Arabic Coffee Porter - Brewday

Just finished putting the arabic coffee porter to bed. The yeast haven't woken up to do their work just yet, but I'm confident they will.

The recipe ended up being:
7 lbs of Pilsner malt
1 lb of Brown malt
8 oz of Crystal 40L
8 oz of Crystal 60L
8 oz of Pale Chocolate malt

Mashed at 155 for 80 minutes

1 ounce of 5% Fuggles at 60 minutes
.5 ounce of 5% Fuggles at 10 minutes
.5 ounce of crushed green cardamom at 10 minutes

Pitched one packet of rehydrated US-05

The original gravity ended up at 1.056, which puts my efficiency at 82%, which is better than I usually get, but not so drastically as to throw the beer concept off.

It developed a nice cardamom aroma during the end of boil, but I'm expecting to add a cardamom tea along with some coffee later to bring that all up after fermentation. This first addition is really just to set a foundation.

All in all, it looks, tastes, and smells like a nice beer so far.

Here's a shiny picture of wort collection during the mash: