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Toasting Oats Guide

February 17, 2015 by Derek Springer 8 Comments

Flaked OatsI am a big fan of using small amounts of flaked adjuncts like flaked wheat and flaked barley in my recipes to add some extra mouthfeel and boost head retention. Since St. Patrick’s Day is approaching I have been thinking about stouts and I have been itching to try my hand at making an oatmeal stout, which makes ample use of flaked oats for its signature creamy texture.

If you have never used oats in a recipe before, they lend a smooth, silky mouthfeel and a luscious creaminess that is hard to beat. Oats are relatively neutral in flavor (slightly oaty, naturally), but it is possible to bump the character up a notch by toasting them in the oven; toasting the oats will add a nice amount of nutty/biscuity character reminiscent of an oatmeal cookie. Oat toasting is a great technique for any style that you want a full, creamy mouthfeel and nutty/biscuity character, stouts and nut brown ales come to mind.

The challenge I discovered, however, was that when I was researching oat toasting technique there was sparse advice for the process beyond “cook in oven at 300ºF until toasted.” Thus, I decided to create this guide to toasting oats in hopes others would not share the same frustration I had as I worked out the proper technique.

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Cheap and Easy Hop Storage

February 4, 2015 by Derek Springer Leave a Comment

Hop Storage

Over the past year or two I have slowly been developing a process to store bulk-purchased hops cheaply and securely. It took me far too long to write it up, but I am happy to announce that the article is finally published over on HomeBrewTalk.

Being a tightwad I have spent a lot of time thinking on how to come up with a cheap option for hop storage. The solution came to me on a random idle evening as I went down the path of following just about any link I could get my hands on to perpetuate my idleness. As we all know, sometimes that means you stumble into a community dedicated to preserving salad in jars; sometimes that means you become enraptured by one-upmanship of the salad-in-a-jar enthusiasts as they try to preserve their salads in the cheapest way possible. And sometimes that means you crib come up with an idea for storing hops in such a cheap and easy way that you feel like you should start a life in the informercial biz…

Read the full article over on HomeBrewTalk!

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Sour Mashing Presentation

September 3, 2014 by Derek Springer Leave a Comment

I’m giving a presentation on Sour Mashing and Berliner Weisse tonight at the Society of Barley Engineers meeting. For posterity’s sake, here are the slides:

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