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?
Oatmeal Stout with Ringwood?
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Oatmeal Stout with Ringwood?
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)
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)