5. Porters, Stouts & Black Ales These ales are dark brown to black in color. Porters usually have less roast flavor than stouts. Milk stouts use lactose to add sweetness while oatmeal stouts use flaked oats to add body and oat flavor. The coffee stout recipes ask you to add coffee of your choice (not included). Black ales have less roast flavors and are designed to be black in color and easy to drink. 5A. American Porter hops which contribute floral, citrus, and mint flavors and aromas. SoCo - Robust Porter 5.6% ABV All Grain Link 34.4 IBU Partial Mash Link 33.0 SRM This robust porter is dominated by chocolate and caramel flavors with a hint of nut. American SoCo Texas Porter Willamette and Nugget hops are used along with All Grain Link American ale yeast. Partial Mash Link ABV: 6.28 A malty beer with plenty of caramel, toast and IBU: 36 chocolate flavors. This porter also features Wildfire SRM: 32.7 Pale Malt from TexMalt in Fort Worth Texas. Cluster and Willamette hops provide light floral and SoCo - Porter herbal flavors and aromas. All Grain Link 6.7% ABV Partial Mash Link 33.1 IBU An American style porter with American and 32.9 SRM German hops. Crystal 120L, Chocolate Malt, and Debittered Black Malt provide chocolate, caramel, SoCo - Peanut Butter Chocolate Porter and light roast flavors. Nugget and Hallertau hops All Grain Link contribute wood, herbal, and spice aromas and Partial Mash Link flavors. A malty-strong chocolate peanut butter porter based on a recipe from a local brewery. Use of SoCo Coconut Porter peanut butter powder and Cacao Nibs make a rich, All Grain Link truly unique beer that everyone can enjoy. Partial Mash Link ABV: 5.5% An American style porter with caramel and roast IBU: 34.3 flavors from the specialty malts and rich coconut SRM: 28.1 flavor that comes from the addition of toasted coconut flakes. This beer also features Sabro hops SoCo - Pecan Porter for added coconut and fruit flavors. All Grain Link 6.1% ABV Partial Mash Link 29.8 SRM This pecan porter has loads of caramel flavors with 34.5 IBU added roast and pecan flavors. The recipe calls for adding 12-16 ounces of lightly roasted pecans to SoCo Smoky Porter the mash. We advise that you coarsely crush the All Grain Link pecans before putting them into the mash. Partial Mash Link Alternatively, you can use our pecan flavoring A 5.6% ABV American Porter with a pound of oak before bottling if you don't want to add pecans to smoked wheat malt which provides rich smoke the mash. aromas. This porter features Galena and Fuggle ABV: 6.8% Revised 06/11/2021 IBU: 24.4 40.5 IBU SRM: 38.2 36.4 SRM SoCo - Bacon Maple Porter 5B. English Porter All Grain Link Partial Mash Link Maddie's English Porter A delightfully unique beer that balances all the best All Grain Link flavors this world has to offer. The roasty malt Partial Mash Link foundation provides a backdrop for satisfying bacon Maddie's English Porter is balanced towards the and maple flavors. malty flavors of chocolate and caramel. This ale ABV: 6.0% also features English style yeast and hops to give IBU: 35 you a malt forward English style porter. ABV: 5.1% Mesquite Smoked Porter IBU: 26.5 All Grain Link SRM: 25.9 Partial Mash Link A 5.7% ABV American Porter with distinct smoky Plodding Bear Porter mesquite aromas that come from Mesquite Smoked All Grain Link Malt. Northern Brewer and Willamette hops Partial Mash Link provide a balanced bitterness. An English Style porter which American Golding ABV: 5.7% and Willamette Hops that compliment the rich IBU: 32.6 chocolate, caramel, and nutty malt flavors. Golding SRM: 30.2 and Willamette hops are both English style hops grown in America which provide some spice and SoCo Honey Porter floral flavors and aromas that compliment the rich All Grain Link malt flavors. Partial Mash Link 5.2% ABV An American style porter with chocolate and 25.0 IBU caramel malt flavors that pair nicely with the 27.5 SRM addition of honey malt and wildflower honey. Amarillo hops and Cascade hops provide a SoCo - Chocolate Porter complimentary bitterness and some fruit and floral All Grain Link flavors and aromas. Partial Mash Link 6.4% ABV Rich dark chocolate flavors dominate in this 32.9 SRM chocolate porter recipe. This beer also contains 32.4 IBU pale chocolate malt, crystal 60L malt, and roasted barley which compliment the chocolate flavors SoCo Strong American Porter produced after adding cacao nibs to the boil. All Grain Link ABV: 5.89 Partial Mash Link SRM: 27.1 A high ABV dark color porter featuring