Maris Otter in dark beers? Stouts, Porters etc.

[Barge]

if you live in capalaba, you should beware the koala scats falling through the airlock and into your precious

You don't see as many around here as you used to. <_<

 

[welly2]

Finally making this oatmeal stout. Might be my contribution to the NSW Case Swap.

Edit. seemed to go alright although the sparge took forever and a half. About an hour and twenty minutes.

Still, that rinsed the **** out of the grain and the pre-sparge gravity was 1.050, post sparge gravity (with 13L sparge water) was 1.049.



Will probably have to dilute after to hit the mark, which isn't a bad thing I suppose. Wort tastes excellent. It's as dark as the night.

 

[Dan Pratt]

Hi Welly, I love a solid oatmeal stout. How do you plan to carbonate this? Do you cold crash and use coopers pellets or bottling bucket method?

 

[welly2]

Hi Welly, I love a solid oatmeal stout. How do you plan to carbonate this? Do you cold crash and use coopers pellets or bottling bucket method?

Yep, will be cold crashing it and I'll probably do the bottling bucket method and bulk prime it. Although I do have a load of those coopers carbonation drops, which I keep in reserve. I think I'll bulk prime it though. This is my first proper no chill so got two 10L cubes outside chilling it but it'll have to wait until next week to ferment as the fermentation fridge is currently full. Bah.

 

[Blind Dog]

You need a bigger ferment fridge, to rethink your fermentors, or another (ie additional) ferment fridge. kind of rude to keep the cubes waiting

 

[welly2]

You need a bigger ferment fridge, to rethink your fermentors, or another (ie additional) ferment fridge. kind of rude to keep the cubes waiting

You're not wrong. I'm thinking of replacing the big(ish) fridge with two smaller bar fridges.