Competitions are announced in Spring, and judged at the end of Winter. You'll get at least 3 chances to get the recipe before end of winter

引用自 TheSiegeTech：

Competitions are announced in Spring, and judged at the end of Winter. You'll get at least 3 chances to get the recipe before end of winter

I've been camped in summer trying over and over again, more than three times. i can't even make anything submitable, since the competition requires you to make a stout in particular

You'll get 2 new recipes in fall, then another 2 in winter. As long as you're submitted by the time you end winter, you're good

The Oatmeal Stout recipe comes very close, but you will have to mod it a bit to meet all the desired stats.

I had a recipe called "Bastard's Son Stout" because it was quite literally a combination of ingredients from Irish-Dry, English and American stout. I submitted it once and got second place. Now when I try to recreate that same recipe, it won't even show up as a stout but as a porter or a bitter. I'm not sure if the devs tweaked something but this has been grinding my gears.

Edit:
Don't know how I did it but managed to make the recipe again by being as exact as possible and it came out as 60% American Stout. Even won the competition.

Try this one. 94% American Stout.
(Not enough flavor notes matched)

Boil 6.6 gallons of tap-water down to 5.5 gallons.
Turn-off heat and cover. Wait one day.

Steep in 5.5 gallons cold water:
8.8oz of Chocolate (400 SRM)
8.8oz of Roasted Barley (750 SRM)

Turn-on heat and begin to pour into water:
4.4# of Light Malt Extract (15 SRM)
8.8oz of Dark Malt Extract (800 SRM)
1.1# of Corn Suger

When wort begins boil steep remove steeping grain bags, and then introduce:
0.7 of Cluster (8.5%) for 50 minutes and then another 10 miinutes with,
1.76oz of Commodore (15.5%) for 10 minutes for a total of 60 minutes.

Remove hop-bags and turn-off heat, and then cover. Wait one day.
Put chilled wort into a small fermenter with So.Cal Ale I (80%).

Skip 10 days, then fast-forward time until 6.75oz of fermentable wort is left in fermenter.
Drain into a conditioning keg, and then skip 18 days.

Done. This will win 1st in the first Winter competition.

引用自 Jimbo：

Try this one. 94% American Stout.
(Not enough flavor notes matched)

Boil 6.6 gallons of tap-water down to 5.5 gallons.
Turn-off heat and cover. Wait one day.

Steep in 5.5 gallons cold water:
8.8oz of Chocolate (400 SRM)
8.8oz of Roasted Barley (750 SRM)

Turn-on heat and begin to pour into water:
4.4# of Light Malt Extract (15 SRM)
8.8oz of Dark Malt Extract (800 SRM)
1.1# of Corn Suger

When wort begins boil steep remove steeping grain bags, and then introduce:
0.7 of Cluster (8.5%) for 50 minutes and then another 10 miinutes with,
1.76oz of Commodore (15.5%) for 10 minutes for a total of 60 minutes.

Remove hop-bags and turn-off heat, and then cover. Wait one day.
Put chilled wort into a small fermenter with So.Cal Ale I (80%).

Skip 10 days, then fast-forward time until 6.75oz of fermentable wort is left in fermenter.
Drain into a conditioning keg, and then skip 18 days.

Done. This will win 1st in the first Winter competition.

(i've gone past that particular competition, but i did want to comment that, huh, i'd experimented with cold-steeping of hops, but i didn't know it was an established method with grains)