hopefully a decent coffee porter (my first)

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i'm going to brew this beer hopefully in the very near future (within the next couple weeks). it's going to be a porter (crossing fingers) and probably/possibly a coffee porter. the idea is to primary it and then pull a glass off when i transfer to secondary and add brewed coffee to it until it's "right" (if i can get there from here) and then add accordingly and bottle after the fourth week.

here is what i'm thinking. i bought all the extra light dme i could find and had to buy a bag of dark to get the gravity to where i wanted it.

6 lbs extra light dme
3 lbs dark dme

steeping grains...
.13 lbs carafa iii
.03 lbs black patent
.03 lbs de-bittered black
.5 lbs crystal 60
.13 lbs biscuit
.19 lbs special roast

(1.01 lbs total grain)

1 oz kent goldings @ 60
1 oz palisades @ 60
1 oz kent goldings @ 30
1 oz kent goldings @ 0
1 oz kent goldings (dry hop, the last week of secondary)

2 packages of safale us-05

estimates....
og 1.082
fg 1.017
color 23 deg. L
45 IBU


this will be my first porter and i really want it to be a coffee porter.

 

[deepsouth]

this is where it ended up..... i cold brewed (36 hours) about 5.5 cups of water with about 7 ounces of coarsely crushed super fresh mockhorn island shade tree coffee, bird friendly and whatnot, etc... yield was 32 ounces of pure coffee goodness. total yield was just under 5 gallons after losing over a gallon through the blow-off tube. ran some samples yesterday with the coffee and i have high expectations. the og was 1.082 and it finished at 1.021. 8.2% abv, 32 ibu

hops.....

1 oz. palisades (8.3%a, pellet) @ 60
1 oz. kent goldings (5.5%a, pellet) @ 30
1 oz. kent goldings (5%a, pellet) @ 0

grains.....

.13 lbs carafa iii
.25 lbs black patent
.5 lbs crystal 60
.19 lbs biscuit
.19 lbs special roast
.19 lbs special b
.13 lbs caramunich

extract.....

6 lbs extra light dme
3 lbs dark dme

yeast

safale s-04 (x2)