Power to the Porter

For our third collaborative ale, my buddy the Jefe and I wanted to do a porter. We both are huge fans of Summit's Great Northern Porter, and wanted to create our own tasty porter. We played around with names for some time, I always want the name of our collabroative beers to reflect something of our 25 year friendship. I've always thought it would be cool to somehow play off of Public Enemy's logo by putting the Bearded Brewing logo in the crosshairs. When Jefe and I were in junior high and graduated from the likes of MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice, Public Enemy was one the first groups to really blow our little small town minds and became a monumental group for us. When I started looking through song titles, Power to the People jumped out at me. To be honest, this is one of my favorite labels, probably because I spent countless hours drawing the Public Enemy symbol on various school notebooks, so putting it on my beer feels nostalgic in a way.
But the important thing is the beer. Jefe and I did a comparison tasting of two of the best porters IMO, the aforementioned Great Northern and Founder's Dark, Rich and Sexy Porter. We thought the main difference was the amount of roastiness, with the GNP having more of a roasty quality and the Founder's having more of a chocolatey emphasis. We opted to go for the roasty side of a porter. Here's the recipe:
6lbs Light LME
1 lb Amber DME
1 lb Crystal 80
6 oz. Org Chocolate
6 oz Black Patent
Hops: 1.5 oz Fuggles @ 60
.5 oz Fuggles @ 20
1 oz Kent Goldings @ 10
1 oz Kent Goldings @ 5
1056 American Ale yeast.

We had good luck with our IAPA being what we had in mind, so I'm hoping the PTP hits a similar mark. I plan on posting some more reviews over the Thanksgiving holiday, been behind on my beer review posting. More to come...
Salud!
Bearded Brewer