Any weird and wacky ideas for Brewing with oats?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨baconeater@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨homebrewing@sopuli.xyz⁩

My homebrew club has an annual fundraiser every year where all the brewers have to adhere to a theme that changes every time. This year’s theme is adjuncts and I’ve been assigned Oats as an adjunct. Now I have brewed several Oatmeal stouts in my time and I want to go for something more interesting and out of the ordinary. I was thinking of Brewing a Barley wine with a hefty portion of the grain bill switched out for oats to make an Oat-wine if you will.

I was just wondering if anyone had any other wacky suggestions? I have access to pretty much all the ingredients available (I actually manage a Homebrew store) and several months before the event itself which is in mid October. As an aside, if anyone is going to be in NYC in mid October and wants to go to a fantastic event where you can try approximately 30 different beers made by some excellent home brewers have I got the event for you!

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Gregorech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You could make a lot of gluten intolerant people happy if you could come up with a true oat lager.

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- baconeater@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It would have to be 100% oats to be truly gluten free and that seems tricky. I do know a guy who did a series of experiments with 100% oat beers a few years ago (he was making single bottle batches of beer) so maybe I’ll pick his brain for advice.
  
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  - alnilam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oats aside, I’d be interested in hearing more about doing single bottle batches of beer! Sounds like a nice way to test recipes.
    
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SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Had an oat lager while travelling in the Czech Republic. It had some very funky flavours going on there and the crispness of a lager.

Maybe with a lot of rice hulls and some long rests at low temperatures (for beta-glucanase activity) you could up the grain bill to lots of oats and not get something the consistency of porridge. I know they make wheat wines out there, so why not oats? Are you limited to oats only or can you also use malted oats?

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- baconeater@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Any kind of oats are allowed. I have access to Malted oats, Flaked oats and Golden Naked Oats and I’m planning on using all 3.
  
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- plactagonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Do you know which brewery made the beer. I live in CZ but never see anything like that.
  
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  - SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Drank it in Brno at a place called Malt Worm. Was off the tap menu there, if it helps.
    
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Beelzebro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
A brewery in Texas does an oat lager that’s pretty fantastic. Not super far out there flavor wise but I had never even considered putting oats in a lager so it was pretty interesting to me.

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baggyspandex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Give me the deets on the NYC event! I’m local, I’m a homebrewer and commercial brewer and I’d love to check it out.

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- baconeater@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ll make another post in the community for more visibility, but here is the ticket link for the event. It’s going to be on Saturday, October 14th from 1-5PM at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77.
  
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- baconeater@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  So the details of the event haven’t been completely finalized yet but barring any unexpected issues it is going to be on October 14th at Building 77 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
  
  As for the homebrew shop, I manage Bitter & Esters! Come check us out!
  
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MedicPigBabySaver@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Coconut flavor blonde stout?

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- baconeater@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I actually just made an oatmeal stout with Cacao nibs and Toasted Coconut! See here!
  
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  - MedicPigBabySaver@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Cool
    
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