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Posted 07 June 2012 - 04:33 PM

The AHA Club only competitions start in August. For August, the style will be Porter.Do we have some tried and true Porter recipes? And who here wants to represent the forum in the competition?https://www.brews-bros.xyz/calendar/event/25-aha-club-only-competition-porter/

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 04:59 AM

Not a big fan of Porters... have only made them twice. But I support how any of our brethren pursuing this competition. I like how you got this up and pinned with sufficient time to get everyone notice of the competition. Keep up the good work BBM.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 07:11 AM

I've never made a Porter. Not s style I particularly care for, but I'm sure we must have someone here who does. If we could win a few of these Club only matches, it should increase traffic to the forum.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 07:49 AM

I have the same problem, the porters I have made are just too borderline as stouts to enter in comp

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 07:55 AM

I guess the fact that I've made exactly one in the last few years disqualifies me.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 07:58 AM

I guess the fact that I've made exactly one in the last few years disqualifies me.

I could trybut I have one dark beer on tap nowhey, don't we have a guy named "Porter"?

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:04 AM

i've made a few brown porters (basically the same recipe). search for my recipe if you want. I'm not sure how it would do in competition but I like it.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:07 AM

I was thinking about entering one for our club. Who's going to do the judging for Brews Bros?

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:10 AM

i've made a few brown porters (basically the same recipe). search for my recipe if you want. I'm not sure how it would do in competition but I like it.

There's only one way for you to find out how it would do in a competition...

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:14 AM

I was thinking about entering one for our club. Who's going to do the judging for Brews Bros?

Cranky?

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:14 AM

Interesting how everyone feels about Porters because as a noob I feel that why drink a Porter since you can have a stout. I porter feels a bit watered down...like a Pinot in wines.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:15 AM

Cranky?

Who MTN cranky...never!

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:18 AM

Who MTN cranky...never!

lol noCrankycat. She is our resident BJCP judge.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:28 AM

So is Mtn, and I'm sure several others.

I'd be disqualified if I entered a beer to represent Brews Bros and I might be disqualified if I entered a beer to represent Brew Brothers of Pikes Peak.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:36 AM

so we have to send our entry to our resident judge, then they forward the best one on to the comp?

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:38 AM

so we have to send our entry to our resident judge, then they forward the best one on to the comp?

Right. Club-only comps have a first round within the club to determine who will represent the club in the larger comp. You generally send in 3 bottles for a club-only. One for the club comp, and two for the big comp.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:41 AM

Interesting how everyone feels about Porters because as a noob I feel that why drink a Porter since you can have a stout. I porter feels a bit watered down...like a Pinot in wines.

a robust porter could be a lot heavier than a stout. also - stout is a subset of porter.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:41 AM

I don't have the time yet. I saw this gem in one of the Porter threads in the Recipe sub-forum:

This looks like an incredibly solid English porter recipe to me.If you cut the crystal in half and put in a half pound of oats, it would be very similar to my very first AG batch - which just happened to win First Place in a competition I entered it in (and also got an honorable mention in the Best of Show round).

Maybe someone should reach out to Howie.

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:43 AM

a robust porter could be a lot heavier than a stout. also - stout is a subset of porter.

Really? Interesting!

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Posted 08 June 2012 - 08:46 AM

Interesting how everyone feels about Porters because as a noob I feel that why drink a Porter since you can have a stout. I porter feels a bit watered down...like a Pinot in wines.

I prefer porters to many stouts because they seem to have more going on - particularly vs. a dry stout. It's not just a weaker stout and in fact a lot of porters are higher gravity than many stouts.



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