I'm pretty much a hop head so I don't do a lot of porters and stouts. But I did brew this once and I enjoyed it.
http://www.highgravitybrew.com/docs/PetesPorter.pdf It is a kit sold by the shop I buy my ingredients from.
The IPA turned out very good if I do say so myself and my wife who normally does not care for hoppy beers is now a hop head too. I have the ingredients for another batch and I plan on keeping a keg of it in rotation pretty much full time. The aromatic and the Northwest Ale yeast made it a very interesting IPA IMHO.
This APA is in the fermenter now. The grain bill is from another kit sold by High Gravity, but that kit used Glacier hops which I don't care for. Centennial and Cascade are among my favorites.
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7.50 lb 2-Row
2.50 lb Maris Otter
0.75 lb Carahell
0.50 lb Munich 10L
0.50 oz Cascade (First Wort Hop)
0.63 oz Centennial (First Wort Hop)
0.50 oz Cascade (0 min)
0.75 oz Cascade (Dry Hop 7 days)
0.75 oz Citra (Dry Hop 7 days)
0.50 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 15.0 min)
1.00 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Boil 15.0 min)
1 Pkgs Wyeast Labs #1056
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And yes, bottling can be a mess. When I do bottle I clean all my bottles well in the sink and then run them through the sanitize cycle on my dishwasher. After that I set my bottling bucket on the counter above the dishwasher, put all the bottles on the opened door of the dishwasher and fill using a bottling wand on my bottling bucket. That contains 99.9% to the dishwasher.