Akneebreeated
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My first attempt at an oatmeal stout, I must admit that I have no idea what I am doing here either. I never have mashed and don't really know what all is involved there so all I did was basically steep my flaked oats with my specialty grain. Recipe is simple enough, 7 lbs DME, 1lb roasted barley and 1.5 lbs flaked oats. I steeped barley grain and oats at 150 F for 45 minutes, then did my full boil and added DME and hops accordingly. All went fine, pitched yeast and waited about 10 days to rack to secondary. Bubbling had seemingly stopped, while racking I noticed an excessive amount of sludge in the bottom. Basically I lost a gallon to this trubeish slime substance....
My OG was on target and the beer tasted GREAT at racking, did me not mashing cause all this slime? I should also mention that after racking bubbling picked up again in secondary, perhaps I just didn't give enough time to ferment....
My OG was on target and the beer tasted GREAT at racking, did me not mashing cause all this slime? I should also mention that after racking bubbling picked up again in secondary, perhaps I just didn't give enough time to ferment....