My first soon to be brew!

[adubschavy]

Alright guys! im about to make my first brew! I have yet to order the products (waiting on a paycheck), but this is what im thinking the recipe will be:

1 lb. of quaker oats steeped for 30 minutes
3 lbs. munton & Fison Dark DME
3 lbs. "Briess dried malt" bavarian wheat

1oz. cascade @ 60 min
1oz. crystal @ 30 min
1oz. saaz @ 15 min

and 8 oz of brown sugar for good measure

What do you guys think?

 

[mountainbrewdude]

What are you going for exactly? Get flaked oats at your lhbs instead.

 

[vitrael]

Oats need to be mashed to extract sugars from them. This means temperature control is important and you probably want to be in the ~150-152 range depending on the target style for 60 minutes. However, oats cannot mash themselves because they don't contain the correct enzymes. You need to add base malt e.g. 2-row malted barley to the mash to get conversion.

What style are you trying to brew? Is this some kind of brown ale or an oatmeal stout? If it's a stout, you probably want to get a little roasted barley into that recipe.

I highly recommend you look at some other recipes for whatever style you want to brew before continuing. If you want to go forward with an oatmeal stout for example, keep in mind your first batch will be partial mash. That's bold! Most people start with extract or extract + specialty grain recipes. Make sure you have enough proper-sized pots to do a stove-top partial mash before you move forward.

+1 on getting flaked oats over instant oatmeal. You can probably find flaked oats for cheaper than at the LHBS at a bulk section in the grocery store.

 

[adubschavy]

Im not sure what I want. i just want a good beer. I'm kind of experimenting and im pretty sure I'm going to enjoy whatever i make.

I guess im not going to be making a stout since all my malts are DME. I have no idea how mashing is even done yet.

Will doing a flaked oat steep do any difference at all?

I posted this to see what you guys think of the hop schedule and the overall. I have read that cascade hops as a bittering hop isn't usually ideal. I might change it to 1/2 oz cascade + 1/2 oz crystal @ 60, and the same thing @ 30.

 

[badhabit]

Looks like you have pretty much created a dark American Wheat. I would suggest looking at a number of existing wheat recipies and duplicating one of those for the first time. There are a bunch in the recipes section on this site.