AG#3 Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout

[BigYin]

Started this this morning, it's currently in the mash tun :mrgreen:

• Marris Otter pale malt 4207g[/*:m:ivb2b5nn]
• Crystal Malt 313g[/*:m:ivb2b5nn]
• Chocolate Malt 323g[/*:m:ivb2b5nn]
• Flaked Oats 318g[/*:m:ivb2b5nn]
• Roasted, flaked barley 190g[/*:m:ivb2b5nn]
• First Gold Hops, 6% Alpha, 63g[/*:m:ivb2b5nn]

So far getting a lovely rich aroma off the mash, looking forward to hopefully seeing a very dark wort from the sparge :thumb:

 

[Ceejay]

Good luck with the brew mate, and welcome to the Oatmeal Stout Brewers Club!! :lol:

 

[graysalchemy]

Yes welcome to the OMSC :thumb: :thumb:

 

[Darkbrewer]

I added molasses to mine. Most of the recipes I found that were Samuel Smith's clones called for it. Can't wait till you post how it comes out.

 

[BigYin]

The wort is a beautiful deep black :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[BigYin]

Nearly reached the boil.....

 

[Dunfie]

Good work BigYin. Nice day up here for a brew. :thumb:

 

[BigYin]

DAMMIT!!!!!!!

Had to take my son to the loo, as it turned out, just as the boil was reached, so I came back through to find it just starting to boil over! :evil:

Threw in a few litres of the wort kept back for just this reason, and then a swift clean up op

Oh well. Sods law :whistle:

 

[gurtpint]

^Good job there. I wanna be like the big boys and join the OMSC! Yeast splitting on its way but now it seems like my shipment of brewing salts has gone missing... Bugger.

 

[Darkbrewer]

good save big yin. I have an month old so I know how that goes.

 

[BigYin]

All cleaned up and 24 lovely litres of stout with an SG of 1058 is tucked away in its FV :mrgreen:

A few pics from the day :

A nice mix of grains

PID now has a cooling fan fitted (in a bit of a hurry this morning!) - works a treat - the SSR heat plates were barely even warm to the touch :thumb:

Sparging time

Nice dark wort

Checking post sparge SG

Hops added to the boiler

Lovely dark wort waiting to be added to the boil

Boil time

Rolling boil

And lastly onto the cool :mrgreen:

 

[Darkbrewer]

Awesome job. I love seeing the brew day pics

 

[Vossy1]

Love the pics BY, looks like a great brewday :

 

[Redbloke]

DAMMIT!!!!!!!

Had to take my son to the loo, as it turned out, just as the boil was reached, so I came back through to find it just starting to boil over! :evil:

Threw in a few litres of the wort kept back for just this reason, and then a swift clean up op

Oh well. Sods law :whistle:

Nice looking brew BigYin, gonna have to try this one :thumb: Have you tried 'Brupaks Anitfoam'? I started using it recently and it works a treat :

 

[BigYin]

I'm thinkking I probably should try the antifoam soon :lol:

Of course, not having to leave the brew just at a critical point would help too :lol: :lol: :whistle:

 

[Cyclops]

Looking good, is the fan right behind the ssr's? Or is it just cooling the box?

 

[BigYin]

the fan is on left of the front face of the box, and looking at the box from the front, the SSRs are mounted on the left wall of the box, at 90 degrees to the fan, held clear of the side by about 1cm. The fan draws air in and across the SSRs, and there are lots of holes drilled in the baox to allow the air to exit, so there's plenty of air moving past the SSR heat plates all the time

 

[Cyclops]

Wicked, I have a spare pc fan somewhere around the house, will get it made up at the weekend :)

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

That looks really nice, great pics, think i might have to go AG soon. :thumb: