How To Brew A Porter Beer - A Style To Remember!

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@Irishfan168 Ай бұрын

I like the sitting on crates discussing the brew. I know you talk about food, there just something nice about drinking on crates in the basement lol, maybe it reminds me of my college days.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

Working in film I've spent more hours of my life than I care to contemplate sitting on apple boxes just like those. It just feels natural to me now.

@Crytical8494 27 күн бұрын

Lol! I was just about to comment that they need to get a "Tasting Table" down there! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@neilblythin2134 Ай бұрын

I’d love to see you do a few ‘pub food’ episodes on the Glen & Friends channel. Your porter might make a nice variation on a ‘steak & Guinness’ pie.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

Over on the cooking channel today I use this porter to make a winter stew.

@brunopinheiro73 Ай бұрын

Hi Glen, Thanks for all the work you put into these videos, be it in this channel or in the other ones. I follow mainly your cooking channel, but I hope you realize that many people, me included, really like your method of presentation and your posture/personality. I love these longer (10+ min videos) in which you talk and do stuff. It's always a pleasure because you know what you are talking about and we learn about things that otherwise would never know or search for ourselves. Just gave a few likes in some videos to help the algorithm your way and hope this comment serves the same purpose. You really deserve a better visualization spree. And in the same spirit, see if you can salvage the footage you have. As I said, many of us really like to hear you talk, and definitely wouldn't mine some "lower production" videos. You can even mark them as such, and if you see they are hurting your visibility through the algorithm, put them private/take them down. Thanks for everything you do here. Best regards Bruno

@rogerwilco59 Күн бұрын

Glenn, this video sent me down a rabbit hole haha Thank You!!!

@subhumann Ай бұрын

porters and stouts just feel like autumn and winter. I'm liking the channel!

@kellybryson7754 Ай бұрын

I don't like beer, but it is interesting to watch the explanations. I really want to make bread now.

@rogerwilco59 7 күн бұрын

I would like to see you brew both a {high barrel and flat barrel) then mix it like in the BBC video. You take history and bring it to life, I am looking forward for more brew days.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse 6 күн бұрын

That will take some planning

@rogerwilco59 6 күн бұрын

@@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Question: Did they carbonate a Porter when using 2 barrel system?

@radical_ans Ай бұрын

Lol all the reasons you dislike stout are the reasons I love it. To each their own! 😁

@jonmccombs1711 19 күн бұрын

Great job always enjoy watching your videos

@williamstewart1883 Ай бұрын

I love coffee flavors in porter, but I also love coffee.

@Murzington Ай бұрын

The dichotomy between the fact that "Glen took the expense to epoxy the floors and install the stainless sink and vent hood system" and that "he's still single pot brewing with the pot on a step stool and the pid system is sitting on a wooden crate" is so wacky to me. Love that the channel is back though!

@playingwithdata 28 күн бұрын

If you get one of the mini kegs you could approximate the two part pour by highly carbonating the mini and putting the rest in the larger keg at low carbonation pressure. It still won't be the same as a live cask with a sprinkler head and whatever else was going on but you'd likely be able to get the frothy head floating on flatter base.

@khfarias1 Ай бұрын

#55! Thanks so much folks...Great video! "The drink that launched 1000's of ships"

@G.L.McCarthy-vr1oe Ай бұрын

I follow the cooking & flying channels. Came here as I knew there'd be history & Jules too! Glen, you never fail to deliver! Thanks🎃

@applegal3058 Ай бұрын

I don't even like beer, but here i am watching a video of beer making! 😂 love the history of all food and drink, and the method of making things at home.

@sixgunsymphony7408 Ай бұрын

People who don't like beer usually don't like laager styles, a good ale might change your mind.

@applegal3058 Ай бұрын

@@sixgunsymphony7408 perhaps it might change my mind. Maybe I'll try one some day when the opportunity arrives.

@midhudsonmarketing6484 Ай бұрын

I just watched your Porter Stew video where you use this Porter Beer. Hence, why I am here to learn all the background. I was thinking that 90% of a painter's job is cleaning, before and after. And, as per your other comment about not being in the movie business but rather you should have been in the "moving" business because you spent all your time "moving" equipment to get the shot. I think that's true of most professions. Lots of "dirty work" and little "glamour." True of my life in photography, advertising and marketing. Thanks for your always interesting videos, Glen. - Marilyn

@erikstephens34 Ай бұрын

Hi Glen, Love a good Porter! If you ever wanted to try the two pour process I'm sure there would be a bunch of people that would come together to help you try it. Myself included!

@jsimes1 Ай бұрын

Of course I watched the brew video first! 😁 My local Portsmouth Brewery/Smuttynose Brewing Co make a lovely Robust Porter which I love! Vital Stats: 6.3% ABV, 31 IBU Malts: American 2-Row Pale, Special B, C-120, Chocolate, Carastan, Carafa II Hops: Bittering: Magnum Flavoring: Cascade Yeast: American Ale Now I've gotta go check out that stew!! A favorite restaurant that sadly closed during Covid used to make an amazing stout cake and I am thinking a porter cake would be equally amazing!!

@ArmandoDy Ай бұрын

Mmmmm!!! 🤤 now i want some Guinness. 🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺

@owencampbell138 22 күн бұрын

Cracking vid. Keep it up!

@beechermeats9797 Ай бұрын

Just came from the cooking channel. For the algorithms bay bay!!!

@sennest Ай бұрын

Luvin' the beer channel alive again! Thank Glen, made my mouth water!😂😎👍👍

@lurker101 Ай бұрын

So glad to see you back in the brewery. Cheers

@curtpick628 Ай бұрын

Enjoyed the brew. Subbed!

@rayjeep Ай бұрын

I have to admit that I'm not much of a beer drinker, the flavors are often a little strong for me. I do enjoy an occasional blue moon with orange with dinner. I will however watch anything that you do Glen. I enjoy learning and watching folks lean into their interests. Going back through older videos on all of your channels that I may not have seen. Subscribed to all of your channels and will soon be buying an apron as a token of support, even though I will probably never wear it.

@lewkyb Ай бұрын

i think you've done a really nice job with the last few videos (haven't watched the older ones yet). i've watched a lot of homebrew youtube and the way you've done stuff is just great, keep it up

@absolutjackal Ай бұрын

It’s always so interesting how we like different things. I was actually just lamenting not a half hour ago that my local food hall was out of one of the few nitro stouts that I really like, which is specifically because it has strong coffee and chocolate notes. I settled on a brown ale that was so dark it was pretty close to a porter but I think the specific gravity was lower, it had a thinner mouthfeel.

@XOOT Ай бұрын

G,day from down under, I make a chocolate porter. A wonderful relic that seems to be having a renaissance. Great to see you making lager the right way too. Keep up the good work

@turkyandgravy Ай бұрын

In portland we have this black butte porter made by Deschutes, it's my favorite by far especially on tap. I would love to try to make a clone of it some day.

@HarryP457 Ай бұрын

I have a friend who is a retired wine maker as well as a very good home brewer and distiller. Last weekend I had the pleasure of trying an excellent wheat beer he'd recently made as well as a raspberry sour beer that, to my great surprise as I'm not a fan of sours, I really enjoyed. Sadly it was the last bottles of a brew made 5 years ago.

@xander1052 Ай бұрын

Love me some Porter, whether it's British or Irish. My personal Stout Porter is based on traditional recipes from when black malt came to market with just Maris Otter, Brown Malt, DRC and Black Patent. Hopped with Admiral and Fuggle for what in the current batch is coming out to be a 5.9% intensely roasty beer

@BrewabitRick 29 күн бұрын

I like a porter I really should brew one. Yours looks absolutely on point, great episode, cheers from over the pond 👍🍻

@notsonominal Ай бұрын

Oh, this was another channel? I wasnt subscribed but showed up in my feed; situation promptly remedied!

@byron7165 Ай бұрын

That's Glen's squozen mash bag.

@abefrohman1759 Ай бұрын

I’m not a fan of Guinness but I have found porters I like. I’m really looking forward to your cream ale video.

@punkdigerati Ай бұрын

That red keg lid o-ring seems real fancy for some reason.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

Much softer and gets a better seal than the black ones.

@punkdigerati Ай бұрын

@@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse is it just silicone? I have some white silicone ones that I like. I've gone for colors on the posts to help differentiate gas and beverage but haven't sprung for colored lid ones.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

These are pretty good, I’ll grab them before the black ones. I don’t remember the composition. I’ve noticed that one of the online places is selling a yellow (?? Green??) gasket that they claim seals better than even the red ones.

