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| By Rob Hudson on Oct 20th 2003, 5:15 pm | Permalink |
Matt and I had our 2nd annual Oatmeal Stout/Olde Ale brew-off. Last year I made Denny's Snow Cap clone. This year I pieced together a recipe with inspiration from Rogue's Mogul Ale (or at least the grains listed). Started with an Old Ale and bumped up the color and IBUs, so one might call it a PNW Old Ale.  Moguloid Ale - 10 gallons OG: 1.071, SRM: 22, IBU: 69 19 lbs 2-row 5 lbs Munich (light) 3 lbs Crystal 60L 1 lb Crystal 120L 1 lb Chocolate Malt 0.75 oz Chinook @ 90 1 oz Columbus @ 60 2 oz Cascade @ 30 2 oz Crystal @ 20 2 oz Saaz @ 5 1056 Yeast My idea with the finishing Saaz for aroma was that a spicy, peppery hop aroma would go well with a darker, winter warmer type of beer. We'll see how that works out. Both the Crystal hops and Saaz hops were pellets, so I clogged up my kettle again. And for some reason, I couldn't get a syphon going so I ended up using the pitcher and strainer method to get the wort in the carboys. Thanks to Matt for having those sterilized and ready as a backup plan. Another twist that'll make this beer unique is that Matt ended up with about 1 gallon more wort than he needed for his Oatmeal stout. So what we did was boil down the extra gallon, caramelized it, and added it to the Olde Ale. Used 65% efficiency to get in the 1.066 range. I think I actually got around 70% and hit 1.071. Found that my hydrometer is off -- when measuring straight water it reads 0.996. I need to make up some sugar solution to check it at various ranges to find my error correction curve. Either that or buy a new hydrometer or refractometer.  A great brew session. |
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