January 11th, 2008

Oatmeal Stout Recipe

Posted by Mike in Recipes

I told you it was a work in progress, so here is the latest iteration of my Oatmeal Stout Recipe.  This time I added a little flaked barely rather than all Oatmeal.  This is an attempt to force a creamy mouthfeel.  I also increased the amount of Black Patent and Roasted Barely, while cutting back on the chocolate.  In retrospect this may be a mistake, but its all about learning. 

I also tried to do some bittering with a high alpha hop (Nugget), and do flavoring with the EKG.  Using a low alpha hop for bittering means using more of it, which does carry over some flavor because you use so much more.  By using I high alpha hop addition for bittering the flavor contribution will be less.  Then by using the EKG as a flavoring addition, I use less overall EKG (saves on precious EKG right now), but I still get an EKG and English Stout character.  At least that’s how it plays out on paper (or blog), I’ll post some tasting notes on this in a few weeks once the beer is servable.

Oatmeal Stout#2

13-C Oatmeal Stout

BeerTools Pro Color Graphic

Size: 6.5 gal
Efficiency: 65%
Attenuation: 70.0%
Calories: 212.9 per 12.0 fl oz
Original Gravity: 1.063 (1.048 – 1.065)
Terminal Gravity: 1.019 (1.010 – 1.018)
Color: 35.4 (22.0 – 40.0)
Alcohol: 5.83% (4.2% – 5.9%)
Bitterness: 33.57 (25.0 – 40.0)

Ingredients:

12.0 lbs English 2-row Pale
1 lbs Wheat Malt
0.75 lbs American Caramel 40°L
0.25 lbs American Caramel 120°L
0.75 lbs American Chocolate Malt
1 lbs American Black Patent
1 lbs Roasted Barley
1 lbs Rice Hulls
1 lbs Oats Flaked
1 lbs Barley Flaked
0.75 oz Nugget (13.0%) – added during boil, boiled 60 min
1.0 oz East Kent Goldings (4.5%) – added during boil, boiled 30 min
2 pkg Safale-04 (Fermentis)

Schedule:

Mash InLiquor: 4.94 gal; Strike: 178.3 °F; Target: 156 °F
ConversionRest: 60 min; Final: 156.0 °F
Mash out InfusionWater: 5.09 gal; Temperature: 181.9 °F; Target: 168 °F

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  1. on January 11th, 2008 at 10:21 am

    [...] brewed up another batch of Oatmeal Stout with a few minor tweaks (I’ll post the recipe separately). Got up at 5AM on Sunday morning to brew so I could hopefully finish before my wife went to work [...]


  2. on June 17th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    [...] constantly refining his Oatmeal Stout recipe, he came to a conclusion about Roasted Barley.  He feels that this ingredient should be the [...]


  3. on March 12th, 2009 at 10:30 am

    [...] almost time to fire up the brew kettle once again. The top of the list is a revisit my Oatmeal Stout recipe with some revisions. I thought I would be able to start brewing sooner, so does it make sense to [...]


  4. on October 7th, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    [...] just for dinner and lunch anymore, now it’s for breakfast.  My friends over at the Brew Dudes have also been in on the Oatmeal Stout and I haven’t brewed one since I used to kit brew.  I think it’s time to re-visit [...]


  5. on October 18th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

    [...] Oatmeal Stout - I’ve been brewing this one for years, and it’s a must have to get through the winter months.  I plan to brew this on the back side of the Best Bitter and repitch the yeast.  I have some Fuggles plugs and EKG pellets in stock, but I do need to go pick up some more Black Patent.  I recently toasted off a half pound of oats too.  So this one is 50-60% ready to brew too. [...]

  6. tony raymond said,

    on March 28th, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    I just started my fourth batch ever,I am tweaking the mcquaker oatmeal stout recipe with these extras.2 lbs of clover honey,1 more # of light dme and i toasted the oatmeal.So far it blew the bubbler off the bucket after 3 hours of adding the yeast .Cleaned it up and replaced it hope it turns out? starting gravity was 1.95

  7. John said,

    on March 28th, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    Wow Tony – Good luck!


  8. on January 3rd, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    [...] my scoresheets from the Oatmeal Stout I submitted.  I posted my current “in progress” recipe on the site a while back.  Now I want to make some notes to change a few [...]


  9. on January 26th, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    [...] saddest part of this story is that I have a keg of Oatmeal Stout and Winter Warmer fully carbed and ready to drink.  I’ll have to just drink them up before [...]

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