@Psinite Ай бұрын

Nice work on the video! If you'd really like to try out a two pour I would recommend transferring out a small portion from the keg into another smaller vessel then overcarb that, the easiest way would be to use a plastic soda bottle with a carbonation cap (kegland make these, and you should be able to find them at your LHBS) then you can use that cap to both closed transfer the beer over, carbonate, then pour from. A carb cap and transfer line open up an easy and cheap way to transport your beers out and share with others, so I'd highly recommend it.

@JT-py9lv Ай бұрын

A friend of mine makes a Russian Stout. I can't get enough of it. Thank you for the video.

@KarenVosika Ай бұрын

Stout is good as a beer float with ice cream.

@sixgunsymphony7408 Ай бұрын

You will need to acquire the Golden Gate tap system to use casks.

@maxbraimbridge5340 Ай бұрын

Would definitely be tricky to get the double cask set up going. Maybe if you had it bottle conditioned, half a little over carbonated and half a little under, and poured a pint half from each it would get a similar effect.

@noimdirtydaniel7794 Ай бұрын

Just finished brewing an "American Porter" last week. Used two-row for the base with some carmel, munich, and chocolate malts as well. Fuggle, Willamette, and Cascade for the hops. First beer in a few years, and first one with a keg setup! Funny enough, I was thinking a brewing a Cream Ale next week, can't wait to see your video!

@jessegreenwood1956 Ай бұрын

JUst about my favorite beer! Its a coin toss between a nice Porter and a good bitter. One of my favorite Porter beers is actually Yuengling Porter especially on tap.

@vincentquirk1709 Ай бұрын

I recently tried a porter for the first time and really enjoyed it, there was one that tasted like bananas it was delicious. Glad it seems to be making a comeback in the uk.

@thatshadycow2294 Ай бұрын

Glad to see you’re back

@jakeh.8754 Ай бұрын

do the 2 pour!! have some friends over for beer. the pour in that old video look so cool. could it be made in very small casks? also surprised you foodies don't like coffee. I didn't know that and I've seen quite a few recipe channel videos.

@stonehenge313 Ай бұрын

Oh my that looks good! I am not a hoppy type of drinker myself either. I like a malty style as well - terrific show guys!

@johnhurley2404 Ай бұрын

Excited for the cream ale!

@Jase8Cake Ай бұрын

Good tip with emersion chiller and hop spider. I just did my first brew and found the temp dropped considerably when I put the chiller in in the last 15 mins and took another 7-10 mins to get back up to the boil. I'll pop it in at the begining next time. I thought I had done something wrong! Really enjoying the videos, thanks very much.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

@poil27 Ай бұрын

when i brew, i bottle and natural gasification with secondary fermentation. it's more work but it gives a great taste .

@GingerGames Ай бұрын

The recipe looks good. If you reduced the bitterness from the ~33IBUs to about 18IBUs, that would make a wonderful dark mild recipe too.

@PhattyMcdugen Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing!!! 👍👍

@austin2842 Ай бұрын

"10 gallons of beer is a lot of beer" Challenge accepted.

@j616s Ай бұрын

I've always wanted to do the two-barrel pint of plain. There's very little information about it, though. I'm not entirely convinced that carbonation was the only difference between the barrels. That report talks about the two lending different properties which don't 100% marry with just carbonation. I'm hoping one day a recipe and more detail will become available... Guinness have some interesting practices anyway. They do two mashes, at least they do now. The main is pale, and then the do a dark malt concentrate at a high temp and blend the two. Not sure I've ever see someone play with that at the homebrew level.

@SamwiseOutdoors Ай бұрын

I miss the ready access to wonderful porters and black IPAs that we had in the early aughts.

@SeanehKelleh Ай бұрын

have you considered getting a basket instead of a bag for your system? Somthing like the basket used on the Clawhammer Supply system? They're pretty cheap to buy online, you'd just need to figure out what size you need and make sure the clearence at the bottom is enough to keep it off you element and thermowell.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

Hang on - it's coming.

@turkyandgravy Ай бұрын

CREAM ALE CREAM ALE CREAM ALE BRING ON THE CREAM ALE

@samuel_excels Ай бұрын

Glen, why not try blending that Porter with a pale ale (like that bitter you made previously) to form a black and tan (known as a half and half in Ireland for obvious reasons). It's a form of drinking that died out with the porter sadly but unlike porter it has not seen a resurgence.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

I should try that.

