“Oh man! Jackpot beer.” Those words just popped out of my mouth after I had my first taste of my Oatmeal stout. The brew turned out in perfect form, with good bottle carbonation, nice but fleeting head retention, beautiful…
My first batch of oatmeal stout went into bottles the other day. I now have 5o dark, delicious beauties that will be ready to consume in two to three weeks. Bottling went without even the regular upsets or mistakes–I did notice…
It has been a full three weeks since I brewed my first stout, an oatmeal stout, and tomorrow, I bottle. It took a lot longer to finish this last batch. The cold weather doesn’t inspire a thirst for beer like…
My worries were alleviated today when I racked my oatmeal stout off to the secondary fermenter. From the gravity reading of 1.020, I was able to deduce that my original gravity was right on track, a little bit low,…
Its is brew day and batch number five is under way. I decided to try a 90 minute boil this time around–the longer boil will reduce the amount of DMS that ends up in my beer.
I bagged up the 1…
I have selected a nice Oatmeal stout recipe for my next brew. I figure that this sweet stout is going to be very drinkable even on cold days.
I was all ready to brew this last weekend when I discovered I…
This is a sweet stout recipe provided by the Homebrew Pro Shoppe of Olathe, KS. Sweet stouts are characturized by an bittering unit to gravity unit ratio of 0.5. ( Read about this in Ray Daniel’s Designing Great Beers)
Staring Gravity: 1.050…