whats the best dark brew you've made

[GOBLIN]

im a new brewer (up to my 3rd brew) and i love dark tasty beer! Whats the best dark brew you have made?

 

[Truman42]

Milk stout
Lucas choc smoked porter (in the recipe db)
Black IPA
Mongoose brown ale (also in db)
To name a few. I love my dark beers too and the missus will only drink dark beers so I try to do one every second brew.

 

[Samuel Adams]

The Coopers dark ale kit is pretty decent. Inspired by White Rabbit dark ale I brewed this and it was pretty good.

1.7kg dark ale kit
1kg dry malt extract
400g dextrose

3L boil (30 min) with 300g of dme and added
10g Amarillo @ 30 min
10g Cascade @ 20 min
10g Simcoe @ 20 m
5g of each @ flame out

US05 yeast

Would be fine without the US hops if you dont like that sort of thing.
Super easy for a decent beer !

 

[Bats]

There's a good toucan recipe on here somewhere. Cant remember where I found it but drinking it now and love it.

From memory it's:

2 x Coopers stout cans
1kg LDME
1kg Dex
30g of aroma hops on day 4. ( I used Goldings)
23 Litre brew.

Pretty easy and turns out around 8.5%. Perfect for these cold wet winter days.

 

[Eggs]

A little off topic i suppose. But a couple of weekends ago i opened a 1.5lt bottle of a kit irish red that id made 2 years ago. when i brewed it i gave it a month or two to age and i recall that it was ok. nothing special. the two year old bottle i opened was amazing. if someone had have poored me a glass of it and told me it was a commercial microbrew from some boutique i would have believed them. it realy makes me wonder what i am missing by drinking my brews so young. So the message i am sending as one new brewer to amother is regardless of the recipe make sure you give the darker beer time to develop! im seriously re considering the way i brew now.

 

[mosto]

The best one I've done is on tap at present.

1 tin Cascade Chocolate Mahogany Porter
1kg Amber DME
200g Choc malt
10g Northern Brewer @ 10 min
White Labs WLP005 British Ale yeast

I was going to age in bottles but tasted so nice out of the fermenter I kegged and tapped straight away. It has a lovely smooth caramel flavour coming through.

 

[bum]

Another vote for Lucas' smoked choc porter (upped the smoked a little though, also awesome as per recipe).

 

[Black Devil Dog]

Can't go past a Thomas Coopers Irish Stout 2 can. Simple and really nice.

 

[Rowy]

Milk stout
Lucas choc smoked porter (in the recipe db)
Black IPA
Mongoose brown ale (also in db)
To name a few. I love my dark beers too and the missus will only drink dark beers so I try to do one every second brew.

Is that the missus or the beer Truman?

 

[Truman42]

Is that the missus or the beer Truman?

Both..

 

[Phoney]

Given that this is on the kits section: Headbanger stout.

2 tins of coopers stout
1kg of dex
1kg of ldme
25g of fuggles boiled @ 20 min
Nottingham yeast

 

[bum]

Given that this is on the kits section: Headbanger stout.

Sorry, GOBLIN. I missed that.

 

[j-dunn]

I have this on tap at the moment. Had a few people over Wednesday night for S.O.O. and they reckon it's my best brew yet.

FA Black Mamba (Dark Ale)
Original Gravity (OG): 1.056
Final Gravity (FG): 1.009
Alcohol (ABV): 6.13 %
Colour (SRM): 19.9 (EBC): 39.1
Bitterness (IBU): 63.3
35.29% Coopers Dark Liquid Malt Extract
35.29% Coopers Wheat Liquid Malt Extract
23.53% Dextrose
5.88% Cane Sugar
0.4 g/L Chinook (11.4% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
0.5 g/L Galaxy (13.4% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Citra (11.1% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Falconers Flight (10.8% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil)
0.4 g/L Centennial (9.7% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Citra (11.1% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Falconers Flight (10.8% Alpha) @ 5 Minutes (Boil)
0.8 g/L Citra (11.1% Alpha) @ 4 Days (Dry Hop)
0.8 g/L Falconers Flight (10.8% Alpha) @ 4 Days (Dry Hop)

Boil for 60 Minutes
Fermented at 19°C with Safale US-05

 

[potof4x]

Some good recipes there. Another good simple toucan recipe i enjoyed is

Coopers stout
Coopers dark ale
Nottingham (or both the coopers packet yeast)
Aerate and keep temps 18-20 C
23L

 

[GOBLIN]

thinking about trying this one

Coopers Dark ale
Coopers dark Malt Extract
1 kg Dark Brown sugar
300g Roasted Barley
2 x w34/70 Lager yeast
how do you think it looks?