Midnight Snack Porter Beer Kit - All Grain

Description

Midnight Snack Porter gives you a deeply satisfying dark ale built on layers of chocolate and roasted coffee from the Chocolate Malt and Black Patent Malt. Munich Dark Malt adds bread crust sweetness while Caramel Malt 80L contributes balancing sweetness and color. You get a smooth velvety body and gentle malt sweetness, finished with soft earthy bitterness from Fuggle hops. Safale S-04 yeast delivers a clean malty finish that lets the malt character stand out.

Your Label Peelers Midnight Snack Porter All-Grain Beer Kit never sits on a shelf. Your grains are freshly crushed to order, your hops are packed with care, and every ingredient arrives ready for brew day, no flashy packaging, no shortcuts. It’s all about giving you the freshest, highest-quality ingredients so you can craft the best porter possible right in your own brewhouse.

Beer Specifications

• ABV: 6.0%
• Original Gravity: 1.060
• Final Gravity: 1.014
• IBUs: 30
• SRM: 35

Ingredients

Grain Bill (combined in one bag)

• 8 lbs Briess Pale Ale Malt
• 1 lb Chocolate Malt
• 1 lb Munich Dark Malt
• 0.5 lb Black Patent Malt
• 0.5 lb Caramel Malt - 80L

Hops (substitutes based on availability)

• 1 oz Fuggle Hops (60 min)

Yeast (substitutions based on availability)

• 1 packet Safale S-04 Ale Yeast

Also Included

• 5 oz Priming Sugar
• 1x Irish Moss/Energizer Combo

Instructions

Prepare Equipment

1. Sanitize all brewing equipment thoroughly.

Mash

1. Heat 4 gallons of water to 152°F.
2. Add all malts to your mash tun and mash at 152°F for 60 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Sparge

1. Heat 4 gallons of water to 170°F for sparging.
2. Slowly rinse the grains, collecting about 6.5 gallons of pre-boil wort.

Boil

1. Bring the wort to a rolling boil.
2. Add 1 oz Fuggle hops at the beginning of the boil.
3. With 15 mins remaining, add the Irish Moss/Energizer Packet.
4. Boil for a total of 60 minutes.

Cool and Transfer

1. Cool the wort rapidly to 68°F using an immersion or counterflow chiller.
2. Transfer the cooled wort to a sanitized fermenter and top up to 5 gallons in your fermenter.

Fermentation

1. Pitch the Safale S-04 yeast into the fermenter.
2. Ferment at 68°F for 7–10 days.

Packaging

1. Bottle or keg the beer, carbonating to approximately 2.5 volumes of CO₂.
2. Allow the beer to condition for 2 weeks before serving.