effin oatmeal stout revisited

[gurtpint]

I've been thinking of making this come Friday but as a slightly stronger version. If my memory doesn't fail me, the FG of Mk2 was 1.045. I might go for 1.050-ish? Could scaling up the grain bill be as easy as this: 50 divided by 45 = 1.11 = 11% more of each grain? Or do I have to go with a longer route calculating the lab extraction of each grain and then multiplying that with my efficiency percentage?

 

[graysalchemy]

Hi

I did alemans otmeal recently. The recipe I used I think is revised from the one posted in reciped. It was revised by aleman last year and includes brown malt. In the last one I did I upped the oatmeal at the expense of the flaked barley again at alemans direction. I am bottling on monday but initial tastings are very good.

I uped mine to 1050I will link alemans revised recipe tommorow, as I am on my blackberry at the moment.


Cheers

AG

 

[gurtpint]

Cheers AG! The recipe I'm going to fiddle with has brown malt as well and I have toasted 750g of oat flakes... Did you up the hops as well?

 

[graysalchemy]

Hi this is my recipe I did last time for 55l

effin oatmeal stout revised again
Date:
Gyle Number:
Fermentable Colour lb: oz Grams Ratio
Pale Malt 5 EBC 19 lbs. 11.0 oz 8930 grams 66.1%
Oat Flakes 2.5 EBC 3 lbs. 9.2 oz 1620 grams 12%
Roasted Barley 1350 EBC 1 lbs. 4.3 oz 575 grams 4.3%
Flaked Barley 0 EBC 1 lbs. 3.1 oz 540 grams 4%
Crystal Malt 130 EBC 1 lbs. 9.3 oz 720 grams 5.3%
Brown Malt 150 EBC 1 lbs. 9.3 oz 720 grams 5.3%
Chocolate Malt 1050 EBC 0 lbs. 14.2 oz 405 grams 3%

I uped the oats and reduced the flacked barley. Are you doing a glucan rest?

As I said I haven't bottled it yet but I have a good sniff of the FV every morning and it smells wonderful.

I used the same hopping schedule but I added 20g at 15 minutes for a bit of aroma.

Hope it goes OK

Cheers

 

[gurtpint]

Cheers for that! I calculated the amounts for 23L, added 10% to compensate for my modest efficiency, rounded things up a bit and this was the result:

Pale 4100
Roasted barley 270
Flaked barley 250
Crystal 330
Brown 330
Choc 190
Flaked oats (toasted) 750

I intend to do a glucan mash.

I do hope that my efficiency goes up this time, though, as now I'll be armed with a local water report, non-iodinized table salt + an array of brewing salts and this forum's water treatment calculator... Well see if that makes a difference.

 

[graysalchemy]

Looks good I will be interested to see how yours turns out. Bottling mine on Monday so I will be able to have a taste. At the moment its in an FV with no tap so I don't want to dip anything in it, hence I haven't tasted it for a few weeks.

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[gurtpint]

Exciting times, eh? I'll go for 50g Bramling Cross and I think I might actually try using the 20g you added at 75 mins as first wort hops. Gotta try it some time and this time is as good as any, I suppose

 

[Ceejay]

Yeah! I'm gonna "first wort" hop my IPA on Saturday : It's OK to do whilst not actually heating the wort isn't it?

 

[gurtpint]

It's OK to do whilst not actually heating the wort isn't it?

I would think so. Some people seem to advocate rubbing the hops a bit before throwing them in to help with the oxidation process, if I'm not mistaken. Schedule for today: 1) swim 2) brew!

 

[Ceejay]

Woohoo! have a great brewday (and swim) :thumb:

 

[graysalchemy]

have a good brew day :thumb: :thumb: