Alright, you guys can point and laugh if you like, but I thought I would share the problems that I had with brewing up the Quiet Store Oatmeal Stout that is in the recipe section. There was both process problems, and a problem that cause physical pain. :cheers:1st problem was me and my buddy argued about what temp to use for the strike water. I tried to tell him that we were going to lose a lot more heat from transferring it from my pot to the MLT and then adding the grains in. I finally gave in basically to prove it to him, and what do you know, 141.
So my solution was to boil the little bit of remaining water that was in the pot and add it in to the mash and see where the temp ended up. It didn't look like a lot, but when I added it, I guess I should have gone slower because I was like "Oh shit, that was way too much water". So I ended up with a mash that had way too much water. That wasn't the biggest worry, the bigger problem was that now the mash was way too high. So I took out some of the mash, put it back in my pot and let it cool down and added it back to the mash. Now it was where I was shooting for - 156. Cool, put the lid on, went on a quick 4 mile hike and came back.When we got back, got the sparge water ready, then vorlaugh'd which was comical being the tun was still just way too flooded. While doing this, I wasn't paying attention, and my leg ended up touching the hot metal of my SABCO burner - right on my tattoo. It sizzled before I felt the pain. Hope my tattoo isn't going to be messed up.
Anyway, the sparge stuck BAD. Had to disturb the grainbed to get it flowing again, and it was a challenge during the rest of the sparge. I have to figure out how to prevent stuck sparges, they suck.The ferment is going alright. There was very little krausen, maybe half an inch, and seems to be coming to a screeching halt though. Not sure if the WLP004 is a quick fermenter or not.It'll be beer though!!
