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I'm planning to steep the darker grains as well to keep the astringency down. What is your plan in this area?

Dan

Now you know why I didn't want to post .. did you count the Brown Malt I'm thinking of adding?

Dan

BTW This recipe garnered a gold at a state fair a year or two ago ... having read the history of porter made me think of adding the Brown Malt (and thus make it my "own" recipe).

OK ... But this one has a bunch of elements as well. I'm tempted to swap from Brown Malt for some of the M.O. as well just to layer in a little more complexity. Dan Bighead Brown Porter A ProMash Recipe Report BJCP Style and Style Guidelines ------------------------------- 12-A Porter, Brown Porter ...

I won't be posting my recipe

Dan

The one link downloads the spreadsheet for me (lower link) but the upper one must be accessed with Internet Explorer and must have Web Components Installed.

I regularly use Firefox so I'll just grab the spreadsheet for my personal records.

Dan

I'm going to try and brew a porter of some sort for this comp. I have a vanilla porter waiting to be tapped but like Lars' it would be a specialty beer.

Dan

Outstanding info, thanks to everyone - I'll make a trip to one of the stores this weekend, good to hear from you all and I look forward to getting started again. Is there anything I need to know about what the two stores have (or more importantly don't have) as far as recipe formulation? You can al...

Welcome Shawn:

Hope to see you here frequently!

Dan

I've got the 3 roller Crankenstein with a homegrown hopper and a motor from Lyn. Like BC indicated, freshly crushed grain is very nice.

Dan

Sometime last year, we had a new registration from a guy promoting a brew competition site ... I cannot for the life of me remember what that site was ... something like brewdaddy?!?

Anyone remember? Seems like he had a plethora of comps listed.

Dan

Go get 'em Rezzin ... hopefully this'll be entered in the contest Lars posted about!

Dan

As a matter of fact it does .. I'll have to give that a go with my next belgian brew session.

Dan

Likewise! Ignition controls please ... timers might be interesting too .. hell just post it all!

Dan

Nice .. good to hear about brewing versus all of the club business.

Dan

Kegged the Nutbrown yesterday ... preliminary tastes are positive. I need to go check the CO2 absorption on the Vanilla porter and give it a taste. Anybody else brewing these days? Up next for me is a Czech Pils. Probably in the next week or two (gotta finish the new ferm chamber ... basically insta...