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Original posted this in the recipe thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/double-chocolate-oatmeal-snout-126638/
But I think I might get a faster response if I posted this here.
Hi everyone. Im a new brewer and wanted to try out my first partial with this recipe. I think I might of done something wrong because my OG was only 1.029. I thought I was doing everything okay because beersmith was giving me a OG of 1.055 when I punched in all the ingredients. Heres what I used.
4.4lb dark DME
1.10lb Oat flakes
1lb Caramel malt
.75 Chocolate malt
.5 Roasted barley
2 oz Fuggles
2 grams of Irish moss
7 oz cocoa powder
Used a few cheese cloth bags to wrap the oats and barley up and put it in about 7L(1.8G) water at 150F for one hour. Sparged it in about 2L of water for 10 minutes. Added the two worts together. Then added my 2Kg of DME just before boil. Brought to a rolling boil and added the hops and boiled it for an hour. Last ten minutes of boil added the Irish moss and cocoa. Cooled and topped off the primary to 23L(5G) then added yeast from a coopers stout can I had.
If anyone can point out where I went wrong that would be great. Did I not use enough water on the steep/mash and there fore didnt get enough convertion?
Or was I to lite on the DME.
If I was a bit lite on the DME can I still add some more. I have kilogram of Amber DME I could still throw in there. Could I just boil it in 1L of water, cool it down and then toss it in the primary. I pitched the yeast last night and this morning the airlock is already bubbling away.
Thanks for any help in advance. This sounds like an awesome recipe and I was really looking forward to a thick chocolate stout.
But I think I might get a faster response if I posted this here.
Hi everyone. Im a new brewer and wanted to try out my first partial with this recipe. I think I might of done something wrong because my OG was only 1.029. I thought I was doing everything okay because beersmith was giving me a OG of 1.055 when I punched in all the ingredients. Heres what I used.
4.4lb dark DME
1.10lb Oat flakes
1lb Caramel malt
.75 Chocolate malt
.5 Roasted barley
2 oz Fuggles
2 grams of Irish moss
7 oz cocoa powder
Used a few cheese cloth bags to wrap the oats and barley up and put it in about 7L(1.8G) water at 150F for one hour. Sparged it in about 2L of water for 10 minutes. Added the two worts together. Then added my 2Kg of DME just before boil. Brought to a rolling boil and added the hops and boiled it for an hour. Last ten minutes of boil added the Irish moss and cocoa. Cooled and topped off the primary to 23L(5G) then added yeast from a coopers stout can I had.
If anyone can point out where I went wrong that would be great. Did I not use enough water on the steep/mash and there fore didnt get enough convertion?
Or was I to lite on the DME.
If I was a bit lite on the DME can I still add some more. I have kilogram of Amber DME I could still throw in there. Could I just boil it in 1L of water, cool it down and then toss it in the primary. I pitched the yeast last night and this morning the airlock is already bubbling away.
Thanks for any help in advance. This sounds like an awesome recipe and I was really looking forward to a thick chocolate stout.