Very good eventually. Fruity, granola-y, maple-y, very nice oatmeal notes. Boost peach and drop apricot. This one needs time to rest at fridge temps once it is in keg, and it poured out fruit sludge for a couple pints so clearly better filtration is needed.
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This was a bear of a brew - tons of oats. DO NOT SKIP GLUCAN REST and ADD RICE HULLS. The hot break was.....substantial. At kegging time, I filtered through a nut milk bag to get out fruit puree, which took ages, squeezing the bag with sanitized hands, and definitely allowed oxygenation of the beer. Need to cold crash or something before filtering/kegging. It tasted like death and rotten fruit for about 3~4 months of fridge time, then suddenly it mellowed out and tasted like a fresh delicious peach cobbler. The apricot was added because internet people suggested a 50/50 blend would boost the peach perception, but it slightly overwhelmed them and it was distinctly 'apricot' versus peach. If I ever muster the courage to brew this again, I would do 80/20 peach/apricot or full peach, would add 1/4 cinnamon stick at flameout, and would have a better filtering plan - multi-step larger mesh bags would do it well. It just clogged up the small nut milk bags too much and led to a very stressful brew time. Also, I would not attempt to bottle this without heavy modification or pasteurization when bottled.
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This was a bear of a brew - tons of oats. DO NOT SKIP GLUCAN REST and ADD RICE HULLS. The hot break was.....substantial. At kegging time, I filtered through a nut milk bag to get out fruit puree, which took ages, squeezing the bag with sanitized hands, and definitely allowed oxygenation of the beer. Need to cold crash or something before filtering/kegging. It tasted like death and rotten fruit for about 3~4 months of fridge time, then suddenly it mellowed out and tasted like a fresh delicious peach cobbler. The apricot was added because internet people suggested a 50/50 blend would boost the peach perception, but it slightly overwhelmed them and it was distinctly 'apricot' versus peach. If I ever muster the courage to brew this again, I would do 80/20 peach/apricot or full peach, would add 1/4 cinnamon stick at flameout, and would have a better filtering plan - multi-step larger mesh bags would do it well. It just clogged up the small nut milk bags too much and led to a very stressful brew time. Also, I would not attempt to bottle this without heavy modification or pasteurization when bottled.
5/5/2023 8:06:59 AM