Oatmeal Stout Best Laid Plans [Oatmeal Stout]

[HBrew71]

Subscribed.

 

[heliumbro]

Subscribed and lining up my ingredients as this will be my next brew!

 

[heliumbro]

Just mashed in! It won't be ready for the BSB in Merrickville, but I am looking forward to this stout.

 

[PitchnGrin]

Got my first stout in the pail and just pitched the yeast. The OG sample tastes great! I plan on letting this sit until football season.

Cheers and thanks for the recipe.

 

[Challenger440]

This beer has been on my to do list for quite some time now but can see the light at the end of the tunnel to this guys brew day. Has anyone done this with WLP001? I will be doing a porter in a couple of weeks and was hoping to wash the yeast and use it for this.

 

[GuitarGumption]

I know this is an old thread, but any thoughts on how adding say, 2 lbs marris Otter to the grain bill to bump it up to 5.5% or so would affect the beer?

 

[ampsman]

Anyone added a wee bit o' vanilla to this one?

 

[beowulf]

I'm actually considering brewing this tomorrow....with a bit of vanilla, oddly enough. I guess we'll see what happens. Should be the perfect brew to help whittle down that 50# sack of munich!

 

[beowulf]

Ok, so I'm a couple weeks behind on this, but I'm heating the mash water now. Brewing 11gals.... will split it in half and do one half with cocoa and vanilla, the other half regular stout...although I'm sure this is no "regular" stout

 

[smallbatch]

Made this beer a couple months ago now and just started in to my second keg of it. I haven't tasted it too critically, but I'd say it's a solid oatmeal stout. I don't recall exactly what - if anything - I changed of the original recipe, but I don't think it was much. You can check out my recipe and narrative if you're interested here: http://smallbatchbrew.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/oatmeal-stout-brew-2/

 

[ThatsGoodHead]

I was looking for a good oatmeal Stout recipe and found this! Thanks for posting this as it got some amazing reviews after reading all the pages. I will be making this very soon. Cheers.

 

[booherbg]

Brewing this up today. Modified a bit for what I had on hand, plus a partial mash:

• Assuming 55% efficiency for me (roughly 1.047 or so, but I'm not confident in my efficiency level yet)
• 4lb Maris Otter
• 3lb Maris Otter Liquid Extract
• 2lb Vienna Malt
• 1.5lb 100% Whole Rolled Oats ("Instant" from local grocery)
• 10oz Chocolate Malt
• 10oz Roasted Barley
• .7oz Columbus Hops @ 60min (35 IBU)
• BRY-97 Dry Yeast
• --> 167F Strike Temp, 156F Mash Temp

I'm also using Bru'n water's "Malty Black" profile, with distilled water:

• .2 grams/gallon gypsum
• .3 grams/gallon Calcium Chloride
• .3 grams/gallon Chalk/Calcium Carbonate
• .3 grams/gallon Baking Soda
• --> 8lb grain * 1.5 quart/lb ==> 3 gallons mash water
• --> .6 grams gypsum in mash water
• --> .9 grams Calcium Chloride,Chalk,Baking Soda
• --> Recommended no gypsum or Baking Soda in sparge water (but scaled the rest appropriately)
• --> Mash PH 5.7 // 82 Residual Alkalinity

Update: Batch tasted delicious going into the fermenter. Final OG: 1.049 (I got about 55% efficiency). May want to mix the grain up, I had a definite "layer" of oats in my bag (i do "brew in a bag) which may have prevented some of the lower layers (dark roasts) from being completely sparged. Oh well, super excited!

 

[Nico93]

wow, i did two weeks ago a munich stout that is very very close to this one!

some one got attenuation problems? munich base + 20 min at 158f (forgot to change pid settings!) and 40min at 154,5 , og 1046 fg 1021, 7,5gal and 3packs of us05
i'm a little bit "scared" of this high fg!

 

[Ollie8000]

Brewing this right now. Only changes are CTZ for Galena and WY1098 as the yeast.

I've been excited to try this for a little while, thanks for sharing it.