Sunday, January 3, 2010

Fwd: Chocolate oatmeal stout recipe


Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Subject: Chocolate oatmeal stout recipe
To: Joe Bray <


Joe, I just remembered that you asked me for the recipe for the beer Mike Barker and I brewed for the party. Here it is, sorry it took me so long to get it to you.
 
Jim
 

Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

 

Brewed on 10/17/2009

 

3 lbs chocolate malt.

2 lbs crystal 80 malt.

8 oz black patent malt

2 lbs base malt

3 lbs flaked oats.

4 cans dark LME

1 lb dark DME

3 lb brown sugar

1 lb cocoa

2 oz fuggle hops.

2 oz kent goldings hops

 

Steeped grains in 8 gallons water for 40 minutes.

Rinsed with 3.5 gallons water.

Added 4 cans LME.

Started 90 minute boil.

Added fuggle hops with 60 minutes left in boil.

Added 3 lbs brown sugar with 60 minutes left in boil.

Added 1 lb dark DME with 28 minutes left in boil.

Added 1 lb cocoa with 23 minutes left in boil.

Added 1 tbl spoon yeast nutrient with 5 minutes left in boil.

Added kent golding hops with 1 minute left in boil.

 

Racked into 2 carboys. Oxygenated and pitched 2 packages safbrew yeast.

S.G. 1.079  19.5 brix

Checked gravity on 10/22. 1.026. Split one package Muntons ale yeast between 2 carboys.

Racked to secondary 10/28/09. Gravity 1.022.

 

Krausen and activity in airlock started again on approx. 11/06.

Checked gravity on 11/13 it was 1.016.

Bottled 11/22/09 F.G. 1.014

ABV 8.5%




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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

2 porter recipes



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Sincerely,
Joe Bray
Engineer and Poet
812-207-8299

Black Butte Porter from CYBI

SG 1.058, finish gravity 1.012, ABV=6.1%
IBU's 37 Rager, SRM 27.6
90 minutes boil.

mash
130F 10 minutes
156 F 60 minutes
168 F 10 minutes
use tastys water up calcium to 129 ppm

grain bill
10.58 lbs Pale malt
1.39 lbs Wheat
0.7 lbs crystal 80
0.42 lbs chocolate malt USA
0.42 lbs chocolate malt Great Briton 350 lv
0.42 lbs Carapils

hops
.60 oz Galena or sub Nugget 90 minutes
.25 oz Cascade 30 minutes
.25 oz Tetnang or sub Mount Hood 5 minutes

Yeast
WLP002 English Ale
Fermentation temp 64F
(and don't rush it (Tasty!) Give it a few days to clean up)