American IBU: 30 Chinook and Willamette Hops. A base of Pale Malt combined with black malt, chocolate malt, and SoCo - English Porter crystal 80L malt give this porter rich chocolate and All Grain Link caramel flavors. The hops provide a Partial Mash Link complimentary bitterness and herbal and spicy This English Porter is a darker and maltier version flavors and aromas. of an English Brown. This beer is lower in ABV 8.0% ABV compared to American Porters, but still has the Revised 06/11/2021 dark chocolate and toasty flavors that you would Liquid Black Licorice. This beer is packed with expect with an English Porter. Challenger and licorice flavor which comes with the addition of Fuggle hops provide light earthy, spicy and woody licorice root and star anise. This beer also features flavors and aromas. chocolate and caramel malt flavors and is hopped ABV: 5.0 with Cluster hops and Willamette Hops. IBU: 25.1 6.4% ABV 30.2 IBU SoCo Brown Porter 32.8 SRM All Grain Link Partial Mash Link 5C. American Stout SoCo Brown Porter is an English style brown porter with an easy drinking 5.3% ABV and low hop SoCo - Double Chocolate Stout bitterness. Brown Malt, Crystal 60L and Chocolate All Grain Link malt provide chocolate, nutty, and caramel malt Partial Mash Link flavors. US Golding and Willamette hops provide a This is a rich chocolate stout heavy with dark light complimentary bitterness. chocolate flavor. Cacao nibs are used toward the ABV: 5.3% end of the boil to give this beer a dark chocolate IBU: 22.4 flavor but none of the sweetness. Galena and SRM: 24.7 Willamette hops provide a balanced bitterness. ABV: 6.4% SoCo - Vanilla Cream Porter IBU: 43.6 All Grain Link SRM: 36.4 Partial Mash Link A smooth creamy American porter with hints of SoCo - Rye Stout caramel and toffee as well as rich vanilla All Grain Link flavors. Lactose sugar adds body and sweetness Partial Mash Link when added during the boil. A strong export style stout with 7.2% ABV. This ABV: 5.9% stout features flaked rye and golden promise malt SRM: 30.5 which gives this beer plenty of body. A healthy IBU: 36.9 amount of Willamette hops provides plenty of bitterness to compliment the enhanced body. SoCo Salted Caramel Porter ABV: 7.2% All Grain Link IBU: 49.5 Partial Mash Link SRM: 36.4 An American style porter with added sea salt and natural caramel flavoring giving this porter a rich SoCo Texas Stout caramel flavor. Crystal 60L enhances the caramel All Grain Link flavor while Cluster and Willamette hops provide Partial Mash Link light bitterness. Skip dessert and drink a salted A smooth creamy English porter with hints of caramel porter instead! caramel and toffee as well as rich vanilla flavors. 5.3% ABV Lactose sugar adds body and sweetness when 30.2 IBU added during the boil. 23.7 SRM ABV: 5.89% IBU: 36 SoCo Black Licorice Porter SRM: 30 All Grain Link Partial Mash Link Revised 06/11/2021 Leaky Tent American Stout This beer highlights the traditional Irish Stout All Grain Link ingredients of Pale Malt and Roasted Barley to give Partial Mash Link you a very easy drinking dark beer. An easy drinking American style stout perfect for ABV: 4.4% moments like when you find out you have a leaky IBU: 34.1 tent during a storm in the middle of the night. This 6.1% ABV stout is is balanced with Crystal 40L, SoCo - Irish Extra Stout Black Malt, and Coffee malt providing your dark All Grain Link roast, coffee, and caramel flavors while Chinook Partial Mash Link and Cascade hops provide complimentary hop This Irish Extra Stout features the roasty and bitterness. chocolate flavors that you would expect from an 6.1% ABV Irish Stout. This beer highlights the traditional Irish 34.1 SRM Stout ingredients of Pale Malt and Roasted Barley. 45.1 IBU This beer is a little more malty and a little higher in alcohol than an Irish Stout. SoCo Whiskey Barrel Stout ABV: 5.37% All Grain Link IBU: 25.1 Partial Mash Link SRM: 26.8 A 6.4% American style stout with strong whiskey flavors that come from the addition of whiskey 5E. Milk Stout barrel chips during secondary fermentation. This stout also has chocolate, roast, and caramel malt SoCo Milk Stout flavors. Nugget and Willamette hops provide a All Grain Link bitterness level that complements the strong malt Partial Mash Link and barrel chip flavors. This 5.7% milk stout has creamy and sweet flavors 6.4% ABV that come lactose and flaked oats. Pale chocolate 45.2 IBU malt, roasted barley, and crystal 60L malt provide 33.4 SRM caramel, chocolate, and roast flavors and aromas.