Oatmeal Stout Yooper's Oatmeal Stout

[2BeerSpeer]

I believe I got Yooper's seal of approval with the barrel aged version of this....made a fairly new homebrewer proud!

 

[Yooper]

I believe I got Yooper's seal of approval with the barrel aged version of this....made a fairly new homebrewer proud!

Oh, it was great! Bob loved it especially, and we fought over the last bottle.

 

[afr0byte]

I know it's not traditional for this style, but do you think it would be acceptable to bitter this beer with a small amount of nugget instead?

They should be fine. Anything with clean bitterness should be good. I happened to have used Magnum.

 

[libeerty]

Just ordered this recipe off of Brewmasters Warehouse. Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout was the beer that got me into beer, and it still remains one of my favorite styles, but for whatever reason, have never made a real one. I'm not modifying a thing, except that I am doing it BIAB, can't wait! I'll update with pics.

 

[GotPushrods]

Yooper, you da woman!!!

I tapped this last weekend and I'm afraid it might not live much longer. 6 weeks old and amazing. I find myself going for this after dinner far more than anything else... I'm eerily drawn to it. I even went back to my brew log to confirm there is no coffee in here. You wouldn't know it.

The keyword here is balance. It's only a 1.017 4.5% beer, but it's got it all.... without anything overpowering something else. Some roast, some bitterness, chocolate, some coffee, a little malt, and about 1 sip in every 5 pints -- chocolate covered raspberry. Who knows, I love it!

Keezer-top glamour shot time...

 

[Gear101]

This is a great beer, but the second time I made it I put a V-bean in it, I personally would not do that again, I'll just brew it as posted.

 

[Reaver]

Yep... need to throw in my props! I did 10gal's of this to give away from Christmas and EVERYONE commented on how awesome this recipe was. I actually only got 2 bottles of it myself for "Quality Control" and I GUARANTEE I'll be making it again. Got my order from Brewmaster's Warehouse and it was easily done. Can't wait for the weather to break to do this again.

 

[homebrewhaha]

Kinda pissed at my LHBS. I sent an email in advance with the grain bill for a partial mash version of this recipe to make sure they had everything and specifically called out the pale chocolate as I know that's an important part of the recipe.

I show up and "we don't stock pale chocolate," also subbed roasted barley for black barley (I went along with it anyway since I really wanted to get this batch started). Just annoying to plan in advance and then get another story when you show up in person and you're semi-committed.

They also don't regularly stock 1335, which I half expected so that's fine, so I went with S04 instead. That part didn't bother me as much as the grain bill.

I know all this is not that big a deal but I wish I could have gotten closer to the original recipe which is clearly something that has been refined and had some thought put into it.

Anyway, /rant and thanks Yoop for the recipe, I'll let you know how my bastardized version comes out.

 

[nickmv]

I don't blame you there.

I'd be pissed if my LHBS just subbed out grains without asking. That's a pretty ****ty thing to do, but is also something that I've heard of happening before.

In the future, make it clear to them that you do NOT want substitutions, or else you'd like to be asked first. Also specify milled vs unmilled. My LHBS mills the grain if you don't specify -- something I don't like at all.

 

[LoloMT7]

I'm going to cry when my keg of this stout runs out... SOOOOOOOO GOOD!!!!

 

[2BeerSpeer]

Oh, it was great! Bob loved it especially, and we fought over the last bottle.

I'm gonna get to brew this at a local brewery Sunday...super excited!

 

[davebstock]

I'm going to be doing an oatmeal stout for my next brew. I was set on the Samuel Smith all grain recipe but this one is getting great reviews. Has anyone made both or would suggest one over the other?

 

[homebrewhaha]

I'm gonna get to brew this at a local brewery Sunday...super excited!

Cool! Which brewery?

Brewed it (at home on my stove...wahh) last night and hit my numbers, sample tasted great!

 

[2BeerSpeer]

Some friends of mine opened Skull Camp Brewery here in NC and let me be a guest brewer every now and then....if feels pretty cool to be able to send friends up there to try my beer! I'm fortunate enough that one of the owners is the one that got me started homebrewing and is confident in the quality of beer I make.

