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 [...]
Ok, not exactly immortality, but i must say that i’m really banking heavily on the accuracy of various studies publicized in the last few years showing health benefits of two beverages i consume very regularly: coffee and craft beer.
Coffee has lots of potential upsides:
… the preponderance of scientific evidence … suggests that moderate coffee consumption [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Designing a Coffee Oatmeal Stout: The Saga Continues
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) [...]
Continue reading about More on Coffee, Hops, and Oatmeal Stouts (updated)
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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