Lachouffe, first taste...

one word. De-fucking-licious.

i'm SO gonna make another batch of this one. its turned out like one of the better LaTrappe's, maybe the Blonde or the Tripel even. its got a really good mouth feel, taste, effervescence, body. and its only just 4 weeks old... wicked...

fastest stout in the east... 15.6

well! put down tuesday, and by saturday it'd stopped bubbling. very fast to start tho, plus double the yeast, and not a huge amount of sugars, so.. anyway, bottled last night, 15/6 into all 500ml bottles (including all my nice Renaissance bottles), except for 6 x 330ml and 3 x 640ml bottles...

Swtchbrewskr's Oatmeal Stout

Put down last night...

1.7kg Coopers Stout Kit
300g Chocolate Malt
150g Black Malt
250g Rolled Oats
1kg Dextrose
15g Saaz Hops pellets
Muntons Premium Yeast
Coopers kit yeast...

First time trying with mixed yeast strains, wonder how it'll turn out. first time i've not followed anyone elses recipe...
bubbling away nicely already at 22 degrees... bottling...?
and according to the Brewcraft Calculator, this will only be about a 5.7% beer... i shoulda gotten a light malt extract to boost it... too late now i guess.

oatmeal

its winter, its time for stout. should made some a month or two ago, in order that it be ready to drink now, but i didnt, so not much i can do about it.

its experiment time. been reading Oatmeal stout recipes, and they all require a stout kit, some roasted barley, chocolate and black malts, some hops, and ale yeasts. i've got a whole bunch of yeasts left over from previous kits, at least one of which is a good munton's one. all i'm gonna need to get is a stout kit and maybe some light malt... this week i think it'll be.


And, i scored bottles galore... emailed Renaissance Brewery, Blenhiem, and said i liked their bottles, and where could i get some, and they emailed back saying, send us 11 bucks and we'll send ya a couple of cases. as it happened a friend was up there for a weekend, so he dropped in and they gave them to him! so, thats 12 litres of my next brew capacity in Renaissance Elemental Porter bottles... nice! like the Brakspear bottles, they have a good lip in the neck that retains sediment very nicely in the pour.