 

[adamg8504]

Would using 60L instead of 80L make a huge difference? I've got 60 on hand...

 

[Yooper]

Would using 60L instead of 80L make a huge difference? I've got 60 on hand...

No, not really. The 80L is a little more "toffee" while 60L is a little more caramel, but I think it would work just fine. The crystal malt is there to provide a depth to the flavor, as well as some sweetness to counter the roasted flavor. 60L would be a good sub for the 80L.

 

[adamg8504]

Awesome. Thank you for the great reply. I plan on brewing this on Saturday and would like to make a starter but I've never done a starter before. Is it really necessary if you're using dry yeast?

 

[homebrewhaha]

Awesome. Thank you for the great reply. I plan on brewing this on Saturday and would like to make a starter but I've never done a starter before. Is it really necessary if you're using dry yeast?

I pitched my dry yeast right into the fermentor. This beer is a low enough gravity that you shouldn't need a starter.

 

[adamg8504]

I pitched my dry yeast right into the fermentor. This beer is a low enough gravity that you shouldn't need a starter.

That's what I was thinking but Yooper said "Yes!" to the yeast starter so I wasn't sure how much of a difference it would make.

 

[Yooper]

That's what I was thinking but Yooper said "Yes!" to the yeast starter so I wasn't sure how much of a difference it would make.

For liquid yeast, a starter should be done. For dry, it's not necessary.

 

[homebrewhaha]

For liquid yeast, a starter should be done. For dry, it's not necessary.

Yoop do you always do a starter with liquid or is there a certain gravity that you use as a cutoff point?

 

[adamg8504]

Yooper: Are there any strains of yeast you have or would consider substituting for the wyeast 1335?

 

[D_Nyholm]

Yoop do you always do a starter with liquid or is there a certain gravity that you use as a cutoff point?

I think liquid yeasts always require a starter as there are not enough calls in the vial or packet

 

[Gear101]

Ok after a couple days at 30#s, I tried one last night, really good beer. It has a full wet mouth to it, dark chocolate aroma, oatmeal (just the right amount),some bitterness and very smooth. It is a beer that I could drink all the time and really did want to put it down last night. Glad I set this back.

Ok when I set this back I had an infection, here is the story.

Long story short, I checked the beer for FG about a week early. So I went to my LHBS and got the grains to reset, while the grains where in the mast tune I was going to keg the first beer. After opening it up I found out that it was infected. Well in a hard spot what I did was keg the beer, the infection was not that bad, then took the yeast out of the bottom of the bucket. I put the yeast onto a small Ball Jar, about half way full, topping the rest off with Starsan and shook the jar. Well I didn’t have time to run back to LHBS and get more yeast, so I tossed in the Starsan/yeast into the cool wart. Had no problems with the second beer, now with that said I would not make a normal practice of this? LOL :smack:

 

[nickmv]

I'm gonna be honest -- I have no idea what you just said. You need to explain that again.

Something about grains "resetting" (whatever that means) and dumping starsan'd yeast on an infected beer or something....

 

[Gear101]

I reused infected yeast by sterilizing it with Starsan.

 

[nickmv]

I reused infected yeast by sterilizing it with Starsan.

Mhmmm. Probably not the greatest idea at all. But if it worked, then best of luck.

 

[adamg8504]

Well, I just brewed this today and hit an OG of 1.052. It looks good and we'll see how it tastes in about 5 weeks (2 weeks for bottle conditioning).

 

[davebstock]

Can anyone compare this oatmeal stout to samuel smith's? I already asked but no answer. I'm really teetering between which one I'll buy grain for. May be brewing next weekend. I'm pretty much done buying my all grain equipment.

 

[jbags5]

Can anyone compare this oatmeal stout to samuel smith's? I already asked but no answer. I'm really teetering between which one I'll buy grain for. May be brewing next weekend. I'm pretty much done buying my all grain equipment.

Can't compare, but can tell you that you will not regret brewing this recipe