Rolled Oats, What's The Limit, % Wise?

[mje1980]

I checked the gravity today, and there was a good inch of krausen there. Its fermenting, and there is krausen. Might actually work. Though i did order some Oat malt, and some flaked oats haha. I plan on doing some more experiments with oats.

 

[Bizier]

Keen to hear your tasting notes.

I am still drinking a mild containing the spec oats. I love it.

Remember - Harviestoun use oats in Bitter and Twisted. I could mainline that beer.

 

[mje1980]

Hmm i'll have to look out for Bitter n Twisted. So far tasting like a nice mild, a little silky on the tongue, but not extreme, and the krausen sticks to the side of the test tube. Should be kegged by monday, tasted by wednesday haha.

 

[mje1980]

Kegged and carbed. Well, its definately got a head, so a tick there. Flavour wise, its a nice mild, i like it. The mouthfeel is a bit more silky than other beers yep, but not as silky smooth as i'd expected. If blindfolded i definately wouldn't straight away pick it is a beer with heaps of rolled oats in it because of the mouthfeel.

So for this experiment i guess i can say that i don't really get the super creamy mouthfeel and thick creamy head in beers with lots of oatmeal. Maybe a higher gravity beer with more body might show a difference? Dunno, maybe a beer engine would push it more? Again, i dunno.

 

[tiprya]

I think the idea that a very oat-y beer will be super creamy is probably just an extrapolation of the fact that a small amount of oats adds a bit of silkiness - probably not based on extensive experimentation.

From reading a bit of the Barkley Perkins blog, it seems oatmeal stouts originally had very little oat content.

Anyway, great to hear that it has a nice head, oats sound like a good addition to a mild.

Now to find room in my brewing schedule for an oatmeal stout...

 

[mje1980]

I've got some oat malt coming, so I'll try another oat beer, but a bigger beer, probably porter,with the oat malt. See what happens.