Oatmeal Pale Ale

Just a Pale Ale.

With flaked oats?

Yup.

Saturday Sept. 19, 2020

Grain Bill –

11 lbs. Maris Otter

1.5 lbs. White Wheat

17 oz. Vienna

3 lbs. Flaked Oats

13 oz. Crystal 40

7 oz. Crystal 60

Hop Bill –

.5 oz Galaxy pellets – 15.7% – 50 mins

1 oz Amarillo pellets – 7.7% – 30 mins

1 oz Cascade pellets – 6.3% – 30 mins

1 oz Amarillo pellets – 7.7% – 5 mins

1 oz Cascade pellets – 6.3% – 0 mins

Yeast –

wyeast 1332 Northwest

One of the classic ale strains from a Northwest U.S. Brewery. It produces a malty and mildly fruity ale with good depth and complexity.

Calculated Stats –

OG – 1.055

FG – 1.016

IBU – 45

SRM – 8

ABV – 5%

Mash Profile –

Standard mash profile in kettle.

Strike 5.7 gallons @ 165˚ – hold 150˚ 60 mins.

Heat to mash out 168˚

Transfer to mash tun.

Sparge with 7 gallons @ 170˚

Collect 10 gallons

Brew Day –

Everything went very smooth. Turned out to be a beautiful day. Perfect brewing weather.

Efficiency went crazy though. Pre boil gravity was around 1.056 (what FG was supposed to be). I ended up adding 1 gallon of water just before boil.

Chill got below 80˚.

OG = 1.055 – NAILED IT!

Collected a bit over 8.5 gallons. With starter just over 9 gallons in fermenter. By Saturday evening a very strong bubble in airlock.

Thursday Sept. 24

Racked to secondary. Gravity = 1.013 – lower than calculated. Sample tastes great. Hoppy but not overly bitter. Really excited for this one.