Wanted - Chocolate Oatmeal Stout Recipe

[rimski]

Hi All

As topic reads I am after a decent recipe for a good Chocolate Oatmeal Stout.

The recipe needs to be All Grain and use Leaf Hops and not pellets.
Size around 23L after boil.

Cheers in Advance

[Invalid Stout]

As far as the recipe is concerned, hops are hops. 50g of whole hops are the same as 50g of pellets.

[dave-o]

I'd go something like:

3500g pale malt
1000g flaked barley
400g choc malt
500g oatmeal

Target or challenger - 30g full boil

[rimski]

Cheers

Have been given a recipe from a friend which is very similar to that Dave-o

I also had a feeling that pellets and leaf would be the same but I'm a vegetable gardener as well as a brewer so anything that isn't quite the "natural" form feels wrong to me

[rimski]

Would anyone use these oat or is it better to use a "more" expensive variety I can't see why but there may be a reason I am overlooking

http://www.supermarketownbrandguide.co. ... s&id=00131

Also should I roast them first @ 150c for an hr maybe

[Invalid Stout]

I also had a feeling that pellets and leaf would be the same but I'm a vegetable gardener as well as a brewer so anything that isn't quite the "natural" form feels wrong to me

Yes, but what I mean is that you can use any recipe. Whole hops and pellets are both 100% hops, so if you prefer whole hops you can use them even if the recipe specifies pellets. I prefer whole hops too.

[dave-o]

Would anyone use these oat or is it better to use a "more" expensive variety

That's what i use!

You can roast if you like. It will give more of a toasty flavour.

[smdjoachim]

rimski wrote:I also had a feeling that pellets and leaf would be the same but I'm a vegetable gardener as well as a brewer so anything that isn't quite the "natural" form feels wrong to me



Yes, but what I mean is that you can use any recipe. Whole hops and pellets are both 100% hops, so if you prefer whole hops you can use them even if the recipe specifies pellets. I prefer whole hops too.

If the recipes says leaf hops and you use pellet hops you should use 20% less pellets in weight.
If the recipe says pellets and you use leaf hops you must use 20% more in weight.
This is because the manufacturing of these pellets create a better bittering (Alpha acid )extraction value.
When you boil the leaf hops you get around around 20% extraction of these alpha acids.
When you boil hop pellets you get around 30% extraction .
http://www.hopstoyou.com/howtouse.html for more info