Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

[delcosansgluten]

Hello everyone. For my next beer I am going to brew a Chocolate Oatmeal Stout. Here is where I got the base recipe from - Double Chocolate Oatmeal Stout - Partial mash - Gluten Free Homebrewin.

I am going to make the following changes:

Remove: wild rice, molasses, candy sugar & maltodextrin
Add: dark rice malt, dark roasted millet

The recipe calls for manual roasting of oats, millet and wild rice. To save time, I plan on only roasting the oats and using dark rice malt and dark roasted millet instead. Once brew day wraps up, I'll follow up with more pictures.

 

[delcosansgluten]

 

[delcosansgluten]

Last Saturday I got around to brewing the double chocolate oatmeal stout. Very fun first experience with roasting oats, brown rice syrup and sorghum. Tasting the raw rice syrup was like super sweet, maple syrup like almost. Sorghum did have a nice sweetness but I noticed the twang everyone mentions. On Dec 21 I add 2 vanilla beans to the Fermonster and then one week after I bottle. The Lallemand Nottingham Ale yeast is nothing short of incredible.

 

[tracer bullet]

Looks interesting, and delicious. Please follow up someday with your impressions of it and what you'd change, if anything.

 

[delcosansgluten]

will do! i try to do grain to glass threads.

 

[delcosansgluten]

So i tried one of these about 10 days ago and the taste was very harsh. Particularly the vanilla and coffee flavors. I'm going to let these condition for a month before i try them again but harshness aside, I didn't enjoy the syrupiness even though i couldnt taste a sorghum twang.

 

[glutarded-chris]

The stout-ish brew I made that is probably similar to yours took 4 months to hit its stride if I remember correctly.

 

[delcosansgluten]

Here is a glass shot, very carby.

 

[Silly Yak]

FWIW that's a really old recipe and in gluten free brewing that really makes a huge difference. A good trick on the GFHB website for recipes is to look in the URL for "recipeid=***" with the *** a number based on when it was posted. For instance that double chocolate oatmeal stout is recipeid=63 and GFHB has a total of 283 recipes posted. Also it's using this super old HBT thread from 2010 for reference: www.homebrewtalk.com/f78/gluten-free-double-chocolate-oatmeal-stout-165489/. That's before any dedicated gluten free malthouses existed in the US and the reason you see all sorts of weird ingredients and syrups. Anyways hopefully time heals and the harshness subsides. Cheers!

 

[delcosansgluten]

With only a handful of these left I am happy to say that after 2.5 months, the harshness of the vanilla and the boozy alcohol flavors subsided and resulted in a delicious, roasty, vanilla, chocolaty and coffee stout.