Chocolate & oatmeal stout

[Tricky]

This is a modified version of Dave Line guinness stout recipe, with a little experimentation.
Its lovely and ill be brewing it again very soon as my supply of it is going fast...

Stout 5 gallon

pale malt 3410g
flaked barley 975g
roasted barley 485
oatmeal 500g

northern brewer hops 38g

total liquor 35.6L
mash liquor 12.1L

Mash shedule
66 degrees, 151 f, 90 mins

Boil 90 mins

2tbsb coacoa added at start of boil

[dave-o]

Is that 2 tablespoons of cocoa?

I'm surprised you can taste any chocolate. I have used a whole tub of green and blacks cocoa in the boil, and could hardly taste it at all.

[Tricky]

It's there, just a nice hint. Maybe the oatmeal helps?

[mysterio]

I think I used two tubs and I had trouble picking out chocolate! I got the cocoa bitterness but it was lacking the other flavours which make up the whole chocolate taste.

I would highly recommend you pick up a chocolate essence. Add this to your pint glass full of the finished stout with a ml syringe and find how much chocolate flavour. Then scale this up to your finished batch.

Oats are great to use in beer. If you want to taste them, then stick them in the oven and toast them for 20 - 30 minutes until they start smelling great. Then throw them in your mash. They give an awesome flavour.

[SMASH3R]

Oats are great to use in beer. If you want to taste them, then stick them in the oven and toast them for 20 - 30 minutes until they start smelling great. Then throw them in your mash. They give an awesome flavour.

This sounds like a good thing to experiment with. I love an oat stout.

[Tricky]

Oats are great to use in beer. If you want to taste them, then stick them in the oven and toast them for 20 - 30 minutes until they start smelling great. Then throw them in your mash. They give an awesome flavour.

This sounds like a good thing to experiment with. I love an oat stout.

Sounds like a good idea.