jester5120

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I'm doing a fairly big stout in the next few days and i'm not sure what kind of mash temp i want. I absolutely HATE thin light bodied stouts so i threw in a pound of oats and a pound of chocolate wheat into my recipe. I also want to try to keep this stout fairly high in alcohol hopefully hovering right around 9%. To do that beersmith is saying i need to mash around 150-152 but it also says that'll give me a light body. My question is will the oats and wheat compensate for the lighter body?

Here are some options i have if it helps generate answers:
1) Mash a little higher and don't worry about the alcohol
2) Add more Oats
3) Add the 3/4lb of crystal 20 that's just laying around my house to bump up the og.