2008 BKB Winter Brew - Oatmeal Stout
yur fired Brewchez..........
So are we brewing this and sharing? Or are we brewing and posting notes? I mailed off 4 beers to Missouri and the shipping was 11.55 through UPS. Got my matched beers in today and I already drank them w/ my buddy. It was a great idea and this guys beers were frickin unbelievably good.
well, bought the ingrediants today... talk about a shit ton of grains to pick up... all said and done, including the rice hulls it comes out to over 28 pounds for 10 gallons... I hope the old mash tun will hold it all!!
EKGs were a no go, but I was able to get enough first golds to cover it which are pretty similar... friggin hops were 3.19 per ounce!! Looks like I won;t be making any hoppy beers until this whole shortage is done...
I picked up a new 50# sack of brewers 2 row, the base malt I use for almost everything, but still got 7 pounds of marris otter... that way half of the base is english and it should come out a little closer to planned. Thanks to brechezes thought on using old fashioned oats in the mash I was able to save money by just buying those at the grocery store and not buying the ones from the LHBS.
can't wait to brew this up on tusday!! better start grinding... it's gonna take a while...
Don't know when I will be able to brew this. But stopped in a brew shop yesterday while traveling, and grabbed 2oz EKG. His prices didn't reflect the shortage, they were only 2.00 per oz...
Well this looks like a great recipe and it will be my first all grain attempt! All the equipment will be together late November and can't wait to leap off the cliff with this beer! Don't worry I have an experienced brew partner on belay, so he'll supervise. He has done tons of all grain with the same setup I'm building. Plus since I love a good oatmeal stout this will be very rewarding.
His tip when reading the ingredients: Prior to brewing, mix the oats and rice hulls in a bag, then add to the other grains. This will nicely disperse the oats so the colloid will reduce the chances of a stuck sparge. If you just add them and stir then you could wind up with a layer of oats... and a stuck sparge regardless of the rice hulls.
Where did you all order the yeast from????
bought mine from the local store.. first time I've ever used white labs... have always done smack packs and dry. I would order from a bigger name dealer (williams, morebeer, midwest, etc) that is as close to you in location to try and cut the transit time as much as possible.
I have never had an issue w/ mail order yeast pay the $1 for the cold pack. PLus these cold packs are refreezable and great cooler packers for the summer. I got some beer shipped to me friday and it was already ice cold coming out of the package, I think this time of the year unleass you are in the southwest, it should stay pretty cool.
well i brewed my batch yesterday... and while i won't say it went smooth, my efficiency actually came out higher than the last few batches!!
My main problem was that for a beer with this much grain for ten gallons, my mash tun ended up being just a hair too small to fit all the strike water (28lbs of grain and a 48quart cooler tun) I ended up making a mess, having to sparge with more water than normal, and batch sparge twice to get my boiler up tp 11.75 gallons.
The valve on my faithful tun that has brewed almost a hundred gallons for me decided to loosen up and start leaking the valuable black stuff on to my garage work bench (luckily not until the end of the mash)... we had to let it leak, drain, scoop out some grain into a bowl to get at the valve and tighten before sparging...
I added rice hulls but with the lack of space could only fit about 1.25 pounds for 4 pounds of oats... sparge would slow down significantly then I would have to blow into my drain hose to get it untsuck (thank god I batch sparge) the full 2 pounds I bought would have made it much better.
I ended up with an OG of 1.060 when I was shooting for the established 55... so gravity was actually better than the norm for me.
I pitch my white labs vial of irish ale at about 9:30 last night. It's 7am now and no activity yet, but then again my house is only at about 65 where I keep my fermenter, I put a heating pad around it and am hoping it doesn't get too warm,
I'll post some pics when I get a chance.
Sorry to hear about the tun, maybe if you are real goo santa will bring you a 60 qt mash tun!
happy thanksgiving everyone!! the stout started chugging along yesterday and is bubbling like make this morning!!
Well I'm most definitely in. I think the plan is to brew this one next weekend. Am I behind the rest of the pack? Who all has gotten started on this already? Aside from Bill of course.
I havent yet also, still waiting for some supplies to come in that ive ordered.
I know I'm kinda late but I'm gonna give this brew a shot. I will out ingredients on Beer tools and break it down to a one or two gallon batch and I will probably brew it in a couple weeks. I need to get all my brewing done by mid december so i'll have som "recuperation beer" on hand after my surgury the end of december. Who needs pain killers (hic)?
DC
This is jumping the gun cuz I'm not even close to bottling. Haven't even brewed this recipe yet. But I was wondering what the plan was on CO2 pressure. I'll direct this to Brewchez being an English beer guy. I find that I like that style as well. How much do we carbonate this one?
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