Porter recipe?

[tourer]

searching for someting else i came across this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -pint.html

[Matt12398]

You'd have thought the journalist might have actually spoken to someone that brews beers to understand that you can brew cheap beer without following this awful sounding recipe, 9 gallons isn't a big batch and that this is a very misinformed news article.

[orlando]

Well I tried converting this and putting it through BeerSmith and it came out at 1.055 using MO. But we don't know what Barley he used, if it was like Chevallier, a malt that came along a little later, the yield might have been down on this as a modern version I brewed with earlier in the year showed it yielded less than the modified Barley's of today.

A peck I think is a bout 9 kilos with the treacle just under 1/2 kilo. With 113g of Goldings at 7.2% AA boiled for 90 minutes I get an IBU of 52.3.

So it might be a recipe we wouldn't be particularly keen on brewing but not far off of many commercial brews, probably then as now.

[tourer]

You'd have thought the journalist might have actually spoken to someone that brews beers to understand that you can brew cheap beer without following this awful sounding recipe, 9 gallons isn't a big batch and that this is a very misinformed news article.

Matt12398, i thought it sounded cheap and nasty, but i like the germans approach of Reinheitsgebot.

[Matt12398]

I think my response was possibly a bit strong but I just felt like they wrote an article about beer without actually asking anyone that knew anything about beer to comment.

[dreadskin69]

look for treacle ale in other brews section. its nasty by the way