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Oatmeal Stout Yooper's Oatmeal Stout - Home Brew Forums

I haven't personally brewed this one but a ton of people on this site rave about it. It's a 5 gallon all grain batch so if you're doing extract you'll have to do some research in that thread to see if someone has posted that and then just use BeerSmith to convert it to a 1 gallon batch.

 

Nah that is the right amount, I was just more shocked that an arrangement like that would do 10 gallon batches. If the average home hobbyist brewer does 5 gallon batches, why would doubling it for a customer be a good idea? There's a place here that you can pay to brew at and they do 3 and 5 gallon batches so the customer ends up with, like, 45 12 oz bottles. 50 bombers is just excessive, IMO.

Here's this, but it's for a 5 gallon batch. Beersmith makes it easy to scale to your equipment, though. This is his riff on Founders Breakfast Stout. Also, if I have one beer related website to recommend, it's The Mad Fermentationist. His blog has just hundreds of great posts and if you ever get interested in sour beers, it's a treasure trove. But he does a lot of belgians and saisons. It's a lot of varied recipes which I enjoy (including NEIPA's as well). The guy who runs it is named Michael Tonsmeire and he literally wrote a book on sours and has consulted with breweries across the country on various things -- most famously, Modern Times in California. He's finally decided to take the plunge and open a brewery soon with another blogger who I enjoy reading (though he writes very academically) named Scott Janish. Scott's website is a goldmine for hop information. He brews a lot of NEIPA's and does a lot of work on hop oils and whatnot. Even has a hop calculator with recommendations for hops based on oil content. It's not an exhaustive tool, but pretty cool nonetheless.

 

Side note, I'll be in Virginia this weekend for a wedding are there any good breweries worth checking out? I'll be in the Leesburg area.

 

The Veil gets a ton of hype but they appear to be about 2 hours from Leesburg. This is a job for @williek311. He should be able to rec some good VA breweries.

 

I finally tried Pliny the Elder. It was good.

 

Here's the quick answer that explains why. The place lets you do 5 or 10 gallon batches. My job gives us a yearly amount of money allocated specifically for "classes." I chose brewing class for last year, and the yearly allotment covered a 10 gallon batch, I didn't want to leave free money on the table.

 

That's awesome that the mad fermentationist is opening his own spot. His website is a treasure trove of great information and recipes. I don't know much about Scott other than an article I read on bitterness derived from big dry hopping but with those 2 it sounds like a recipe for an awesome brewery.

 

Ahh, that makes sense. But man, that's a lot of beer haha.

Yeah, I really like Scott's website because it was super helpful last summer when I was looking for NEIPA recipes. Also he won a pretty big homebrew comp. Might've been best IPA at the national homebrew comp, can't remember.

But yeah, that's a i-want-to-go-to-Maryland-in-three-years type brewery. Let their wild stuff get out in the market then hit them up.

 

Aslin and Ocelot are suppose to be pretty good up in that area. I don't really live close but have some friends that hype them a bit.

 

Yeah, just saw Aslin on the session ipa paste magazine list. Heard good things.

 

I had two beers from them, both rather disappointing. One's carb was all off the other one was just meh. But I haven't written them off completely, they just don't distribute here in Richmond.

 

Sweet, thanks. I saw that Aslin was rated decently high on Beer Advocate so I'll have to see if I can check them out.

 

I have a friend that LOVES Aslin. Still haven't had anything myself but worth checking out if you're in the area for sure. (& then let us know what you think!)

 

Only thing I've had from Aslin was a collab that they did with Kane, but that was great.

 

So I tried 6 of the Beer Camp beers on draft tonight. Here's what I had and what I thought:

East Meets West IPA - Unique flavor profile. Very tropical, kiwi. Low bitterness. 4/5
Dunkle Weisse - Creamy, banana. Doesn't make a huge impression, but a well put together beer. 3.75/5
Campout Porter - Chocolate, coffee, marshmallow, graham cracker. Really hits the mark. 4.25/5
Dry-Hopped Berliner - Nice clean, bright lemony tartness. Refreshing and easy to drink. 4/5
West Coast Style DIPA - Decent IPA, didn't really stand out to me. Pretty standard for the style. 3.75/5
Raspberry Sundae - Not as bad as I was expecting. Definitely got the raspberry and creaminess, not so much the chocolate. I think this would've worked better at a lower ABV and with a bit more flavor. Feels a bit fuzzy. 3.5/5

Overall, I thought all of the beers were decent to great. Exceeded my expectations and made me want to buy the full 12-pack!

 

I've only had East Meets West so far and didn't really find anything special about it, tasted like a run of the mill every day IPA to me

 

Did you have it on draft or out of the can? Curious if that would make a difference.

The main thing that stuck out to me about it was the sweet, tropical, kiwi-like flavor. Haven't tasted that in any of the other IPA's I've tried.

 

I had a couple out of the cans and they were fine. Nothing to write home about, but i'm probably the most picky about IPA's when it comes to beer.

 

Galactic Double Daisy Cutter was just absurdly dank

 

Neshaminy Creek had some pretty solid beers on tap at the new location today. Assume it was spillover from their 5 year at the original but with less people.
Got the barrel aged Belgian Tripel, BA Imperial Chocolate Milk Stout which were both really great, a newer session IPA which I didn't enjoy too much and a Shape of Hops to Come, which remains their best beer.

 

So, so good

 

So Bell's black note is the best stout I've ever had I think. I'm so sad this is my only bottle.

 

It is a good one, for sure.

Edit: you ever have Bells 30th Anniversary stout?

 

We did a side by side with KBS, and it's shocking how much better it was.

And I did! That was a damn fine beer as well.

 

Very nice. I've never done a side by side with KBS, but Black Note didn't 'wow' me. It was really really good.