Today, I brewed an Oatmeal Stout. It was a really smooth brew day, everything went right.

I used a different base malt than I usually do – Munich I Malt. I also used Caraaroma instead of Crystal, and of course, this brew included oats!

We also bottled the Pacific Pale ale we brewed about a month ago. Fermentation was the most vigorous I have ever seen for this beer. It was constantly bubbling for a week! Normally things slow down after a few days. I am still a bit worried about it – it tastes ok, but it reached a final gravity of 1.007 (much lower than I expected it to go) which may suggest a wild yeast infection.

I also did a bottle count today, and figured out that I have 84 bottles (63 Litres) of beer.

Pics of todays brew are below.