Brew Day
Solomon's Oatmeat Stout (Imperial Stout)
16# pale ale malt 1# chocolate male, 1# roast barley, 1# steel cut oats
4 gallons 130 degree water. Raise to 150 degrees at 60 minutes. Total mash time 100 minutes.

sparge 8 gallons 170 degree water

boil to 6.5 gallons. hop with 35 gm chinook 12.1% alpha 45 minutes.

boil to ~6.0 gallons
o.g. 1.064 (target f.g 1.014 - 7.4% ABV)
pitch 1056 american ale yeast.

I brewed this on my son Solomon's birthday in 1994, in 1993 I brewed it a couple of days prior. O.G has usually been over 1.074, I've had it as high as 1.095, mostly due to length of boil.