@markyoungman7267 Ай бұрын

Interesting that Julie doesn’t like coffee, but she does enjoy porters and stouts.

@MF_Dicedealer Ай бұрын

I’m exactly the same way.

@gregdunn460 Ай бұрын

I’m the same way too!

@xmonks 25 күн бұрын

When dealing with specific gravity, I do find it easier to communicate the numbers to other brewers as "ten" followed by the remaining digits. e.g. 1.037 would be "ten" "thirty seven." Plato scale is what's predominantly used in the brewhouse, although I find specific gravity useful for beer packaging and some other calculations (weight, pressure, etc.)

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse 25 күн бұрын

Thanks Dad

@cathpeterson1944 Ай бұрын

I don’t like beers but do like spirits good rye, bourbon, cognac; interesting to watch how porter is made

@AndreQuirion Ай бұрын

I stopped using my hop spider in my last ~3-4 brews in a Grainfather G30 and, unless I brew a very hoppy beer where I does help, it made me wonder why I ever used it. The kettle cleanup is quite easy (I do have a false bottom).. if not easier than cleaning the hop spider!

@AndreQuirion Ай бұрын

Forgot to ask, are you using Brewfather? and if so, do you plan/mind sharing your recipe link? I'm definitely brewing this as my next batch.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

I don't use brewfather, but the recipe is written out in the description box.

@Andyb237 Ай бұрын

you could do cask however you would need a cask co2 aspirator this would extend the life of the beer up to 20 days!

@bierbrauer11 Ай бұрын

I recommend working in 5-10% of brown malt and switch the chocolate malt out with patent :). That’s just me though

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

So many options to fit so many tastes - I wish I had time to make everything.

@Wakkajakka Ай бұрын

I'd like to try brewing, but alas I don't have any room since I live in an apartment, and also it'd be very expensive to get started in general.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

doesn’t have to be - at its most basic it doesn’t take much. You should check out the channel ‘The Apartment Brewer’ his very early videos show great brewing in a small space with limited equipment.

@gcdevil74 Ай бұрын

I have used a local porter instead of water to make an interesting whole wheat bread. Think your porter would make an interesting bread. I have thought that making bread bowls from a beer bread would be a good serving vessel for a stew or chili

@quarlow1215 Ай бұрын

I'm like you Glen. Maybe even more so. I don't like hoppy beer. Not even a little. I can drink some but don't get real joy out of it. In fact my go to beer is Budweiser. I'm trying to find a home brew that is as close to exactly the same and then I may start making beer. My buddies feel the same and one says he's tried a bunch of homebrew Bud and he hasn't tasted one he cared for. So I'm hoping that is something you will feature at some point.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

My aircraft mechanic only drinks Bud Lite or Coors Lite - so I've been working on something to try and please him. At some point there will be a crossover episode between this channel and the airplane channel with an easy drinking beer for Chris. The cream ale that's in the fermenter may be something you'd like as well; it's pretty much a lawnmower beer.

@quarlow1215 Ай бұрын

@@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse I do enjoy the Sleemans beers. So we'll see what you come up with. I find the lites just too watered down.

@jimbrennan1181 Ай бұрын

Simple question Glen, it appears that you have a great space for brewing in, and you have pumps, so why not add one more vessel and do a batch sparge? I think that should be your next step, but hey, what do I know?

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

I get high efficiency with the method I'm using, and a simplified brew day. I've won awards and do very well in blind tastings with this method.

@robertdoran7505 Ай бұрын

I used to be an avid brewer, having brewed thousands of litres of usually passable beer of various styles. Unfortunately, when I was doing it, it was impossible to find a source of grains, so that meant using readily available malt extract or dry malt extract. This was the major downside of my brewing operations. However, on one occasion I did brew a batch from grain which, not only did I harvest by hand, but I also malted myself. It ended up being the best brew I ever made. It wasn't long after that that I quit brewing, having learned that malt extracts just don't compare to grain-derived wort. I do have a question. I notice you don't sparge your grains. Is sparging simply out of fashion or is there another reason you don't do it?

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

Sparging - This is one of those things that I've gone back and forth on. If I was using a 3 vessel system, or mashing in a cooler / mash tun; sparging would be part of the process just to rinse out the last of the sugar and get decent efficiency. In this single vessel brew in a bag system, sparging isn't needed to get the most out of the grains since I can squeeze the bag to get that last bit of sugar. I'm getting better efficiency this way, than I ever did with sparging.

