Adding Coffee to your brew

[HeyLewis]

I have heard a few different techniques on adding coffee to your brew, but I had the thought today about adding cracked coffee beans to your mash. I would assume you would get more aroma adding the grounds/brewed coffee at flame out or in the secondary, but I haven't heard adding the coffee to the mash mentioned yet and was wondering if anybody has tried this and what the outcome would be?

 

[djfriesen]

Speculatively, I would expect a lot of bitterness from boiling the coffee beans. Maybe it wouldn't be bad, I don't know. Hopefully someone has tried it and can weigh in a little more authoritatively.

 

[Hoodweisen]

i just secondaried a batch of stout into a keg and threw in a big scoop of starbucks vanilla coffee in there. I will let u know how it is in a couple weeks.

 

[HeyLewis]

I would expect your're right about the bitterness. Im looking to do a coffee stout sometime soon, maybe if I do all three techniques I'll end up with a carbonated, alcoholic coffee lol. Might just turn out.

 

[Daybis]

I made a coffee porter last winter and it turned out pretty dang good. I just made a strong french pressed coffee with my favorite coffee and just tossed into the secondary fermenter. Next time I'll just toss the coffee in the keg and rack on top.