I used whole coffee beans in a coffee blonde and it was pretty awesome. I used 1 cup of whole beans in a 5 gallon batch, put them in 5 days before cold crashing.
I know this is an old thread but I thought I would add. No one ever seemed to mention the 'back pressure' spring assembly. If the OP is getting all foam, then it sounds like they have the spring assembly set too low, so that they are shooting 14 PSI beer into 4 PSI atmosphere. That will result...
Nobody really answered his quesiton - and I have the same one. I
am going to build my own CFC, but I'm curious what people do about the trub that usually settles out in the kettle using my IC. Now that stuff is going to fall into my fermenter. How do people handle this?