Comments on: Oatmeal Stout Brew Day

By: travis

travis — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:51:45 +0000

As long as you find your stride with efficiency, don’t worry about the number. A little variation shouldn’t hurt things too much (that’s personal opinion, I am sure there are plenty of people that would differ). Funny you should mention the EJ Wren thing, last time I was in there, Ed mentioned that his grain crusher is going bad and he has had to run things through twice. I would recommend that you make sure he does that if you have him crush for you. I’ve always used him. Grain crushing is messy and a good grain mill is way more than I want to spend. Save me one of those brews to try out and we’ll do dinner or something! Travis

By: Jeremy Potter

Jeremy Potter — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:35:32 +0000

I brewed up the Imp Amber on Saturday. It went pretty well. This is the 4th All Grain batch I’ve done and I’m still having some trouble with my efficiency. I ended up right around 70% with 1.075 – but this was close enough to my target of 1.077. It seems though on most forums that others are getting at least 75% with a batch sparge but usually higher.
The color was also more copper than amber but I’m not worried about that.
Do you crush your own grain or have it done at EJ’s??

By: cnybrew

cnybrew — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:56:21 +0000

Jeremy – There is one thing that I never mind showing people – my brew stuff. Glad you enjoyed the party. I’ll be brewing in November (I’m thinking the 14th maybe) and you’re welcome to join me. Are you all-grain brewing this weekend? I hope it goes well.

By: Jeremy Potter

Jeremy Potter — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:12:49 +0000

Travis,
I was at your Oktoberfest a couple of weekends ago – I was the guy pestering you about your brewing set up. Thanks for showing me around…and for all the homebrew.
Glad to hear your brew day went well. I like the idea of simplifying the recipe and am going to try to work out a very simple and clean Pale Ale recipe sometime soon using some of this years homegrown Cascade.
I’m brewing up an Imperial Amber Ale tomorrow…hopefully all goes well for me too.
I’d love to stop by on one of your future brew days.
Take care.