Questions tagged [coffee]
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Fermenting used coffee grounds
This 2013 article, ScienceShot: A Shot of Coffee That Gets You Drunk | Science | AAAS talks about how used coffee grounds are being tested as a base for fermentation, but doesn't give specific details....
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Cold Brew Coffee with Ginger bug fermentation
I like experimenting with different liquids aside from ginger tea and was wondering if cold brew coffee would be viable for a fermentation.
I was not sure if the acidity of the instant coffee would ...
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Comparing Espresso Stout to a Coffee Stout
I'm curious to hear everyone's take on the differences that they perceive in an espresso stout vs a coffee stout. Is this something that you would classify as a widely different beer or very similar? ...
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Specific gravity after adding cold-pressed coffee?
Like an amateur, I forgot to measure my cold-pressed coffee's gravity before combining in secondary. Anybody have an estimate of the gravity of a 24-hour cold-pressed steep?
I started with 36 ounces ...
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Just brewed a "White Stout" - Looking for feedback on additives
I recently tried a "White Stout" at Track 7 brewery in Sacramento, CA. It completely hit me off guard when I saw the color of it and tasted coffee and chocolate.
Trying to replicate, my brother and a ...
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Chocolate and Coffee Additions
I am going to be brewing the Zymurgy KBS clone, but a little nervous with some of the additions listed:
2.5 oz Belg Bittersweet Choc and 1.5 oz unsweetened cocoa nibs @ 15 mins.
***I read that ...
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Cold brewed coffee
I have a recipe that calls for adding a gallon of cold brewed coffee in the secondary. The comments have described how to cold brew it, but I was wondering, do I need to add the grounds plus the ...
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Would coffee wine be at all similar in taste to Kahlua?
I'm interested in brewing kind of a coffee wine. Would it taste at all like Kahlua? I imagine the coffee flavor would be slightly weaker. Recipes for it I've seen have described the taste as "unique" ...
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How much coffee (approx) would go into a 2 Gallon brew?
Im new to homebrewing (this'll be my 3rd batch ever, but only my second with this kit) using a Mr Beer 2 gallon kit. Im making an American Porter (from extract) and want to impart some coffee flavors ...
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First time without a kit
Ok, so I'm a relatively new brewer. I've done probably 10 brews, however I've always done it out of a kit and have kegged it afterwards. Brewing from a kit is super easy, it's basically boil it, ...
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Increasing the 'caramel and coffee tones' of my porter
A pub and brewery in town does a delicious porter with caramel and coffee tones. What particular ingredients do I need to add to my mash to achieve this?
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Most Feasible method to add Grains of Coffee in Porter Style
I have seen someone added coffee in a stout beer, I want to use it in batch of my beer (18 liters), to do so I have two ideas:
To combine grains of coffee with mash.
Make an espresso and add it to ...
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Adding coffee without secondary
There are several questions about adding coffee, but the best results always seem to result from adding the coffee at secondary fermentation. I simply don't have a second vessel so this is not an ...
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Will bitterness from a flameout coffee addition fade with age?
I recently brewed an Imperial Stout with some coffee additions. While I didn't boil the coffee for long (warm steeped 3oz beans and pitched grounds and two cups of brew at flameout), it did lend some ...
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What does it mean when a recipe calls for a boil addition of coffee in pounds, but also mentions brewing the coffee?
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I know that there are a bunch of different, hotly debated opinions on how/when to add coffee to beers. I'm much too new to be a loyalist, but I am confused: I'm brewing a Russian Imperial ...
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Coffee Beans for Homebrewing [closed]
I'm planning to brew a Coffee Oatmeal Stout in a couple of weeks and was curious about what kind of coffee beans most people use in their homebrews. I was thinking about roasting some beans myself ...
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Style Question: How does a stout become a porter?
Have never made a porter, but may have done so by accident. Was trying to make an American coffee stout, but haven't done much extract brewing in awhile, and probably didn't have enough water volume ...
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Appropriate Stout Style for Chicory, Coffee (and more!)
In Radical Brewing, Randy Mosher has a great section on 10 ways to improve stout brewing (including home-roasting flaked oats/funky grains). I plan on employing several of these techniques, including ~...
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Adding Chocolate & Coffee to Secondary
6.6 lbs. (3.0 kg) Briess light, unhopped, malt extract
1.7 lbs. (0.77 kg) light dry extract
22 oz. (0.62 kg) flaked oats
1.0 lb. (0.45 kg) chocolate malt (350 °L)
12 oz. (0.34 kg) roast barley ...
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Will Campden disinfect flavoring additions in a primary?
I know that adding Campden kills yeasts. But I read recipes for beers that talk about soaking additional flavoring agents (like coffee beans and chocolate nibs) in vodka to disinfect them, before ...
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Secondary flavoring of a stout using chocolate and coffee, how much to use?
I am brewing an Imperial Stout (OG 1.081) and it is in primary now. I want to rack to secondary in one gallon jugs and want to flavor each differently. I have read through the coffee posts on here but ...
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How to add coffee/chicory to beer?
We have made a few coffee beers. Once we used a cheap coffee by brewing a strong pot and adding to the boil. It turned out very acidic. The next beer we brewer we went with a little higher OG 1.070 ...
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Using coffee in beer
Last weekend I brewed a super classic, nothing special stout. I plan to add coffee to it in the secondary, and didn't want any craziness from the stout itself so that I could really play with the ...
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