{"id":72,"date":"2010-02-02T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2010-12-10T14:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T18:40:41","slug":"batch-9-10-oatmeal-stout","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=72","title":{"rendered":"Batch #9-10: Oatmeal Stout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Style<\/td>\nOatmeal Stout<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ingredients<\/td>\nView Here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brewing Date:<\/td>\nWednesday, October 6, 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Primary Fermentation:<\/td>\nWednesday, October 6, 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original Gravity:<\/td>\n1.044<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Secondary Fermentation:<\/td>\nThursday, October 14, 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Interim Gravity:<\/td>\n1.020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bottling Date:<\/td>\nWednesday, October 20, 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Final Gravity:<\/td>\n1.018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Release Date:<\/td>\nFriday, December 10, 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alcohol by volume:<\/td>\n3.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brand:<\/strong><\/td>\nMaster-Yeast Theatre<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Release Name:<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Quaker Way
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Release scheduled just prior to Christmas.\u00a0 This is a heavy beer with a six-week conditioning period.<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/p>\n

Oct 6 @ 7:00PM — The brew session was pretty straight-forward, except that I lost about a pint of the brew in a boilover.\u00a0 I tried hard to avoid it, but it happened anyway.\u00a0 It made quite a sticky mess on my stove.<\/p>\n

The wort was a dark brown color, and the oatmeal was quite noticeable in the aroma.\u00a0 I went back to the usual 20 minute ice bath for the brew pot, and had an 85 degree wort after topping off at 5 gallons.<\/p>\n

This batch is using a dry yeast (specified in the recipe), but I decided to put it in a malt-based starter about 36 hours ahead of time.\u00a0 The yeast looked pretty active around brewing time, but we’ll see if it generates the same aggressiveness that I get from a Wyeast package.<\/p>\n

This batch is again using wick cooling for the bucket.<\/p>\n

Oct 7 @ 7:00PM — It tooks a while for the yeast to get going, but I am getting 3 seconds bursts from the airlock, and they last as long as two seconds.\u00a0\u00a0 Off to a good start.\u00a0 Not sure how much the starter has helped.. at least, yet.<\/p>\n

Oct 14 @ 10:00PM — Transferred the wort to secondary.\u00a0 Added 1lb of corn sugar cooked at 170F water to the carboy before transferring the wort.\u00a0 The IG is 1.020: the recipe expects 1.018 at this point.\u00a0 Not too bad.\u00a0 There was a lot of trum in the fermentation bucket: 2 solid inches of it.\u00a0 Secondary fermentation is definitely called for here.\u00a0 I hope the pound of corn sugar will boost the alcohol content about 1% more.<\/p>\n

The beer is thick, like you would expect for a stout, and the flavor is quite good.\u00a0 So far, so good.<\/p>\n

Oct 20 @ 9:00PM — The carboy had about 1\/2 inch of trum on the bottom. The resulting brew was dark brown and very smooth. I am very impressed with how this batch has turned out at this point, and can’t wait to try to the final product in six weeks. From what I taste, it might be worth repeating this batch with about 1\/2 pureed banana in the fermentation bucket. The resulting beer might not quite be a new way to eat breakfast, but the flavors would seem to blend well.<\/p>\n

Bottling yield: 1x 64oz Growler, 2xs 34oz snap top, 2x 16oz snap top, 1x 22oz and 31x 12oz. I used 8oz of corn sugar dissolved in boiling water as the priming sugar. I have found that taking the time to dissolve the priming sugar in boiling water leaves very little trum in the bottles, and makes a good, smooth head on the beer when it is poured.<\/p>\n

Oct 27 @ 9:00PM — Opened the first bottle after chilling it for two hours.\u00a0 There was minimal head from it, and although drinkable, the flavors need time to meld.\u00a0 I still can imagine how a hint of banana flavoring would go well with this batch.<\/p>\n

Dec 10 @ 1:30PM — I drank three bottles with a week between them.\u00a0 The flavor improved consistently over time.\u00a0 This batch received very good feedback. I will definitely repeat this recipe in the future.\u00a0 It is a very good beer to drink outside when the air temperature is around 68F.\u00a0 This was my first time using a recipe from other than my beer supply shop, and it was a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Style Oatmeal Stout Ingredients View Here Brewing Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Primary Fermentation: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Original Gravity: 1.044 Secondary Fermentation: Thursday, October 14, 2010 Interim Gravity: 1.020 Bottling Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Final Gravity: 1.018 Release Date: Friday, December 10, 2010 Alcohol by volume: 3.9% Brand: Master-Yeast Theatre Release Name: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/387"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}