How to Brew an Oatmeal Stout with Joe (Part 1)

[chemicalcraig69]

When you take the temperature of the water the thermometer should not be touching the pot, and especially not the bottom that is in direct contact with the heat source. When you do his you are taking the temperature of the pot, not the water. This is something I have to teach to all of my college freshman chemistry lab students, so it's a common technical mistake.

[terpsichoreankid]

@chemicalcraig69 Thanks for the info!

[rud3m3chanical]

"You can't make some homebrew, without having a homebrew". Right on!

[terpsichoreankid]

@rud3m3chanical Pretty good mantra, eh?

[rud3m3chanical]

@terpsichoreankid - I took it to heart when making a Double Chocolate Oatmeal Stout last weekend :)

[terpsichoreankid]

@rud3m3chanical Nice!

[Esuper1]

@rud3m3chanical Home Depot or a store like Michael's carry cork. Get a piece big enough so that it will float your meter and then drill a hole and slip it in about two thirds up the thing and voila, you can still leave it in while you do your thing.

[nowyouareazombie]

I love you Joe... but mostly in a beer kind of way...

[terpsichoreankid]

@nowyouareazombie LOL

[pauswa1966]

Great video. Happy brewing.

[terpsichoreankid]

@pauswa1966 Cheers!

[losermonster]

Quoth the raven...nevermore

[terpsichoreankid]

@losermonster :-)

[BenReeves88]

if you dont mind can you tell me the recipe?

[terpsichoreankid]

@BenReeves88 Not a problem at all--it's actually the extract recipe from Midwest Supplies. If you head over to their website, and click through to the package, you can see all the ingredients and they actually have a PDF of the instructions up too. Hopefully that helps! Cheers!

[faroutadventures]

Washington State just added a 28 cent tax to non-micro beer. That is one of the reasons I've decided to homebrew. I figured I made my stout for 1/3 the price of retail. I'm liking this very much. Keep the good videos going. They are very informative and fun to watch. Great !!!

[faroutadventures]

@terp Just bottled the stout. Can't wait to taste it. The ale I'm doing is from a partial mash kit. It's funny how I can get supplies from Midwest shipped from Minnesota to Washiington, cheaper than I can buy from a local supplier. I only have one local supplier. I'm thinkiing of opening up my own homebrew supply company. I guess because we have so many commercial micro brews here in the Seattle area, that people don;t do much homebrewing. I think that might change.

[terpsichoreankid]

@faroutadventures That's crazy about the tax... maybe it is because of all the decent breweries in the area? I'm not sure really. But yeah--I think homebrew is better, more affordable, and there's a LOT more of it! Three wins, in my book! I'm in the same boat when it comes to affordability of ingredients--even with shipping and all that, it's still less to order online that to buy from a local shop. I"d like to support my local HBS, but I'm also not made of money!

[faroutadventures]

Good video. I did my first Coopers Irish Stout. Now I am doing a light ale from Midwest. Thanks for all the great demonstration.

[terpsichoreankid]

@faroutadventures Very cool! I haven't tried the Stout from Coopers--you'll have to let me know how it turned out for you. Are you doing the 20 min. light kit?  The light kit I did from Midwest turned out pretty well! Cheers!

[ACTeslaMachineDC]

does your screen name stand for "peter is a korean kid" ?...always wondered this when i saw your name lol

[terpsichoreankid]

@ACTeslaMachineDC Haha--no, but that is pretty good! It's actually sort of a phrase I made up--'terpsichorean' means 'of or relating to dancing'. When I made up the name, I was heavily involved in dance training--so my screen name literally means Dancing Kid! Pretty clever, eh? :-) Cheers!

[TakeSomeAdvice]

I also brewed Coopers draught and have a video with the tasting and pouring. I'm curious as to why yours came out darker than mine? You also have less head on yours.

Did you get an apple flavor on yours?

How much priming sugar did you use?

i'm just curious about the consistency of the canned products.

[terpsichoreankid]

I wound up using about 3 lbs of Munton's light DME for my extra fermentable sugars. There wasn't an apple taste, but I did notice the DME seemed to have diminished the hop flavor--I'd like to try the kit again with the DME but maybe add some more hops at the start of it. I'm pretty sure my glass is what caused the low head on the beer--it was washed in a dishwasher with rinse agent... I used 5oz of priming sugar dissolved in 1 cup boiled water and added it to a bottling bucket prior to bottling.

[jbelokur]

When you purchased the kit from MidWest Supplies what yeast strain did you choose and why?

[terpsichoreankid]

I actually ended up going with the basic Munton's dry yeast that comes with the kit for this brewing session. The kit was actually a gift, so I wound up using what I got! :-) I'm assuming this beer will come out great (it smells awesome) so when I do this one again, I may experiment with the liquid yeasts they recommend. I would think the Wyeast would work best--especially as it has to travel through the mail system to get to me. White Labs sounds great, but I would rather buy it in person.