@icemanknobby Ай бұрын

I brew beer like yourselves in a small space at the back of my house but would like to build a room similar to yours but on a slightly smaller scale, what’s the minimum size room would you say was needed? Currently I use about a 3x4m room but overcrowded with tut as well:-)

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse 29 күн бұрын

The part of our basement set aside for brewing is about 12' x 24' - but along the one side it is completely open to the rest of the basement (laundry room, furnace, storage, etc) so it feels a bit larger.

@icemanknobby 28 күн бұрын

@ thanks for that, I now have something to work to:-)

@slakingfool Ай бұрын

I dare to ask. How often do you hit your head on the hood? Cheers!

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

only occasionally -

@ssolomon999 Ай бұрын

I’m curious about how much the ingredients cost for a given brew. I can research it I suppose but maybe others would be interested as well? I brewed some beer way back when using canned malt extract and IIRC my per-bottle cost was pretty high relative to store-bought, wondering about the economics today (especially when a four-pack of the local craft beer I like is around $15)

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

I've never looked at home brewing as a 'money saver' - it's a hobby where I enjoy the process that helps me relax. I also enjoy the challenge of creating recipes from scratch just based on style guidelines, or throwing the guidelines out the window and creating out of thin air. I do save money by buying the base malts (the ones that get used as the majority of the grist) in bulk 50 pound bags.

@ssolomon999 Ай бұрын

@@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Absolutely, but "think of the money we'll save!" is a great way to justify doing something you want to do anyway :-) Seriously though I'm sure there are much easier ways to get cheap beer, but if the product I'd make myself (and might not even end up liking) would cost significantly more than the craft beer I know I like, then it wouldn't make much sense to bother, as much as I enjoy DIY. That said I doubt that's the case, as it looks like the ingredients for this brew would cost roughly $50 in retail sizes, does that seem about right? Maybe a more interesting question though would be if there is significant cost variation from brew to brew. If one batch is $70 and another $30, I know which one I'd try first... of course that info is probably pretty obvious from the ingredients list, so this was probably a dumb question from the start... You do make it look like a ton of fun, though, and I've definitely got the itch to give home brewing another go. Thanks!

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

The ingredients were probably in the sub $30 range - yeast being the most expensive. But even that can be saved and re-used in your next brew. I now only buy yeast if I don’t already have that strain saved in the freezer.

@JohnnyDoom Ай бұрын

This makes me want to brew again. It's always a fun time.

@bradbenski5752 Ай бұрын

Have you thought of splitting your batch, and then carb one heavy and leave the other flat. You could simulate the 2 pour, but wouldn't have the live aspect...

@quantumbacon Ай бұрын

West Indies Porter from Guinness is readily available in UK.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

Yeah Guiness eventually brought it back, but not 'live' in a cask in the same way it was pre-1973.

@quantumbacon Ай бұрын

@@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Comes in bottles, (6%abv) rather like the original Guinness did. (Ie not the draught Guinness) Mackesons (milk stout 2.4%) would be another favourite, hailing from NorthEast. ( Where you always seem to see on the news a little old lady celebrating her 100year birthday, attributing it to drinking one a day all her life)

@xander1052 Ай бұрын

@@quantumbaconI'm personally a huge fan of Fuller's London Porter and Five Points Railway Porter

@quantumbacon Ай бұрын

@@xander1052 Definitely had the Fullers and agreed, haven't tried the railway porter. Obolon velvet was a remarkable find when I was last in Prague. Interestingly on the website they state. . "5.3% abv. Solids content in original wort 14%"

@johnmichaelcule8423 Ай бұрын

Didn't Porter replace a three part pour?

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

I've done a ton of research on this, and it just gets confusing. But Porter was the OG beer of this style, with Stout growing out of it as brewers wanted something stronger; a Stout Porter. The 2 part nitro pour of today seems like a pale stand in for what they were doing back then.

@jimbrennan1181 Ай бұрын

What's the difference between stout and porter? Roastiness? Beer historian Ron Pattinson debunked that argument years ago. Stout and porter were just advertising terms that didn't really mean much.

@GlenAndFriendsBrewHouse Ай бұрын

Opening gravity, ABV, and mash bill are historical difference in porter and stout. Or at least the brewing books that I have in my collection from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s show that difference between them.