Does anybody remember Bert Grant’s Perfect Porter. I loved this beer and I was wondering if anyone has a clone recipe for this? Also, when did this brewery close? Any details?
Before my time sadly. I swear Zymurgy or BYO had something on it in the last year or so…
I did find this online, lots of specs and an ingredients list at a minimum:
Thanks JohnF!
don’t do it! it’s not fashionable to like peat smoked malt 
Hi, my name is Hokerer and I’m a peat-aholic
Yeah, I admit it, I kinda like peat-smoked malt brews
I would not have guessed that it had peat-smoked malt, but I’ll have try it now even if it is such a small amount. I guess a dab will do ya. 
I brewed the recipe johnf linked and it came out really nice. It had been ages since I’d had the original so I can’t say how good a clone it is, but I really enjoyed it. The peat is pretty subtle.
I’m staying in the peat closet; where I feel safe and comfortable.
I’m not sure I’ve had a peat beer other than the perfect porter and that was many years ago. Seems like I enjoyed it though, IIRC.
The Bert Grant recipe is in Clone Brews, by Tess and Mark Szamatulske,
Same authors of Beer Captured - my go to recipe book.
All recipes are winners. Haystack Porter in Beer Captured is my #1 porter. Bert Grants is a bit hoppier.
Grant’s entire line-up was great, I’m sorry they’re gone. The skinny on why Grant’s brewery went out of business is this: Bert Grant died in 2001 (Beer bio here: Home). Thereafter, his brewery was sold to another company which subsequently went out of business and the brewery folded in 2006. (Details here: http://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/Grant-s-brewpub-leaves-legacy-to-drink-to-1197281.php) Some of the Grants recipes were picked up by other brewers in the region. North Coast Tangerine Wheat is a pretty good clone of Grant’s Tangerine Wheat. I don’t know the fate of the Perfect Porter recipe, though.