Big Ideas for Small-Scale Craft Brewing: Don’t Miss a Full-Day of 10 Live Online Seminars at the 2026 NanoCon. Register now and Save 25%!

recipe

Sinebrychoff Porter clone

Sinebrychoff Porter clone

(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)
OG = 1.070 FG = 1.020 IBU = 45 SRM = 51 ABV = 6.1%
From simple ingredients comes massive complexity. Robust toasty notes meet and blend with dark fruits and chocolate. The vinous, port-like character from this brute wraps everything up in a dark happy bow.

Ingredients

10.25 lbs. (4.7 kg) Weyermann Munich malt
3.0 lbs. (1.4 kg) Weyermann Vienna malt
1.5 lbs. (0.68 kg) Weyermann Carafa III® malt (470 °L)
1.0 lbs. (0.45 kg) Dingemans CaraMunich malt (45 °L)
10.5 AAU Hallertau Hersbrücker hops (60 min) (2.2 oz./63 g at 4.75% alpha acids)
3 AAU Czech Saaz hops (30 min) (1.0 oz./28 g of 3.0% alpha acids)
Wyeast 2124 (Bohemian Lager) or White Labs WLP830 (German Lager) yeast (6 qt./6 L yeast starter)

Step by Step

Mash at 153 °F (67 °C) with 20 quarts (19 L) of brewing liquor. Boil wort for 60 minutes. Ferment at 53 °F (12 °C).

Sinebrychoff Porter clone

(5 gallons/19 L, extract with grains)
OG = 1.070 FG = 1.020 IBU = 45 SRM = 51 ABV = 6.1%

Ingredients

1.5 lbs. (0.68 kg) Weyermann Carafa III® malt (470 °L)
1.0 lbs. (0.45 kg) Dingemans CaraMunich malt (45 °L)
2.5 lbs. (1.1 kg) Coopers Light dried malt extract
5.5 lbs. (2.5 kg) Munich liquid malt extract (late addition)
10.5 AAU Hallertau Hersbrücker hops (60 min) (2.2 oz./63 g at 4.75% alpha acids)
3 AAU Czech Saaz hops (30 min) (1.0 oz./28 g of 3.0% alpha acids)
Wyeast 2124 (Bohemian Lager) or White Labs WLP830 (German Lager) yeast

Step by Step

Steep grains at 153 °F (67 °C) with 3.75 qts. (3.5 L) of water. Rinse grains with 2 quarts (~2 L) of water at 170 °F (77 °C). Add water to “grain tea” to make 3.0 gallons (11 L) and bring to a boil. Stir in dried malt extract and boil wort for 60 minutes, boiling hops for times indicated. Stir in liquid malt extract with 15 minutes left in boil. Cool wort, transfer to fermenter and add cold water to make 5 gallons (19 L) of wort in fermenter. Aerate and pitch yeast. Ferment at 53 °F (12 °C).

You might also like…

recipe

Speedway Brewing Co.’s Speedy Kiwi 5.6 ESB clone

Speedway Brewing closed its doors in 2010, but we do still have the recipe for their Speedy Kiwi ESB. While it is based on the English style

recipe

Bierstadt Lagerhaus’ Slow Pour Pils clone

Slow Pour Pils is aptly named due to the 5-min duration that a proper, multi-step pour of it demands. What you’ll be rewarded with is a st

recipe

Timothy Taylor Brewery: Boltmaker clone

Formerly known as Best Bitter, this classic English bitter was renamed in 2012 but retains its classic copper/amber color, citrus and fruity

recipe

Piatz’s Historic Porter

Steve Piatz of Eagan, Minnesota won 1st place in the 1999 AHA National Homebrew Competition in the Historic/Experimental category. This beer