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Favorite homebrew
What has been your favorite homebrew recipe you have done in the last year or so? I am looking for some ideas for a my next few brews.
I made a DC's Rye IPA, which is the favorite beer I have ever made, A close second would be the California Common recipe I did a couple of months ago, which was the first recipe I developed myself.
According to everyone that has had some, the nut brown I brewed has been the best. Followed closely by a black ale. I've decided to make the nut brown a "staple" and have it around in quantity for get togethers and the such.
The Sweet Stout Recipe I posted was probably my favorite beer I have brewed to date.
http://www.brewingkb.com/recipes/sweet-stout-686.html for that recipe...
I am almost done with a Peat-Smoked Porter (Kegging it in two days!), & then brewing an Oatmeal Stout partial mash & a mead in the upcoming weeks! Should be an interesting Holiday season! 
I did Northern Brewer's Barleywine extract+mini-mash kit...I don't know how you feel about kits or extract batches but I think it turned out pretty darn tasty....
If you liked Denny's Rye, you should try his Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter. I brewed it this past week and it's still chugging along, but it smells incredible. I can only imagine what it's going to be like after racking onto the vanilla beans and then adding the bourbon. I'm using Makers Mark, because that's what the wife likes to drink. I didn't dump the mash and left it for a couple of days, so now I have some sour porter wort, thinking of adding a bit to a Russian Imperial Stout and see how that goes.
My favorite recipes so far would probably be my house IPA and my RIS. The RIS came out just like Old Rasputin. I'm just now getting around to getting all my recipes on the computer and online, so I'll try to remember to post them after they are up.
DT
After a few tries I finally got everything right with a Chocolate Stout. It was delicious and ran out very quick.
Cranus wrote:
After a few tries I finally got everything right with a Chocolate Stout. It was delicious and ran out very quick.
Have a recipe to share for that one?
dmofot, I am actually getting ready to brew Denny's Bourbon Vanilla Porter this weekend. I have been waiting a long time for this one, as it sounds great. I would have done a while back, but a new baby has greatly cut back my free time for brewing. When you get to try it, let me know how it comes out.
norcalnewb wrote:
dmofot, I am actually getting ready to brew Denny's Bourbon Vanilla Porter this weekend. I have been waiting a long time for this one, as it sounds great. I would have done a while back, but a new baby has greatly cut back my free time for brewing. When you get to try it, let me know how it comes out.
Will do! I'll say right now that it smelled/tasted incredible going into the fermenter. I added some base grain to make up for my efficiency as Denny usually gets something in the 80% range and I still came in at 1.083 instead of 1.087. Oh well, I'm still getting used to my system.
I hear you on the free time for brewing. I've got an Imperial Stout that I've been meaning to brew again for months and just haven't had time to get around to it...and I don't have any newborns! Been brewing a lot of beer for others (weddings, parties, etc.), but after October it'll be back to brewing for myself. Think I'm going to try and nail down a Chocolate Donut beer...sort of like darker Krispy Kreme...
DT
This is the Recipe I used for the Chocolate Stout. From the BYO site.
Bitter Chocolate Imperial Stout
by Scott Russell
Bitter Chocolate Imperial Stout
5 gallons, extract with grains OG = 1.070, FG = 1.022, IBU = 45
Ingredients:
4 oz. black malt
4 oz. chocolate malt
4 oz. roasted barley
7 lbs. dark dry malt extract
2 oz. unsweetened baker's chocolate, broken
8 AAU Target hops (1 oz. of 8% alpha acid)
4 AAUs Fuggles hops (1 oz. of 4% alpha acid)
1 pint starter of English ale yeast (White Labs WLP002 or Wyeast 1968)
3/4 cup dry malt extract for priming
Step by Step:
Steep the black and chocolate malts and the roasted barley in 2.5 gallons of cold water. Gradually raise heat to 150° F, hold 30 minutes. Remove grains and rinse them back into the pot with hot water. Stir in dry malt and baker's chocolate, bring to boil. Boil 15 minutes, add Target hops. Boil 45 minutes, add Fuggles hops. Boil 15 minutes, remove from heat, cool 15 minutes. Add to fermenter along with enough chilled, pre-boiled water to make 5.25 gallons. Cool to 70° F, pitch yeast. Seal and ferment for ten days, rack to secondary and age in a cool dark place for a month. Prime with dry malt and bottle. Bottle condition cool and dark for a month or more.
I have two that I really like. Blueberry and my amber ale. I don't have the recipes in front of me, but the blueberry was 8-9# pale, 1# crystal 40L, I might have added munich, then 6# of berries in the secondary. I don't use any specific hop, just anything under 6% AA for bittering, no aroma. The amber ale is easy. About 10# pale, 1/2# crystal 60L, 1/2# crystal 80L, 1# munich, 1 oz chinook @ 60, 1 oz cascade @ 15, 1 oz crystal @ 5. I have given my amber ale to lots of people and they loved it. I called it Amber Waves Of Grain. 
Aspen, I am book marking your recipe for the sweet stout. Have you tried the Widmer Bros Milk Stout? It seems like your recipe may be close to that. If so, I will be one happy camper. How is the porter coming? I have thought about these as well.
It is funny, as the weather starts to cool off, my interest in dark beers goes way up. Over the summer, I am strictly an IPA or Pale Ale guy.
Please - what is the recipe for Denny's Bourbon Vanilla Porter? It sounds fantastic! I looked in the recipes here and did not see it. I will brew it this week if you post it.
Thank you!
And thank you to everyone who has been posting recipes! They look delicious, I cannot wait to brew them!
As for favorites, many people who drink with me say they love my Java Porter, which is sometimes my favorite too. Right now, my favorite is the Rye IPA. I think I like it more now because I am becoming more experienced with all-grain, and am able to brew the kind of light beers that I actually like. Most of the time I only drink dark beers, because I rarely like a commercial light beer.
Car Boy, I just posted the recipe in a separate post. I am brewing it tomorrow, and have been greatly looking forward to it.
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