Recipe: Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter

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Recipe: Bartlett Hall Powell Street Porter

At San Francisco’s Bartlett Hall brewpub, head brewer Nick Mamere has built an award-winning program that includes this porter—winner of GABF silver in 2019, gold in 2022, and one of our Best 20 Beers in 2023.

Make Your Best: Brewing American Porter with Great Lakes

In looking for insights on brewing a great porter in the modern American style, Josh Weikert talks to Cleveland’s Great Lakes about the inner workings of the beloved and enduring Edmund Fitzgerald.

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Recipe: RedWillow Double Heritage Porter

Toby McKenzie, owner and brewer at RedWillow Brewery in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, shares this beefed-up version of their Heritage Porter, inspired by 19th-century recipes. Its layered malt bill gets added complexity from malt made from Chevallier, a landrace barley variety.

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Recipe: Incendiary Brown Porter

This is the recipe for one of several rotating porters that North Carolina’s Incendiary likes to make and keep on tap for its customers—but this is the one that took home gold from the 2023 World Beer Cup.

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Recipe: Hammer & Stitch The Porter

From Hammer & Stich Brewing in Portland, Oregon, comes this classically shaped American porter balancing darker malts with Pacific Northwest hops.

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Recipe: Finback Crispy Town

From cofounder and head brewer Kevin Stafford and the team at Finback in Queens, New York, comes their take on the contemporary hoppy pilsner—“a nice balance of new and old school.” (It was also a hit with our blind-review panel, tops in its class at 98/100.)

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Recipe: Burial Lightgrinder American Porter

From Burial in Asheville, North Carolina, here’s a recipe for the hop-forward porter that thrilled our blind-review panel. As an internal brewery favorite, this beer is, cofounder Doug Reiser says, “exactly what we hope comes back into style.”