Overview

Info: 5 gallon all-grain coffee stout
Brewed: December 16, 2007
Kegged: January 2008
OG: 1.062
FG: 1.028
ABV: 4.7%
XLS

Ingredients

Grains
  • 10 lbs Maris Otter Pale Malt
  • 0.25 lbs Crystal 40L
  • 0.5 lbs English Chocolate Malt
  • 0.25 lbs English Roasted Barley
  • 0.5 lbs Belgian De-bittered Black Malt
  • 0.5 lbs Wheat Malt
Adjuncts
  • 0.75 lbs lactose
Hops
  • 1 oz Chinook 12.4% AA (60 min)
  • 0.5 oz Fuggle 4.7% AA (5 min)
Other
  • Illy ground espresso beans, equivalent of 8 shots, added for last 5 minutes of boil
Yeast
  • Safale English Ale Dry

Brewing Notes

This is an adaptation of my milk stout recipe, with a couple more grains, some extra hops, and some coffee added.

I did this mash/sparge using a 3rd iteration of the setup with my keggles, this time using a very hot HLT, so that the grain bed was in the 160-170 F range during the whole sparge, and I also did a much finer crush on the grain. Efficiency was 77%!

Final beer was absolutely delicious. The bitterness from the 2 year-old coffee was a little obvious at first, but after a month or so of aging, toned down a bit. Still, a very good beer.