paulthenurse
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So I made a Porter last week that I wanted to tinker with. I picked up a few ounces of cocoa beans and was told buy the storekeeper that you could roast them for 25-30 minutes and grind them and have cocoa powder. I wanted to add the cocoa pwder to the porter, the rhinheitsgebolt be damned. The porte r has a nice taste but I think it would be really great with a bit of added choclolate. I roasted the beans in the toaster oven for 30 minutes at 300 degress as the tag on the package suggested. It smelled quite nice, sort of brought me back to my childhood and Mom making cookies. I let them cool and then ground them up in a coffee grinder and it smells like ass. What happened? How can they smell so great when whole and so bad when ground? I didn't over grind them/ I didn't burn them, infact i think I could have roasted them a touch longer as the powder tended to clump up in the grinder. (I'm atributing that to internal moisture that might have disipated if I'd cooked them a bit longer?) I haven't added them to the beer and I haven't thrown them out yet. Will the chocolate flavor come out if I toss the powder in the beer or will I end up with Asslick Chocolate Porter?