[Wilbur]

Won a Brewers Best salted caramel porter kit in a homebrew competition. I'm not crazy about the idea, any ideas on a way to jazz it up? My son's allergic to peanuts, so everyones favorite Peanut Butter Porter is out. I've got a regular American Porter on tap right now.

Ingredients

• 3.3 lb BB Dark LME
• 3 lb Sparkling Amber DME
• 1 lb D45 Amber Candi Syrup
• 4 oz Brown Supreme malt and 4 oz Cara munich dark malt (Crushed)
• 8 oz Vienna malt
• 3 oz Fuggle hops
• Caramel natural flavoring (Will probably trash this)
• S-04 yeast

[Robert Rowe]

Wow! I am pretty sure, it smells great!

[jeffy]

Change the yeast to something Belgian and make a Belgian Dark Strong Ale

[chinaski]

I made a lactose-coffee porter that was inspired one at Hill Farmstead that I would brew again.  Lactose at the end of the boil, London III yeast fermentation, cold-steeped coffee added at kegging.  Probably lower gravity than your kit though- not that it matters much.

[BrewNerd]

Change the yeast to something Belgian and make a Belgian Dark Strong Ale

Love this idea. When in doubt, go Belgian.

Having had some poor quality results from S-04 yeast I have a theory as to why it was given away for free in the kit. It may have been placed there by your enemies.

[chumley]

Another vote for the Belgian. Add the S-04 yeast to the boil as a yeast nutrient.

[berserkbrewing]

I'd suggest wy3068 at 70 degrees. It would be one tasty porter. I used to do a porter with flaked wheat, rolled oats, and belgian candy. I used wy3068 and called it das teufel weizen. It was basically a lower gravity version of my imperial stout recipe minus a few ingredients.