Looking for Feedback on an Oatmeal Stout Recipe

I'm looking for some feedback. I usually do kit brews for now but I am looking to get into building my own recipes. This is my first go around on that. I want to do an oatmeal stout and I'd like to keep it creamy and chocolately and not bitter.

Just want to get some of your opinions? Where and I screwing up here? What would you do differently?

Any pro tips here to brewing/creating oatmeal stouts?

Thanks! ~ Tom

http://brewershub.com/recipes/toms-oatmeal-stout-2

Partial Mash Recipe

  • Batch size: 5.0 Gallons
  • Boil size: 3.0 Gallons
  • Original gravity: 1.059
  • Final gravity: 1.015
  • Abv: 5.8 %
  • Color: 40.0 SRM
  • Bitterness: 31.0 IBU
  • Steeping efficiency: 75.0

Ingredients:

  • 1.0 ounce Goldings Hops 60 min boil
  • 0.5 ounce Fuggle Hops 45 min boil
  • 1.0 pound Dry Malt Extract - Light
  • 3.15 pound Liquid Malt Extract - Dark
  • 0.75 pound Chocolate Malt
  • 0.5 pound Roasted Barley
  • 0.5 pound Biscuit Malt
  • 2.0 pound Flaked Oats
  • 2.0 pound Maris Otter Pale Malt
  • 1.0 packet Wyeast NB NeoBritannia (1945)

Topic oats recipe stout homebrew

Category Mac

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The revised recipe after Denny's advice looks very good. If you want a really smooth oatmeal stout, you can leave out the biscuit malt and replace with flaked barley (1lb - this is more than the biscuit, so you're OG will be a touch higher), the flaked barley will round out and improve head retention. You may want to up the IBUs just a touch to 36-39 by adding 0.25oz more bittering hops, since the extracts leave residual sweetness that needs balancing out. I've not used NeoBritannia, but some report it finishes high, (another reason for using slightly more bittering hops) so try keep your mash temperature around 150F to make it more fermentable.

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You need to be aware that flaked oats (or any flaked grains) can't be steeped. They need to be mashed with a diastatic malt to convert the starches into fermentable sugar. Unfortunately, the 1/4 lb. of MO you have in there isn't enough to do that. with 2 lb. of flaked oats. I'd use at least 1.5 lb. of MO or a good domestic pale malt.

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