Today’s brew is another one that was great, but then never got brewed again. Oatmeal stout. 

I actually had forgotten all about this one until I threw some oatmeal in the stout I brewed at the meeting. The oatmeal aromas and taste really jump out at you.

The last time I brewed this was 2010. I’m slightly changing it because of my growing distaste for 120L crystal. So 80L is going in instead. And instead of Mt. Hood hops I’m using Fuggles. 

Black Knight-3 gallon

4.5 lbs 2 row

6 oz roast barley

5 oz chocolate malt

5 oz 80L crystal

1 lb oatmeal

1.25 Fuggles @60

London ale III. Mashed 156

The way my kettle works is I have a false bottom over the elements. Even in the boil bag the oatmeal is sooo gummy that it completely sealed off the false bottom. 

When I started my pump to recirc, it created a suction underneath and just choked everything off. A couple stirs to open a channel and we were all good.  

So this time I did not recirc. I just stirred half way thru like mashing in the tun. 

So this time after I took the bag out I put another clean bag over the end of the outlet hose and recirculated while heating to boil. Really cleaned a bunch of gunk out that would have been strained out during the normal recirc. 

Hit the preboil of .042. And had an OG of .058.  Even right now it smelled delicious.