Oatmeal Stout with Ringwood?

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Oatmeal Stout with Ringwood?

Post by Barley Water » Tue Aug 06, 2013 7:00 pm

I get involved in a couple of contests a year. Because of capacity contraints I need to plan well in advance if I want to have a bunch of entries. I also like to use a package of yeast at least a couple times. For the winter 2014 contest I decided that I would focus on English beers because I just don't brew enough of them and they are my favs. Anyway I am planning to make 6 British beers as follows:

Fullers yeast: Bitter (similar to London Pride) and then a Brown Porter (like London Porter)
London Ale yeast (WLP013): Northern British Brown ale and then an English IPA
Ringwood yeast: Oatmeal Stout and an ESB (similar to Old Thumper).

I am pretty comfortable with those selections except for the Oatmeal Stout. Do you guys think Ringwood will turn out a decent Oatmeal stout? I guess I could make the stout with the Fuller's strain and perhaps do an American hop bomb with the second generation of the Ringwood (similar to say Dogfish Head 60 and I do have the hops for the job). I'm looking for relatively low attenuation and of course the nice English esters in the stout; what do you guys think?
Drinking:Saison (in bottles), Belgian Dubbel (in bottles), Oud Bruin (in bottles), Olde Ale (in bottles),
Abbey Triple (in bottles), Munich Helles, Best Bitter (TT Landlord clone), English IPA
Conditioning: Traditional bock bier, CAP
Fermenting: Munich Dunkel
Next up: Bitter (London Pride like), ESB
So many beers to make, so little time (and cold storage space)

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