As you might know, I have started to brew my own beer at home. The one in this post is my second brew, and I was attempting to brew an oatmeal stout!! We were invited to a braai at my brothers house, and this was the opportune moment to test my latest brew. The glasses were chilled in the freezer and the beer poured beautifully.
The beer had a great dark color and a beautiful tan head - just as a stout should have. The beer had a good stout taste a bit hoppy and quite bitter. As I said, I wanted to brew an oatmeal stout, but I could not taste the oats. I think, I added to little oats to the mix. The beer however still tasted great!!
Just look at that head!! I was quite happy with the carbonation, I achieved with this one. I calculated the alcohol content to be 3.15%, thus it was quite light.
Below is the recipe, if you would like to brew this one yourself.
Ingredients:
馃嵑Belgium Pale Malt: 2.425kg
馃嵑Pale Chocolate (Fawcett and Sons): 0.15kg
馃嵑Roasted Barley (Fawcett and Sons): 0.025kg
馃嵑1 coffee Mug oats
馃嵑Bravo Hops: 100g
馃嵑Mangrove Jacks strong ale Yeast M42: 1 packet
馃嵑Priming Sugar
Method:
馃嵑Put all the grains in a grain bag, with 10 litter of water in a large pot.
馃嵑Heat to 60 Celsius 30 min,
馃嵑Increase heat 67 Celsius for 1 Hour Increase water to 12 litter by sparging through grain.
馃嵑Then increase heat to a rolling Boil for 1 Hour
馃嵑Add half hops 15 min into boil and remaining half 15 minutes before end.
馃嵑Cool down to below 26 Celsius
馃嵑Ferment 3 weeks
馃嵑Bottle age 4 weeks (Add priming sugar in the bottle when bottling)
馃嵑Chill beer to ICE COLD
馃嵑Chill glass to ICE COLD
馃嵑Pour beer into glass
馃嵑Savor every sip!!
The only equipment I used was a large pot, a grain bag, a small hops bag and a fermenting bucket.
I hope you liked my post as much as I enjoyed writing it!!
The photos and video, were taken with my iPhone, at my brothers house, in Pretoria, South-Africa.
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