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Seven Bridges Cooperative sells a recipe kit for a 7 grain beer that includes at least 3/4 lbs of quinoa. They don't malt the quinoa, but they do boil and mash it. Their recipe calls for boiling quinoa (with buckwheat and millet), then mashing, starting with 15 minutes at a low temp 122-126 F...

Hi, I haven't gotten into technical culturing, but I have used yeast from commercial beers to brew 5 gallon batches. I have done this with pretty good results using Deschutes beers. I make a small batch of wort with 6 oz water and 1 tablespoon DME. Boil the wort, cool to 75 deg. Flame the lip...

Good thinking. I suppose you could put the oats in a different grain bag than your other grains while you're steeping. That way the gooey oats wouldn't cut off the extraction from the other grains. But if you only have one grain bag, you're probably fine just putting all the grains in together...

With a five gallon kettle just boil as much as you can, then top off to five gallons with filtered (or boiled and cooled) water. Steep your grains at around 155 deg for 30 minutes. I love oatmeal stouts. But I've never had good luck brewing a decent one. Oats are hard to work with. To use them...

Hi Quigsnshad, That seems like a fine amount of hops for an Irish Stout. Your IBU calculations may be low if you used a program like Beersmith and were doing an extract batch with a concentrated boil. Beersmith calculations are based on an assumption that a high concentration of malt extract...