Beer Style: Stout Family
Forgotten Star Brewing Co.’s Whistlestop Oatmeal Stout clone
This stout is rich and robust with a harmonious blend of roasted nuances and a delightful oatmeal sweetness that comes from two unique oat products — Simpsons Golden Naked Oats® and Gambrinus Honey Malted Oats.
3 Sons Brewing Co.’s Summation clone
This is the base recipe for Summation, which 3 Sons often brews variations of with added flavors like coffee, vanilla, and more. If you wish to create a variation with adjuncts, add after barrel aging.
Firestone Walker Brewing Co.’s Parabola clone
Parabola is arguably Firestone Walker’s most notorious barrel-aged beer and is released as a vintage beer each year. This imperial stout is thick with bold yet balanced flavors of chocolate, charred oak, vanilla, black cherry, and coffee.
Mortalis Brewing Co.’s Ophion clone
This is the base recipe for Ophion, which Mortalis has released numerous variants of over the years with differing aging times and occasional adjunct additions like vanilla beans, coconut, and more.
Subversive Malting & Brewing’s Dark Harvest clone
Using locally sourced grain, Subversive malts their own grain that is used in Dark Harvest, relying on chocolate and caramel malts and roasted barley for maximum flavor in this stout.
Gordon Strong’s Sweet Stout
This example is more like the Mackeson’s I remember — closer to 5% than 6. I also keep the IBUs down, around 25, since I don’t want the bitterness to stand out against the sweetness.
Basic Cacao Nib Tincture
If you want to use a chocolate extract, Drew tends to make his own to control the flavor and strip the fat. Here is the recipe.
Dakota Point Brewing’s Antoinette’s Antidote clone
A French toast-inspired dessert stout that will require the brewer to fine-tune in order to get a version that they are happy with.
Prairie Artisan Ales’ Vinyl clone
A thick and chewy barrel-aged imperial stout with a high OG and FG, and tons of flavor.
Prairie Artisan Ales’ Bomb! clone
Bomb! is the brewery’s adjunct-driven flagship, a 12% ABV imperial stout made with ancho chiles, cocoa nibs, vanilla, and coffee.
Sapwood Cellars’ Flaked clone
This is their Sapwood Cellars’ Flaked (2021) beer, which is described as an imperial oatmeal stout with coconut and vanilla, and weighs in at 10.5% ABV.
Bring on the Warmth
Get tips and recipes for brewing three high-ABV styles — barleywine, wheatwine, and imperial stout — that you can brew now to help shake off the frost in the dead of winter.
