Belfast Breakfast Oatmeal Stout

Story: See the story here about how, in an attempt to “Scotch-Irish up” my Anna Livia Irish Stout into something completely original to celebrate the Scotch-Irish heritage of my wife and children, I inadvertently backed into a perfectly familiar but delicious oatmeal stout.

The name is an homage to the city of Belfast in Ulster, Northern Ireland – the ancestral home of the Scotch-Irish settlers to the United States who caused a ruckus from Davy Crockett to Alec Baldwin.

Style: 16B Oatmeal Stout

Grist:

• 8 lbs Golden Promise or Maris Otter
• 2 lbs Flaked Oats
• 13 oz Black Roasted Barley
• 8 oz Chocolate Malt

Hops:

• 1.5 oz East Kent Goldings (7.2% AA) @ 60 minutes

Yeast: White Labs WLP 004 Irish Ale Yeast

Mash Temp: 152°F

OG: 1.057

FG: 1.012

IBU: 40

SRM: 37.5

ABV: 5.8%