GF Coffee Sweet Stout - Kaldi's Heresey

At the request of a fellow brewer, here is my favorite stout recipe. I have been working on this for about 3 years now. We just took this to a local homebrew competition and managed 2nd place out of 43. I also talked to one of the judges afterword. He told me that we came very close to taking BOS and they were very torn. I will take it as a moral win. He said this stout was very well balanced and was everything you could ask for.

I added 7mL of Safbrew L (I think). I don't have the packaging here. I can find out Wednesday if anyone is interested. Also, I was going to replace .75# of Dark Roast Millet with .5# of Gas Hog but, I didn't have any Gas Hog. With how well this beer went over, I might not do it next time either.

Recipe: Kaldi's Heresey v3
Brewer: Osedax
Style: Sweet Stout
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (30.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 12.00 gal
Post Boil Volume: 10.00 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 10.00 gal
Bottling Volume: 9.75 gal
Estimated OG: 1.061 SG
Estimated Color: 40.3 SRM
Estimated IBU: 28.1 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 74.4 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
17 lbs White Millet (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 51.9 %
3 lbs 4.0 oz Vienna White Millet (3.0 SRM) Grain 2 9.9 %
2 lbs Corn, Flaked (1.3 SRM) Grain 3 6.1 %
1 lbs 8.0 oz Dark Rice Malt (250.0 SRM) Grain 4 4.6 %
1 lbs 8.0 oz Dark Roasted White Millet (406.0 SRM) Grain 5 4.6 %
1 lbs 8.0 oz Light Crystal White Millet (15.0 SRM) Grain 6 4.6 %
1 lbs 8.0 oz Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 7 4.6 %
8.0 oz Crystal Rice Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 8 1.5 %
8.0 oz James' Brown Rice Malt (29.0 SRM) Grain 9 1.5 %
1.00 oz Challenger [8.90 %] - First Wort 90.0 mi Hop 10 22.6 IBUs
2 lbs Milk Sugar (Lactose) (0.0 SRM) Sugar 11 6.1 %
1 lbs D-180 Candi Syrup (180.0 SRM) Sugar 12 3.1 %
1.00 oz Challenger [8.90 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 13 5.5 IBUs
8.0 oz Brown Sugar, Dark [Boil for 15 min](50.0 Sugar 14 1.5 %
1.0 pkg Safale American (DCL/Fermentis #US-05) [ Yeast 15 -
24.00 oz Coffee (Secondary 7.0 days) Flavor 16 -


Mash Schedule: My Mash - Full Body
Total Grain Weight: 32 lbs 12.0 oz
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Gel Rest Add 10.97 gal of water at 164.5 F 163.0 F 15 min
Saccharification Add 0 gal of water and heat to 155.0 155.0 F 60 min
Mash Out Heat to 168.0 F over 10 min 168.0 F 10 min

Sparge: Batch sparge with 5.82 gal water at 168.0 F


We were very popular that day. We ran the beer through a randall filled with whole coffee beans and dark chocolate. We even had a few people offer to buy the rest of the keg on the spot. We started handing out full cups under the table towards the end instead of the small tasting glasses. Free of course because we are just that nice!

My co-brewers being entertaining:

Congratulations and thanks for the recipe!!

Thanks for posting!

Sorry to keep harping on price, but what was your cost per 5 gallons for this recipe?

PhillyBrewer said:

Thanks for posting!

Sorry to keep harping on price, but what was your cost per 5 gallons for this recipe?

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I don't normally keep track of that because it can be depressing. I can factor exact cost if you want but, this probably cost me about $90-$100 for 10 gallons. Just looking at the malt it looks like maybe $60-$70. Lactose, candi syrup, and brown sugar might have added another $15. Then hops, yeast, and coffee added another $20. I bet you could make this for $50 for 5 gallons or $25 a case. You would have to harvest yeast and cut a few corners but, you could do it.

Keep in mind that this doesn't factor, chemicals, electricity, water, or time. Just raw ingredients. Also, my millet purchase comes in bulk and I managed to pay about $3 a pound last round.

Alright, I got curious about it. Looks like $115.80 for raw ingredients before the price of coffee. This assumes 1) pale malt costs me $2.85 a pound 2) special malts cost me $3.35 a pound 3) shipping on the rice is inconsequential 4) you have brown sugar laying around your house and is therefore freeish.

Like I said, you could cut corners a little bit to bring the price down. In the end it cost me about $30 a case excluding less tangible costs.

Awesome Recipe.
Just curious why the rice and not more special millet malts? Going for ABV%

brwmistr said:

Awesome Recipe.
Just curious why the rice and not more special millet malts? Going for ABV%

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I had the rice on hand and I think the Eckert specialty malts are great. It must have something to due with the fact that rice has a hull and millet doesn't. Roasted rice malt is much more roasty than roasted millet malt. Just my impression but, it is much harder to achieve classic stout taste with just millet.