Oats have a long tradition as a specialty ingredient in beer, although few breweries made much ado about oats outside of oatmeal stouts until the last several years. But the surge of popularity of oats in the craft brewing world, starting with stouts and then exploding with hazy IPAs, has made oats a staple in many homebrewers’ grain bins. There are certain qualities to oats that make them distinct from the more “traditional” cereal brewing grains, namely wheat and barley.
Oats add bouth feel and and be used with any beer style but it is particularly useflu for Stout beers for a that rich creamy mouth feel.
