Started out accidental. I was sipping on a coffee oatmeal stout homebrew when the pizza man cometh. Life’s crazy right now, so not much cooking. We went with an old favorite, chicken, feta, sundried tomato, and garlic from Yankee Pizzeria.
My first instinct was to polish off the stout before digging into dinner. “Coffee stout won’t [...]
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Just to prove the veracity of an earlier comment, I paired up a bottle of the St-Ambroise Oatmeal Stout with a few nubs of dark chocolate (72%, “Endangered Species” brand from Whole Foods, which helps support efforts to preserve endangered species). I think the chocolate here may have actually been just a tad too bitter, [...]
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Meh. While malty beers generally may go well with red meat, I find stouts very hard to pair outside of the dessert world. They typically go great with stuff like chocolate and cheesecake. But with main courses, not so much. Stout + Philly cheese steak is actually pretty rank. It may be a challenge peculiar [...]
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This is the flip side of Danner’s recent visit to the J Clyde where he had a Good People Brewing Co. IPA followed by an Olde Towne Amber with his fried green tomato BLT. I also had two beers with a sandwich. My first was the long-anticipated GPBC Coffee Oatmeal Stout. The sandwich: a roast [...]
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As promised, here is my review.
It’s fantastic.
Appearance is a deep opaque dark brown. I think the coffee actually may have shifted this from black to dark brown.
Aroma is almost 100% coffee. It’s a bit shocking, actually.
The first sip is like the aroma, almost 100% coffee, and intense. And you start to think this is overdone. [...]
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We brewed the coffee oatmeal stout yesterday. Well, for now it’s just an oatmeal stout. Coffee will be added after primary fermentation is complete.
And FYI, Good People brewed up the big batch a week ago and it will be going live in select establishments around Birmingham soon. I’ll announce it here when [...]
This is now the third post in a series i’m writing about my hands-on research to develop a recipe for a coffee oatmeal stout. Here’s the first part, and the second part is here.
When i last reported on my adventures, i was preparing for an experiment to soak different amounts of coffee for different [...]
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Following up on this post, the tasting of hopped coffee-infused oatmeal stout is complete.
Five people participated. I am the only hardcore beer geek out of the group, the other four are all baristas. We tried three samples of oatmeal stout, each sample featuring a different hopped coffee. The hop/coffee combinations were 1) [...]
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So yesterday i headed over to Primavera Coffee Roasters for a highly unusual event.
I’m designing a Coffee Oatmeal Stout and i want to use Primavera-roasted coffee in it, as it is both local and generally awesome coffee. I emailed Brett (owner/proprietor of Primavera) about it and made an appointment to do a tasting featuring [...]
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