2008 BKB Winter Brew - Oatmeal Stout
OK.......I'm down.
I just wentr to my brew shop and bought a crap load of hops to get me through. EKG was one of them and I'm good to go.
December 1 is the first free day I have, so it will be done then.
Notes will be taken and posted upon completion.
Good luck everyone!!
brewing it up this tuesday!!! just found out I get off work at noon so I'll be firing up the kettle with 10 gallons!!
just a curiosity before I go and buy everything tomorrow morning... I ran the numbers and made a report for both five and ten gallons on beersmith and both times came up with an SRM of almost 50... granted stout should be dark, but that's a far cry from what brechez posted. Am I missing something or are we a little heavy on the dark malts??
I may also be speaking from inexperience, but isn't 2 pounds of oats on the high side? I don't really know, and while grocery shopping today I bought enough quaker for 10 gallons anyway, but just want to make sure.
The SRM is tough because it depends on the Lovibond of the roasted of each roasted malt in whatever software package you used vs. what they were in the package I used. (I suppose I could pull that out if its necessary).
However, I think we are fine with the roasted stuff. A dry stout would have up to 1bl of balck patent. I used 0.5 pound of the stuff in my last brew and there was definately room for more.
I personally feel that we can all make adjustments to these community brews. If someone wants to brew this up but knows from experience that they don't like 3/4 of roasted barley but they can deal with 1/2, they should maket he change.
2lbs of oats in pushing the upper limit I think too. But having brewed an oatmeal stout for several years, I keep pushing the oats up. I didn't put it in the recipe, but some rice hulls would be a good idea. That's also why I cut back on the oats for the extract version, 2 lbs of oaty starch would ruin an extract only brew.
I'll put a seperate post on that to be sure people see it! And I'll edit the original recipe.
RICE HULLS PEOPLE!
I failed to include it in the original recipe, but I just edited it in.
When using more than one pound of flaked oats, rice hulls serve as an insurance policy against a stuck sparge. I use between 0.5 to 1lb of hulls when using 2 lbs of oats. I haven't ever had a stuck sparge, but I also have never done an oatmeal stout with out the hulls.
Also as an all-grainer, be sure to hit that mash out temp. This will lower the viscosity of the oaty wort and also help keep things flowing.
Sorry for the omission, but I hadn't even thought to mention it when we put the recipe together.
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.