I think we have settled on the name of this new oatmeal stout on tap....'Cereal Offender' Not a bad drop, not as thick and full on as most stouts but then again I don't like a lot of them. Its a stout I'll drink and not too over the top for summer. You can really taste the oatmeal in this
Geoff and I brewed a stout together (what would these days be called a "collaboration", probably), in part to defray the cost. It is so strong and meaty that we dubbed it wrist-thick stout.
No.19 Imperial Stout (Wrist-Thick Stout)
6kg liquid black malt
1kg liquid light malt
850g crystal malt
330g roast malt
270g chocolate malt
180g roast barley
2 dessertspoons calcium carbonate (!!)
150g Pride of Ringwood hop flowers (9.5%AA)
20g Progress hop pellets (6%AA)
OG: 1089 FG: 1031 ALC/VOL: 8.2 %
It was bottled in March 1998 and we still have a few bottles left. Still drinking nicely, too.
Oliver wrote:Geoff and I brewed a stout together (what would these days be called a "collaboration", probably), in part to defray the cost. It is so strong and meaty that we dubbed it wrist-thick stout.
No.19 Imperial Stout (Wrist-Thick Stout)
6kg liquid black malt
1kg liquid light malt
850g crystal malt
330g roast malt
270g chocolate malt
180g roast barley
2 dessertspoons calcium carbonate (!!)
150g Pride of Ringwood hop flowers (9.5%AA)
20g Progress hop pellets (6%AA)
OG: 1089 FG: 1031 ALC/VOL: 8.2 %
It was bottled in March 1998 and we still have a few bottles left. Still drinking nicely, too.
Oliver
I've been wanting to make that since the day I discovered your website! (which I still reckon is awesome, by the way) I was never sure if "liquid black malt" should say liquid dark malt, though?
I made a copy of Geoff's no. 94 Enter the Dragon Stout, but since I used molasses sugar instead of dark brown sugar I saw fit to call it Enter the Wyvern Stout. Is that lame or what...?
emnpaul wrote:I was never sure if "liquid black malt" should say liquid dark malt, though?
Yep, that'd be it. If I was making this again and with the benefit of hindsight and greater general brewing knowledge, I'd probably bitter with something other than PoR, round the grain amounts up to the nearest 50g and drop the calcium carbonate. The Coopers yeast seemed to work OK, but given the high OG I'd be tempted to go with a liquid yeast that can chew through all those sugars. Plus, you then won't have to worry about the red wine yeast
emnpaul wrote:I made a copy of Geoff's no. 94 Enter the Dragon Stout, but since I used molasses sugar instead of dark brown sugar I saw fit to call it Enter the Wyvern Stout. Is that lame or what...?
emnpaul wrote:I was never sure if "liquid black malt" should say liquid dark malt, though?
Yep, that'd be it. If I was making this again and with the benefit of hindsight and greater general brewing knowledge, I'd probably bitter with something other than PoR, round the grain amounts up to the nearest 50g and drop the calcium carbonate. The Coopers yeast seemed to work OK, but given the high OG I'd be tempted to go with a liquid yeast that can chew through all those sugars. Plus, you then won't have to worry about the red wine yeast
emnpaul wrote:I made a copy of Geoff's no. 94 Enter the Dragon Stout, but since I used molasses sugar instead of dark brown sugar I saw fit to call it Enter the Wyvern Stout. Is that lame or what...?
A recent brew killed my hydrometer (filled the test tube with wort thatvwas a bit too warm and it ended up in a banana shape,) killed my urn (it died between mash and boil meaning I had to drain off into three stockpots to put on the stove,) caused three simultaneous boil-overs (whilst my attention was on fixing the urn,) then once kegged, emptied my CO2 canister. It's an English Special Bitter which is now known as "The Battle Of Britain."
bullfrog wrote:A recent brew killed my hydrometer (filled the test tube with wort thatvwas a bit too warm and it ended up in a banana shape,) killed my urn (it died between mash and boil meaning I had to drain off into three stockpots to put on the stove,) caused three simultaneous boil-overs (whilst my attention was on fixing the urn,) then once kegged, emptied my CO2 canister. It's an English Special Bitter which is now known as "The Battle Of Britain."
Man, that brew just didn't want to be made. It better have turned out to be a cracker after that effort!