brewzombie
Well-Known Member
Anyone worried about the need to sanitize coffee before adding it to the secondary/primary/bottling bucket etc?
I want to add cold-brewed coffee to a stout. I'm planning on cold-brewing the coffee overnight in the fridge (2 oz in 4 cups sanitized water) and then adding the filtered coffee into the primary after 3 weeks and bottling at 4 weeks. I came across some posts regarding sanitizing the beans in vodka etc and thought maybe I could simply things and still get good results by briefly microwaving the cold-brewed coffee (1 min?). But that would definitely change the flavor somewhat.
Does anyone bother to sanitize the beans before grinding them? If so, how? Maybe just soak the beans in vodka for a few minutes?
I want to add cold-brewed coffee to a stout. I'm planning on cold-brewing the coffee overnight in the fridge (2 oz in 4 cups sanitized water) and then adding the filtered coffee into the primary after 3 weeks and bottling at 4 weeks. I came across some posts regarding sanitizing the beans in vodka etc and thought maybe I could simply things and still get good results by briefly microwaving the cold-brewed coffee (1 min?). But that would definitely change the flavor somewhat.
Does anyone bother to sanitize the beans before grinding them? If so, how? Maybe just soak the beans in vodka for a few minutes?