This was a special brewing session. With the help of a few friends, Ash and Jenny, I brewed live on Instagram a version of Weathered Soul’s ‘Black is Beautiful’ Imperial Oatmeal Stout to raised donations for the ACLU. We managed to raise $500 in only a few hours.
If you want to join us in donating to the ACLU (you can consider it a personal favor to me if you enjoy my videos) click here: https://action.aclu.org/give/fund-every-fight-ahead. While I often brew solo, beer is about community and the beautiful thing about LA is how diverse our beer community is. I’m proud to be a part of homebrew clubs like SoCal Cerveceros who advocate for inclusivity and representation. I’ll stand by them when I say: We are Anti-Racism and Pro-Homebrew! It’s not enough to say that though- we all have to work to bring positive change in our respective industries and for me, it’s through beer. That’s why I joined San Antonio’s Weathered Soul’s Brewing initiative “Black is Beautiful,” which is a collaborative effort amongst the brewing community to bring awareness to the injustices that the black community and people of color face daily.
To get involved or find out more details on the campaign which now has over 180 breweries involved – please go to https://blackisbeautiful.beer/
Let’s do our part.
Note: This brew day video is a condensed version of the original livestream but I made sure to leave in all of the songs Jenny made up about brewing.
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Black is Beautiful
9.2% / 20.3 °P
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All Grain
BIAB (No sparge)
70% efficiency
Batch Volume: 5.5 gal
Boil Time: 60 min
Mash Water: 7.88 gal
Total Water: 7.88 gal
Boil Volume: 6.4 gal
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.070
Vitals
Original Gravity: 1.084
Final Gravity: 1.014
IBU (Tinseth): 73
Color: 55 SRM
Mash
Strike Temp — 161.1 °F
Temperature — 152.6 °F — 45 min
Malts (16 lb 8 oz)
12 lb (68.6%) — Briess Brewers Malt 2-Row — Grain — 1.8 SRM
2 lb (11.4%) — Briess Oats, Flaked — Grain — 1.4 SRM
1 lb (5.7%) — Bairds Chocolate Malt — Grain — 500 SRM
8 oz (2.9%) — Black (Patent) Malt — Grain — 500 SRM
8 oz (2.9%) — Briess Caramel Malt — Grain — 120 SRM
Other (1 lb)
1 lb (5.7%) — Briess Dextrose — Sugar — 1 SRM
Hops (5 oz)
1 oz (42 IBU) — Columbus (Tomahawk) 14.9% — Boil — 60 min
2 oz (19 IBU) — Cascade fridge 5.7% — Boil — 20 min
2 oz (12 IBU) — Cascade fridge 5.7% — Boil — 10 min
Miscs
6.7 g — Calcium Chloride (CaCl2) — Mash
6.8 g — Gypsum (CaSO4) — Mash
Yeast
2 pkg — White Labs WLP001 California Ale
Fermentation
Primary — 65 °F — 14 days
Carbonation: 2.4 CO2-vol
Water Profile
Ca+2 150
Mg+2 10
Na+ 40
Cl– 138
SO4-2 142
HCO3– 151
