All Grain Part 2 – The Recipe

So on to the next part of the all-grain plan – the recipe. We're going for an oatmeal stout as our first attempt. Something like this (based on John Palmer's Mill Run Stout) :

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All Grain Preparation – Water Quality

As part of investigation into all-grain brewing, I looked for information on water quality here in Madison. Data is available in the form of the city’s water report here. According to How to Brew by John Palmer, the most important properties of brewing water are Calcium (Ca+2), Magnesium (Mg+2), Bicarbonate (HCO3-1), Sulphate (SO4-2), Sodium (Na+) […]

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