Cafeoutdoors.com: Ozark -- Silver Dollar Porter

Nah, it's Papazian's. It's on (stand back while I whip this out) pages 314-315 of "The New Complete Joy of Homebrewing".

Thing is, in the "Complete Joy" it's an all-grain beer and I adapted the recipe into an extract brew. Since it's a favorite of mine, I actually made it maybe half the time one way, half the time the other, and won in the Porter category of homebrew competitions with both versions. I don't know that I could tell the difference between the finished beers - if you don't have one or the other of those recipes, let me know.

The inspiration for me was when one day back in the 80's I was sitting by myself by our backyard pond in CA with a cool glass of Silver Dollar Porter (the all-grain version) - throwing little pieces of bread to tame bullhead catfish. I kept sipping and doing a real careful tasting, asking myself "What would I want to improve about this beer, if I could?" The answer was - not a doggone thing, it was perfect.

I think a lot of that comes from the good old Northern Brewer / Cascade hop combination. I used that later in lots and lots of brews.

Great minds must think alike. I haven't brewed for a long time and my equipment is in the barn - but just last night I was thinking how I'd like to have a big batch of Silver Dollar Porter put away. Now that the weather's cooled down for brewing, I think I'll do just that.

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