has anyone tried the brewers best oatmeal stout kit

[chazbone]

11 days since brewday and a hydrometer reading still is around 1.029. Temperature on my bucket has been 67-69 degrees.

 

[Newsman]

Add amylase???

 

[chazbone]

Add amylase???

Thought about that, or adding yeast nutrient, or even re-pitching. Though all of those things have been tried by the various people in this thread.

 

[DrunkleJon]

This recipe seems to stick around there. Honestly I would just let it finish there and enjoy it. I left a couple bottles for more than a year and it never overcarbed. Just ended up being a nice bodied stout. Probably my best extract batch too.

 

[Dusty1029]

Hey guys,
Neighbor and I are new to this. On our second batch. We did the oatmeal stout. We overlooked thr directions about transferring after 6 days and it's now day 14 (like last beer). Is it a lost cause, or can it be saved?
Thanks

 

[RM-MN]

Hey guys,
Neighbor and I are new to this. On our second batch. We did the oatmeal stout. We overlooked thr directions about transferring after 6 days and it's now day 14 (like last beer). Is it a lost cause, or can it be saved?
Thanks

You didn't transfer the beer to secondary??? Best thing you could do for the beer is not transfer it to secondary. You could take a hydrometer reading now and again in about 2-3 day and if it doesn't change you could bottle it.....or you could wait another week or 2. Stouts like time to settle out the harsh flavors. I bottle mine and then ignore it for 3 to 6 months before drinking it. It gets better with time.

 

[tracer bullet]

Agreed, "these days" we've learned it's just fine to not transfer it, preferred actually.

 

[Dusty1029]

You didn't transfer the beer to secondary??? Best thing you could do for the beer is not transfer it to secondary. You could take a hydrometer reading now and again in about 2-3 day and if it doesn't change you could bottle it.....or you could wait another week or 2. Stouts like time to settle out the harsh flavors. I bottle mine and then ignore it for 3 to 6 months before drinking it. It gets better with time.

Yeah. We forgot to transfer to the secondary. Neighbor ended up calling the brew guy and he said to either leave it, and have more solids come bottle day, or transfer it and reduce solids by bottle day. Something like that. So we transferred it. Brew day reading with 9%. Today ended up being 7.5%. We are gonna bottle on the 16th, and then not touch them until Christmas.

 

[RM-MN]

Yeah. We forgot to transfer to the secondary. Neighbor ended up calling the brew guy and he said to either leave it, and have more solids come bottle day, or transfer it and reduce solids by bottle day. Something like that. So we transferred it. Brew day reading with 9%. Today ended up being 7.5%. We are gonna bottle on the 16th, and then not touch them until Christmas.

Next time you brew don't bother transferring the beer. You are more likely to introduce oxygen by doing so and oxidized beer isn't as good as beer with a little more sediment in the bottle. I try to avoid sucking up the sediment when transferring to the bottling bucket, then leave the beer sit in that bucket for a period of time to let any sediment that did get transferred settle out again. That only takes a few minutes. I will often have trouble seeing the sediment in the bottle because the amount is so small.

 

[Dusty1029]

Next time you brew don't bother transferring the beer. You are more likely to introduce oxygen by doing so and oxidized beer isn't as good as beer with a little more sediment in the bottle. I try to avoid sucking up the sediment when transferring to the bottling bucket, then leave the beer sit in that bucket for a period of time to let any sediment that did get transferred settle out again. That only takes a few minutes. I will often have trouble seeing the sediment in the bottle because the amount is so small.

Copy that. Thanks for the info. Yall have a great day.
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