Beer Style: Stout Family
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.
Winter’s Imperial Stout
Imperial Stout Recipe (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.097 FG = 1.027IBU = 70 SRM = 100 ABV = 9.5% Ingredients12 lbs. (5.4 kg) U.K. pale ale malt3 lbs. (1.4 kg) Munich II
American Imperial Stout
American Imperial Stout (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.130 FG = 1.040IBU = 60 SRM = 86 ABV = 12% Our imperial oatmeal stout takes big and bold to the next level. This
American Oatmeal Stout
American Oatmeal Stout (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.068 FG = 1.014IBU = 60–65 SRM = 35 ABV = 7% For the regular strength stout recipe we’ve combined a classic oatmeal stout recipe
Session Stout
Session Stout (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.044 FG = 1.010IBU = 22 SRM = 31 ABV = 4.5% An Americanized version of a dry Irish stout utilizing a simple malt bill
