Need a dark recipe for daughter

[dpalme]

My daughter is visiting this thanksgiving, I only get to see her a few times a year (in her infinite wisdom she moved to Minnesota) and her sister and I want to brew her a beer as a surprise.

She prefers dark beers, nothing heavy in IBU's, just a good all around tasting beer. I don't have nitrogen so getting a creamy head like a Guiness isn't gonna happen. I prefer ales due to equipment issues and I prefer all grain.

Let em rip guys I need to get this brewed this weekend.

 

[Hello]

Does she like sweet stouts?

 

[Yooper]

What kind of "dark" beers does she like? Stouts? Nut brown ales? porters? British mild? That's a very wide description, and can run the gamut from hoppy to roasty, and everything in between. If you know of one commercial beer she'd like, we can come up with something but "light" and "dark" are far too broad.

 

[dpalme]

She doesn't like hoppy tastes, does not like ipa's or bitter

Dark and sort of creamy

 

[Yooper]

She doesn't like hoppy tastes, does not like ipa's or bitter

Dark and sort of creamy

I was just thinking- my daughter is not much of a beer drinker, but she loves Scottish ales and especially wee heavy. Is something like that what you are looking for?

 

[mrdauber64]

Yooper's Oatmeal Stout is fantastic! Low abv, low ibu, and good body. Overall a very good beer!

 

[dpalme]

Yes topper so etching along that line would work. Never tried an oatmeal so not sure if she'd like that or not

 

[DSmith]

How about a Mild? Are you bottle conditioning by Thanksgiving or kegging?

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f67/mild-mannered-ale-ag-e-uk-us-52776/

 

[dpalme]

Kegging, I gave up bottling after the first three

 

[Setesh]

I would say Yoopers Oat stout or BierMunchers Black Pearl Porter. Both are VERY tasty, very easy to make, and are easy drinking.

 

[USAFSooner]

Left Hand Milk Stout Clone from AHS or Milk Stout from NB are good.

 

[dpalme]

Thanks everyone, going with Yoopers Oatmeal stout

 

[dpalme]

Well its in the fermentation bucket...

Didn't hit the numbers I wanted, mash temp was a tad high (5 degrees) and I never was able to get it down to what I wanted....

I need to keep some purified water frozen for just these situations but didn't have any available.

Original gravity came in at 1.054 versus the target of 1.052....

We'll see what its like in three weeks.

Brewing a Kolsh next weekend.