December 1, 2012
Here’s the first of the real Project entries. Today I made a breakfast stout from a kit I bought some time ago.
This kit is old enough that the yeast pouch had gone bad and I had to get a new one, delaying things for a week. As you can see, though, the new yeast pack is fine. A “breakfast stout” (at least how I made it) is an oatmeal cream stout with added coffee.
It was rainy out so I brewed inside — perfectly doable with an extract brew. The sparge was entertaining with all that oatmeal in the mash — it made a very viscous wort.
In fact, the wort was so viscous it blew the airlock right off the primary carboy and I had to switch to a blow-off hose.
I don’t have a picture for it, but I steeped 1/3 lb of cracked coffee beans in some rye whiskey and added it to the seconday. This made for a pretty tasty beer.