Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Batch No. 3 - Breakfast Stout

Breakfast Stout

Brewed - November 24, 2007

Style - Stout
Source - Northern Brewer Kit

Ingredients:
  • 1.5 lbs. Flaked Oats
  • 0.5 lbs. Simpson's Roasted Barley
  • 3.15 lbs. Dark LME
  • 1.0 lbs. Lactose
  • 1.0 oz. Willamette (60)
  • Wyeast #1084 Irish Ale

OG - 1.031
Primary - 8 days
Seconday - 16 days

Bottled - December 18, 2007

FG - 1.020
Attenuation - 35.5%
ABV - 1.44%

Notes:
- full boil
- very low OG
- super thin, almost no flavor
- horrible attenuation
- too high pitching temp?
- lame beer overall; most was poured out

This was my first (and only so far) total failure. I think the first mistake was misreading the temp before I pitched the yeast. Attenuation was only 36%, so clearly the yeast didn't do it's job. Ended up dumping most of this as it was just like brown water. It was a really low OG to begin with and I will likely avoid recipes that low in the future (unless intended by me for a mild or something - certainly not a stout!!).

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