hoppheadIPA

Recipes 

I'm making a Java Stout. It's still in primary but I have a question. I'm brewing some super strong coffee to add to secondary. Can I just brew it and pour it in before I siphon in the beer??? Does the coffee need to be boiled to sanitize 1st???

sparkyaber

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I have made a few coffee stouts, and have never boiled the coffee. In fact I have cold steeped the coffee grounds in the refrigerator. When you boil anything coffee, it has a nack for messing with the oils, making it more bitter.

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chefchris

Recipes 

ground up your coffee beans and add them to your fermenter. let it cold steep for 24 hours then bottle/keg. I used 8 oz and it was waaaayyyy too much. Use sparingly.

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staygoldBREWING

Primary: RIS, Flanders Red, Berliner Weisse

On Tap: Brown Ale, American Stout, Pumpkin Porter, Pale Ale, Uncle Muscle's IPA, Rowsdower Canadian Dry Stout

Bottled: Berliner Weisse

I think you are confuisng circle k with a reach around. - Denny's Evil Concoctions

hoppheadIPA

Recipes 

The directions say to make 8 cups of coffee with the beans provided, then add coffee to secondary.

DavidSteel

Recipes 

I'd just cold-brew the coffee, let it sit for 24-48 hours, strain it off with a coffee filter, and use that. I put mine in my bottling bucket when I was bottling.

sparkyaber

Recipes 

I would cold steep 8 cups and add to secondary. Must be a midwest kit?

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Carboy#1 Angry Gnome RIS 2012
Carboy#2 Angry Gnome RIS 2012
Carboy#3 Black IPA
Carboy#4 Black IPA
Carboys#5-14 m-t
3 Gallon m-t
Keg#1 Hops in Session
Keg#2 Yoopper's IPA
Kegs #3-12 m-t
Bottled: Holiday Ale, RIS 2011, Chocolate Espresso Porter, Vanilla Porter, Oktoberfest, Mai Bock, Old Vine Zin, Pinot Noir, Chocolate Raspberry Port,

hoppheadIPA

Recipes 

Yes a midwest kit. How would I go about cold steeping?

sparkyaber

Recipes 

2 quart water with the coffee grouns overnight-maybe 24 hours, kept in the fridge, mix it up every once in a while......

Add the "coffee" not the grounds to the secondary.

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Carboy#1 Angry Gnome RIS 2012
Carboy#2 Angry Gnome RIS 2012
Carboy#3 Black IPA
Carboy#4 Black IPA
Carboys#5-14 m-t
3 Gallon m-t
Keg#1 Hops in Session
Keg#2 Yoopper's IPA
Kegs #3-12 m-t
Bottled: Holiday Ale, RIS 2011, Chocolate Espresso Porter, Vanilla Porter, Oktoberfest, Mai Bock, Old Vine Zin, Pinot Noir, Chocolate Raspberry Port,

chefchris

Recipes 

Well if you wanted to add it directly to the beer just crush your beans and toss em in. I didn't use a bag, just free balled it. You can put them in a hop sock. Let sit for 24 hours then rack off of it the next day.

I don't like the idea of adding water after fermentation, that's why I add them to the beer. You're going to get A LOT of coffee flavor from 8 oz.

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staygoldBREWING

Primary: RIS, Flanders Red, Berliner Weisse

On Tap: Brown Ale, American Stout, Pumpkin Porter, Pale Ale, Uncle Muscle's IPA, Rowsdower Canadian Dry Stout

Bottled: Berliner Weisse

I think you are confuisng circle k with a reach around. - Denny's Evil Concoctions

kanzimonson

Recipes 

I cold brewed some coffee for a vanilla coffee porter that turned out great.

Soak 12oz coffee ground in 1.5qt cold water at room temp for 24 hours. Strain the grounds, yielding about 1qt. I added to the cooled wort just before pitching. The coffee flavor is definitely noticeable, but still subtle enough.