Growing up five houses from a donut shop has impacted me in ways I’ve never expected. It’s made me completely biased towards my local donut shop, its made me crave donuts every weekend for the last 30 years and it’s made me want to put donuts in all sorts of recipes. A few years back I made a batch of donut ice cream with glazed and cake donuts steeped in warm milk then strained. The donut milk was delicious and was just like biting into a donut. The donut milk was just the base of the ice cream and I decided to take it to the next level and make a donut and coffee ice cream. Turned out to be one of my best ice cream recipes yet. This gave me an idea, what if I steeped donuts into wort? Would it provide the same donut flavor as it did in milk? Would the oil affect the beer in a negative way? I needed answers to these questions so I set out to brew a donut brown ale. For the brew I wanted to keep it simple to see how adding donuts at different times would aff