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Strange Brew... It's Canadian, eh?

Strange Brew... It's Canadian, eh?

Oatmeal Stout • Extract • 5 gal

The Inebriati

Brewing this for a hoser's wedding. This is a complex, yet light stout.

April 16, 2010 am 12:09am

4.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (Extract5 gal)

  • 0.5 lbs American Black Roast

    American Black Roast

    Adds a heavy roast flavor and dark color.

  • 0.5 lbs Belgian Chocolate Malt

    Belgian Chocolate Malt

    Adds a nutty flavor, Brown Ales

  • 0.5 lbs Black Roasted Barley

    Black Roasted Barley

    Unmalted roasted grain, it is the backbone of many stouts. Imparts a sharp acrid flavor characteristic of dry stouts. Gives "dryness" to a stout or porter ,more so than regular Roasted Barley.

  • 0.25 lbs Honey Malt

    Honey Malt

    Nutty honey flavor. For brown ales, Belgian wheats, bocks and many other styles.

  • 3 lbs Dry Amber; Muntons

    Dry Amber; Muntons

    Used predominantly in the production of medium-colored beers such as pale ales, IPAs, and bitters.

  • 1.5 lbs Oats Flaked

    Oats Flaked

    Belgian White Ale(wit), other specialty beers.

  • 2.76 lbs Maple Syrup

    Maple Syrup

    Imparts a dry, woodsy flavor if used in the boil. If beer is bottled with it, it gives it a smooth sweet, maple taste. Use in maple ales, pale ales, brown ales and porters.

  • 1 oz Goldings - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Goldings

    Mild. Slightly flowery.

  • 1 oz Goldings - 5.0 AA% pellets; boiled 30 min

    Goldings

    Mild. Slightly flowery.

  • 6 ea Oak Wood Chips - soaked in vodka along with a half-oz of fenugreek seeds (omitted from calculations)

    Oak Wood Chips

    Adds a pungent woody flavor. Adding oak chips (which is done in the fermenter, not the mash tun) can add some interesting flavors to your homebrew as well as acting as a surface area to accelerate aging. To provide aged-in-oak flavor. Used in some IPA to simulate flavors from ocean passage to India.

  • White Labs WLP013 London Ale

    White Labs WLP013 London Ale

    Dry, malty ale yeast. Provides a complex, oakey ester character to your beer. Hop bitterness comes through well. This yeast is well suited for classic British pale ales, bitters, and stouts. Does not flocculate as much as WLP002 and WLP005.

Notes

1 pint maple syrup weighs 1.38 lbs. Soaked 6 medium-toast oak cubes in Crown Royal Canadian Whisky. Added to secondary. 0.5 oz fenugreek was soaked in the same whisky and added to the secondary. Fenugreek has a strongly "maple" flavor and was used only to boost the aroma lost during boiling.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 13 - Stout

Subcategory: C - Oatmeal Stout

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.056 1.048 - 1.065
Terminal Gravity: 1.013 1.010 - 1.018
Color: 35.3 SRM 22 - 40
Alcohol: 5.6% ABV 4.2% - 5.9%
Bitterness: 34.3 IBU 25 - 40

Discussion

ShandyFamous

awesome name

2010-04-16 4:32am

the name and summary of this beer are totally awesome. cheers, mate...

The Inebriati

Update

2010-11-07 1:24am

To be honest, this stuff tasted terrible all the way through bottling. It was incredibly dry and two-dimensional. Threw in a half-pound of lactose in along with the priming extract in hopes that it would round out some. The result, thank-goodness, was far better than expected and was very popular at my friend's wedding. The main thing that differentiates this from a well-balanced porter is the unique, almost herbal-woody touch. Final result was very drinkable and complex enough to stand out.

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