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When I saw "Naked Golden Oats" on Barley Bottom's site, I naturally entered a state of considerable arousal. I like "nutty" beers, but am not keen of those with chocolate or burnt malts.
So this is going to be a complete shot in the dark and it goes like this:
Pale Malt 4500gms
Imperial Malt 1000gms
Golden Naked Oats 1000gms
Pale Crystal Malt 300gms

Fuggle 50gms 90mins
EKG 45gms 90 mins
Fuggle 15gms 15 mins
EKG 30gms 15 mins
EKG 20 gms steep
EKG 15gms in FV during maturation
Target OG=1.053 at 75% Æž , EBU=41, EBC=29

You might notice that this generally follows with my normal tradition of "whole bag brewing".
At this stage I am not looking for subtle, I want to learn the effect of ingredients!

A more leisurely start this morning, the HLT is up to 80C at 08:00.
Here's the unclothed beauties, I can take no responsibility for you excitement...


They taste quite nice like this as well!

The salts for the three stages, mash, sparge and boil:


The Grains and salts in the mash tun, it's a lot less full today!


Underlet 16.5L, it is just a quick stir to get an even mash, no lumps..


The return/sparge arm right at the beginning of RIMS:


And it's all going nicely at 66C, with the precision engineered wooden blocks holding the arm just above the wort:


pH is ok,


I am now going to leave this for two or three hours to see what that does to the efficiency.

Nice one.....that reminds me....I need to place a BB order today.

Can you just mash those oats "as is" with no crushing or cooking or anything?

adm wrote:Can you just mash those oats "as is" with no crushing or cooking or anything?

That is my question too, as I got a bag from Paul a few weeks back, I might try soaking them in 66c water and see what a Teaspoon full does before I throw a load in a brew.

I am in the process of finding out!
I will let you know the results in a few hours....

I saw the oats on BB and thought of an oatmeal stout straight away! A link i read offshore the other week on oats

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/75-100-oat-beer-96795/

Ha! I could have done a beta glucanase rest on the way up!

Interesting thread pants, shame they got a bit snotty with each other.

Hole Nut 2
Well, it's a beautiful day out there, rather like Grantchester Meadows until I started up the hedge trimmer....

I don't think I got any two stroke oil in the brew, and SWMBO is tidying up all the cuttings while I make the beer and do this post! (listening to....you've guessed it!).
I gave it three full hours before adding 16.5L from the HLT. Before adding sparge water:


Re-circulate for 10 minutes, then drain:


Not as clear as usual - the oats? (this one is out of focus, but you get the idea ):


Here's the hops floating on the first drain, hob on, waiting for the second sparge.


Smells wonderful!!

I ended up with 15L from the first drain, so I upped the second sparge water to 17.5L. I am looking for about 33L pre-boil. Lose 3L in boil, 3L in hops and dead space, leaving 27L.
I use this as a target most times now as it will fill a corney, a mini-keg and a few bottles.
(and now the 10 minute extended version...to be followed by an encounter with a Pict)

RIMS it up to 77C for mashout:


and second sparge into boiler:


This time the runoff is clearer, though the shot was tricky due to water vapour!

The grains in the tun as the wort drains out:


An oat , somewhat swollen but still whole:


I tasted it, somewhat nutty but bland - I think I have got the goodness out!

Looking down at the boiler as the last runnings go in:


It's on the boil now so I am posting this before I lose it like yesterday....

Hole Nut 3

Outside it's Goodbye Blue Sky , and I'm on the last leg...

After 75 minutes its hops and protofloc in, wait 15 minutes, boiler off, wait to 90C, last hops (apart from some dry later), wait to 80C, re-circulating cooling down to 25C.

This is a shot I have been meaning to get for some time, just after reaching 25C and after removal of the re-circulation return pipe:

The cold break material quickly blooms up and then very quickly settles.

30 minutes later and its drain by gravity:


I ended up with 24.5L at 1.050, Bx=12.2, rather less and lower than planned but not too bad, nice and clear afterall .


I had 4L loss in hops and dead space instead of 3L. Graham's Beer Engine tells me this is 64.3% efficient - maybe I didn't get all the goodness out of the naughty little oats?