zam216
Well-Known Member
So I entered 3 beers in a local competition this weekend, one being a founders breakfast stout clone recipe. One thing the judges and myself noticed in the beer was a green pepper, as they described, off flavor. I got the same thing with this beer after about a week in the keg. I have done some research on why this would happen and the only thing I have found was the coffee. This has recently happened to me on another coffee stout I did so it makes sense. For this past recipe I used the 2 different types of coffee the recipe calls for one in the boil and one cold brewed in the secondary. I used coffee grounds. for the boil I threw them right in at knockout and cooled quickly. The cold brew I put the grounds into a mason jar with room temp water and let it sit for 24 hours and strained through a sanitized coffee filters and pitched right into the carboy. Prior to pitching it tasted fine just like coffee and the wort coming out of the boil was fine.
The recipe follows:
13lb 2 row
1lb 6oz flaked oats
1lb chocolate malt
12oz roasted barley
9oz black patent (I think I subbed this out for another black malt)
7oz crystal 120
.5oz nugget 60 mins
.5oz willamette 30 mins
2.5oz dark bittersweet bakers chocolate 15 mins boil
1.5oz cocoa nibs 15 mins boil
2oz ground sumatran coffee knockout
2oz ground kona coffee cold brewed secondary
WLP001
I use sanitary practices and clean and sanitize everything and keep it wet with star san prior to using so I doubt it was an infection. The judges said the base stout was very well done but the coffee and pepper over powered. I would love to fix this problem to work on this beer and others like it for the future.
The recipe follows:
13lb 2 row
1lb 6oz flaked oats
1lb chocolate malt
12oz roasted barley
9oz black patent (I think I subbed this out for another black malt)
7oz crystal 120
.5oz nugget 60 mins
.5oz willamette 30 mins
2.5oz dark bittersweet bakers chocolate 15 mins boil
1.5oz cocoa nibs 15 mins boil
2oz ground sumatran coffee knockout
2oz ground kona coffee cold brewed secondary
WLP001
I use sanitary practices and clean and sanitize everything and keep it wet with star san prior to using so I doubt it was an infection. The judges said the base stout was very well done but the coffee and pepper over powered. I would love to fix this problem to work on this beer and others like it for the future.