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Procrastination Oatmeal Porter

Vital Statistics: Batch Number: 8 Style: Porter Brew Date: 4 October 2009 Original Gravity: 1.064 (15.67 °Plato) Final Gravity: 1.010 (2.56 °Plato) ABV: 7.1% ABW: 5.5% Calories per pint: 275 Estimated IBU (Rager): 36.7 Estimated IBU (Tinseth): 26.2 Mash Temperature: 147° Mash Efficiency: 79% Days in Primary: 13 (into secondary on 17 October 2009) Days in Secondary: 11 (bottled on 28 October 2009) Yeast Used: 1084 Irish Ale Apparent Attenuation: 84% Real Attenuation: 69% Rating: 3.70 Entirely Consumed: Yes (finished 27 July 2010) Availability: 272 days	Recipe: 9 lb 2-row pale malt 1 lb flaked oats 8 oz chocolate malt 8 oz crystal 60° 4 oz roated barley 5.5 AAU (39g @ 4% AA) Fuggles @ 60 3.5 AAU (20g @ 4.9% AA) East Kent Goldings @ 60 1 Irish Moss tablet @ 15 min Wyeast 1084 - Irish Ale
General Notes: This was supposed to be a stout, but ended up more porter-looking.
Tasting Notes: Tasting notes taken 1/27/2010. Poured from bomber into a tulip. Appearance: quite black/dark brown with a ruby tinge when held up to the light. Head is a light tan and two fingers in depth, generously helped by the tulip glass, and dissipated rather quickly. Perhaps I could have called this a stout after all. (4) Smell: very rich coffee aroma. There is a little sweetness and chocolate with some alcoholey fruit flavor around the edge, but these characteristics are quite subtle and offer a nice complement to the coffee malt aroma. (4) Taste: very smooth coffee flavor. Hops come through a little and are floral in nature; they complement the malt profile pretty well. There's a bit of an over-bitterness which might be either the hops or the roast malts; I bet tuning these down in the future would help this a little bit. Overall, it's alright; could be better, but by no means bad. (3.5) Mouthfeel: body is on the light side of medium and has a little bit of an astringent quality, but this bottle carbonated up quite nicely. The well-integrated carb yields a creamy yet silky texture which I quite like. (4) Drinkability: quite drinkable despite the 7.1% wallop it packs. I could probably back off the IBUs a little bit and with my improved mashing techniques end up with a pretty respectable Baltic porter. Sadly, the astringency and bitterness are somewhat cumulative, so it's not quite a session brew. (3) Overall score of 3.7 (B). Not bad, really, but it could definitely use some fine-tuning to improve it. 7/27/2010: additional notes taken a nice round 6 months since the official tasting. Tonight, I'm drinking the last bottle of Procrastination. While most of the above comments are still relevant, I want to note that the astringency is dialed way back from January. A bottle-conditioned brew really is a living thing.
Hops Table Hop Variety Addition Time AAU AA% Quantity (g) Type IBU (Rager) IBU (Tinseth) Notes Fuggles 60 5.50 4.0 39 Pellet 22.4 16.0   East Kent Goldings 60 3.50 4.9 20 Pellet 14.3 10.2