So we brewed the Patriot Stout on 9/11. svossler and I got started about 10am at his maple syrup production facility, with some help from linknlog and vossybrew along the way. We managed to get the job done, although the day was full of unexpected hiccups.
First we found that the gas line to the stove was leaking. After careful consideration we determined that keeping all of our appendages was crucial, so we carried the half-heated brewpot to the other stove on the premises (of course it's good to have two stoves for circumstances like these). The boiling...
I'm liking the idea more and more of using homegrown ingredients in my beers. Since I failed to find a good way to use linknlogs oats and had to settle for quaker's instant oatmeal in my last recipe, I thought I'd give it another shot, this time with blueberries from my buddy svossler. I think a blueberry stout sounds like a spectacular idea. We're going to brew it on 9/11 this year, so Scott suggested Patriot Stout, and we're gonna make a ton of it (15 gallons), so it better be good.
There's a few different ways I see...
Well I've learned some more about trying to brew with homegrown oats, so heres an update to my previous post, Brewing with Oats.
Unfortunately, it seems that there is a lot of processing I'd have to do to get the oats ready for brewing. They didn't crack in the grain mill I used, they just kind of smashed into fuzzy sticky oat fragments. I think I'd have to cook them or thoroughly dry them before cracking, then cook them again to get some gelatinization going so that I could get some sugar out in the boil / mash. Not...
So my friend Brian (Linknlog) is quite the farmer, and this year he has a whole field of oats. I'm not exactly sure what he's going to use them for, but I couldn't resist asking for a sample to try and add a little bit of homegrown Allegany County goodness to my next beer. I know it's summertime, and typically oats are used in the dark, thick beers that you chew on while sitting next to the fireplace about mid-January, but I figured why not try to add some creamy smoothness to a more easy drinking, lighter beer, like a...
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