Notes

Plan to bottle brown ale on monday (assuming the final gravity is about right)

Oatmeal stout notes:

1 - 1/2 tsp baking soda during mash for carbonate balance of acidic malts

Gonna try a very basic dry stout after the oatmeal:

Pale extract, black roasted unmalted barley, bittering hops = as basic as it gets.

I'm just shooting for a low gravity, extremely drinkable, simple dry stout. I will use probably only 1/2 cup corn sugar to bottle to simulate the low carbonation mouthfeel of the draught style of this beer.

I may make another batch of this to pitch right onto the yeast cake, except maybe I'll try some amber malt extract or some chocolate malt to see how that works with the flavor.