Today's brew was an oatmeal stout. I brewed one a couple of years ago and loved it. Seeing as Autumn is upon us I thought it was about that time of year to fire it up again!
The recipe:
Oatmeal stout
Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (L): 42.00 Wort Size (L): 42.00
Total Grain (kg): 7.75
Anticipated OG: 1.044 Plato: 10.91
Anticipated EBC: 89.1
Anticipated IBU: 39.9
Brewhouse Efficiency: 80 %
Wort Boil Time: 75 Minutes
Grain/Extract/Sugar
% Amount Name Origin Potential EBC
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64.5 5.00 kg. Pale Malt Marris Otter Great Britain 1.038 6
12.9 1.00 kg. Flaked Barley Great Britain 1.032 5
6.5 0.50 kg. Chocolate Malt Great Britain 1.029 940
6.5 0.50 kg. Roasted Barley Great Britain 1.029 1523
9.7 0.75 kg. Flaked Oats Great Britain 1.033 5
Hops
Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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35.00 g. Topaz Pellet 16.20 39.9 First WH
Yeast
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S-04
I used Asda smart price rolled oats for this, at 57p a kilo can't go wrong!
On with the dirty stuff
The grain bill
Thought I'd show you my bottom
And a better picture of my immersion whirlpool chiller
Doughing in
Sneaky peek at the mash resting...
...and again after 90 minutes
Runoff
Sparge. I really must get a better sparge system!
After a 15 minute vigorous boil, a 60 minute rolling boil ensues.
Chill man
Cleaning the mash tun as we go
The other side of the wort chiller
Yeast slurry from my Allingham Patch brew
Mmmmmmm, black gold!
Leftovers
Four hours later
40 litres collected at 1.043 so still some dialling in to do on the system. My mate has got some black cherries soon to be ripe in his garden so 20 litres of this will be secondaried on a quantity of them for a period of time. Anyone have any offerings on a good way to do a black cherry oatmeal stout?
All the best
Paul
