This yeast is nuts. Or maybe it's because I built up my water from RO. Using a blow off there was not much action when I went to bed at the 7 hour mark. But this morning at the 17 hour mark it was a steady flow of CO2. Not really bubbling just flowing. Same thing tonight. I've never experience such a fermentation and I've used some Belgians and Hefe yeasts.
Jean was just on Steal This Beer and said they use Thomas Fawcett Oat malt in all of their oat hoppy beers. Ironically I just bought 10 lbs of it last week. Gonna brew an IPA like Alien Church with it this weekend.
Cool podcast. Lots of good info about SaisonHands as well. I wonder if 30-40% oats applies to HopHands as well.
Oat malt & flaked oats are not the same. No way theres 30-40% oat malt in there!
In where, HopHands? I dont think so either. But Jean said in the interview that their beers have "up to 30-40% Oat Malt". Its not us speculating, its the brewer making that point. He didnt say exactly which beers have that much oats but I was speculating it could be the milkshakes.
I have the Omnipollo milkshake recipe and it's 70% pils, 20% wheat, & 10% oats. I'm sure TH changed it up because Jean made it sounds like it's mostly oats. My latest hophandsish-whatever followed that bill but I split the pils with half pale.
I'm curious to try oat malt in this recipe now though along with fermenting cooler.
Is everyone using whirlfloc in this Hop Hand recipe? If so, what is the purpose? I have never used it as I thought it was used to prevent boilovers in boil kettles with limited headroom. After re-reading this thread I saw Coff mention he brewed a batch without and it was like mud.
I have the Omnipollo milkshake recipe and it's 70% pils, 20% wheat, & 10% oats. I'm sure TH changed it up because Jean made it sounds like it's mostly oats. My latest hophandsish-whatever followed that bill but I split the pils with half pale.
I'm curious to try oat malt in this recipe now though along with fermenting cooler.
I love that article and I love all of the hate for the flour in beer and "new" tactics. I'm working on a Alien Church recipe. I will share if you are interested.
chlehb: Oat malt will provide similar contributions to head retention and body, but also some additional flavor you get from its malting process. Flaked products tend to be more flavor neutral than their malted counterparts.
ryancrook: I highly doubt there is any flour in this recipe - the use of flower for the milkshake style beer is to make that beer look as much like a milkshake as possible (along with using pectins for haze). As seen in this thread, many people have gotten their beers to have that TH look with just oats/chloride/dry hops.
ryancrook: I highly doubt there is any flour in this recipe - the use of flower for the milkshake style beer is to make that beer look as much like a milkshake as possible (along with using pectins for haze). As seen in this thread, many people have gotten their beers to have that TH look with just oats/chloride/dry hops.
So if I'm using Thomas facuett oat malt what or how much should I substitute.
I'm a bit stumped on why this is so bitter
I actually did FWH this beer.
Getting to 85°C (185°F) for the whirlpool addition wouldn't have taken too long either, my immersion chiller is pretty fast. I'll have to read up on that DH article!
edit: Interesting article! As this beer is low IBU and my hops were stored lose than ideally (higher percentage of oxidized alpha acids), I can well imagine that the heavy DH increased my IBUs. However, the hydrometer sample I tried was already very bitter and the bitterness is rather harsh, not smooth as described in the article.
So could I use like
5lbs of pale ale malt
4lbs of Thomas facuett oat malt
1.5lbs of flaked oats
Reminds me of an old Tom Waits song
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