Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Vanilla Coffee Bean Blonde
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Paul_Aris
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So I brewed this recipe again but did not do the coffee beans because I just wanted a light beer for a wedding I was brewing for. So I did 10 gallons of it plus 10 gallons of a zombie dust clone. Brewed as the original recipe I posted made an excellent cream ale. Very tasty with the simcoe hop addition. Both beers were sucess and everyone who tried them had very positive feedback for me.
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Sounds great.
TheOrlandoGuy
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Just a heads up to everyone who's still following this thread. I used the info from some posts here and did something a bit on my own, and it came out FANTASTIC! One of the easiest beers to make, and one of my biggest hits yet. I partial mash, so you can scale up for AG by subbing my Pilsen DME with Pilsner malts.
Vanilla Coffee Blonde
5.25 Gallons
4lbs Pilsen DME
1.5lbs Wheat
1lb Pale 2-row
0.5lb Carapils
1oz Willamette @ 60mins
0.5oz Simcoe @ 15 mins
1tsp Irish Moss @ 15 mins (or fine with gelatin during kegging)
2oz WHOLE BEAN Coffee
2 Fresh Vanilla beans
Safale US-05
I mashed at 150F for 60mins to get a thinner body. 4 gallon boil.
After fermentation died down significantly, I cold crashed it at 38 degrees and added the whole coffee beans and vanilla beans into the primary.
Taste everyday until you believe the coffee/vanilla have imparted a strong enough flavor. For me, it was just 2 days! Remember blonde ales are SUPER delicate and will take to just about anything you put in there.
OG - 1.048
FG - 1.008
ABV: 5.22%
IBU: 23
SRM: 3
Vanilla Coffee Blonde
5.25 Gallons
4lbs Pilsen DME
1.5lbs Wheat
1lb Pale 2-row
0.5lb Carapils
1oz Willamette @ 60mins
0.5oz Simcoe @ 15 mins
1tsp Irish Moss @ 15 mins (or fine with gelatin during kegging)
2oz WHOLE BEAN Coffee
2 Fresh Vanilla beans
Safale US-05
I mashed at 150F for 60mins to get a thinner body. 4 gallon boil.
After fermentation died down significantly, I cold crashed it at 38 degrees and added the whole coffee beans and vanilla beans into the primary.
Taste everyday until you believe the coffee/vanilla have imparted a strong enough flavor. For me, it was just 2 days! Remember blonde ales are SUPER delicate and will take to just about anything you put in there.
OG - 1.048
FG - 1.008
ABV: 5.22%
IBU: 23
SRM: 3
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Paul_Aris
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If you want just a good drinkable summer Lawn Mower beer try this with out the coffee beans as well. Nice smooth creamy drinkable light bear with fruit like under tones.
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My Fiance and I were looking for an interesting coffee beer to brew around a month ago and I stumbled on this recipe. We decided to tweak the recipe a bit mostly for batch size, but I imagine it would be pretty darn similar. Also, instead of using French Vanilla coffee beans, we used locally roasted French Roast coffee and two vanilla beans. I was worried that the oily coffee beans would give us head retention problems and might not taste as good as I hoped. Boy was I wrong and happy to say that this is one of the best tasting, easy drinking beers that we've brewed. It's definitely NOT for people that aren't coffee lovers and I agree that this beer would taste excellent without the coffee beans as well. Below is our take on the recipe:
Frenchy Blonde:
-5 Gallon all grain (5.5 Gallons into fermenter)
Mash Efficiency: 77.8%
Original Gravity: 1.044
Final Gravity: 1.010
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9 lbs 2 Row
8 oz White Wheat Malt
4 oz Carapils/Dextrine
2 oz Honey Malt
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.63 oz Hallertauer [3.83%] boil 30 mins for 6.5 IBUs
1.05 oz Tettnang [3.46%] boil 60 mins for 12.7 IBUs
*note: left over hops from previous batches. I decided for lower IBUs
in keeping with typical Blonde bitterness.
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California ale V (White Labs #WLP051)
*Fermented in the low 70s. (70-72)
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After 1 week in primary, racked to secondary on top of
3 oz of French Roast coffee beans and
2 whole Vanilla Beans (cut open, fleshy inside removed,
whole bean chopped into smaller pieces and then added)
Racked beer into our keg 4 days later!
Frenchy Blonde:
-5 Gallon all grain (5.5 Gallons into fermenter)
Mash Efficiency: 77.8%
Original Gravity: 1.044
Final Gravity: 1.010
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9 lbs 2 Row
8 oz White Wheat Malt
4 oz Carapils/Dextrine
2 oz Honey Malt
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.63 oz Hallertauer [3.83%] boil 30 mins for 6.5 IBUs
1.05 oz Tettnang [3.46%] boil 60 mins for 12.7 IBUs
*note: left over hops from previous batches. I decided for lower IBUs
in keeping with typical Blonde bitterness.
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California ale V (White Labs #WLP051)
*Fermented in the low 70s. (70-72)
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After 1 week in primary, racked to secondary on top of
3 oz of French Roast coffee beans and
2 whole Vanilla Beans (cut open, fleshy inside removed,
whole bean chopped into smaller pieces and then added)
Racked beer into our keg 4 days later!
I ran the numbers in Brewers friend recipe builder and they seem off from yours:
1.039 OG
1.008 FG
4.07% ABV
This seems really low. What I am missing?
Thanks!
I ran the numbers in Brewers friend recipe builder and they seem off from yours:
1.039 OG
1.008 FG
4.07% ABV
What am I missing?
Thanks!
TheOrlandoGuy
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My guess is that you didn't have the exacter parameters for my system. I partial mash with a 4 gallon boil, and top off to 5.25 in the fermentor. Here's a screen cap of what my recipe in brewer's friend looks like:
Looks good, I may have to brew this in the future. As an aside I brewed a vanilla/caramel flavored coffee stout a couple years ago, and for the coffee flavor I took whole, flavored beans, put them in a baggie and smacked them with a hammer just hard enough to break the beans into large chunks. I put those into a sanitized hop sack and whirlpooled them post-boil at around 175° for 15 minutes. Then cooled to pitching temperature. Primary for 3 weeks, no secondary. The last bottle was opened at 6 months and still had a nice coffee flavor.
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Paul_Aris
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I got this one starting tomorrow morning. I will be brewing it 1st thing. My wife requested it so I am brewing it. I going to have a super hopped up citra/simocoe IPA and this on tap in at the same time.
