about how this batch turned out--or if it even did turn out. Obviously, the first batch from the previous November was a success, and I was trying to make more, but life got crazy after this, and I just didn't have any time to brew again.