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This is right in line with the method and amounts I've used for cold brewing coffee for my mocha stout. I believe it ended up with about 32 ounces of cold brewed coffee that I added to my beer.

I add cold brewed coffee to my mocha stout when I keg it. As noted above, cold brew coffee will give you a very smooth, mellow and non-acidic coffee flavor to your stout. In my mind the beer's bitterness should come from the hops used rather unintended coffee bitterness.

I don't really subscribe to set time frames for beer to be ready to drink. I'd call those minimums really, but if it's ready before that, drink up. I think beersmith had default values for the times that were defaulted to something real low (like a couple of days each or something) so I just...

This is a bit late for you... Anyway, for future reference you could store the cold-brewed coffee for at least a couple of days but eventually it will go bad. Couldn't tell you what the short mash time on the oats would do, but I'm sure you still made beer :cross: To answer another...

Nope, we use a pound of very coarsely ground coffee and fill our pitcher with water in it. Then it gets filtered and we generally end up with 28-32 ounces of cold-brewed coffee. I add all of the coffee to my 5 gallon batches when I keg them. The filtering/straining takes a little while, but...

Top half is Mcaustin's Mocha Stout, bottom half is Angry Amber!

I tried a Javamber last night... My Mocha Stout poured on top of my Amber, and it actually tasted really good! Had another tonight.

Smoked pork shoulder

Dual chickens smoked on the Traeger, after a brewday.

"1 lb" bag of Amarillo opened up prior to packaging in the Food Saver!

1 lb each of Galena, Centennial and Amarillo.

Be sure to post up how you like it! I have a pair of 6.5 gallon minibrew conicals and love them. I'd sure like something in the 15 gallon size as well.

Here's the latest all-grain version of my Mocha Stout that I brewed last: Grain: 9.0 lbs 2-row 1.5 lbs Crystal 60L 1.0 lb barley, flaked .75 lb roasted barley .50 lb chocolate malt Hops: 60 min 1 oz Northern Brewer 20 min 0.75 oz Fuggles Other: 15 min 8.5 oz lactose...

Dudadiesel chiller ready for mounting to my brewstand.