Cold press coffee

[breweringbeaz]

What's the best suggestion for coffee to water ratio for cold pressing. I'm planning on adding it at kegging. I want very little water going into the keg (don't want to change the abv or water down the beer).

 

[BlueHouseBrewhaus]

Try 4 oz coffee to 2 cups boiled and cooled water. My last mocha stout I did 8 oz coffee in secondary and it took forever to mellow out. It depends on the coffee. A lot of people use Kona since it is smoother and mellower. You might also just try adding a little at a time to your bottling bucket until you get the flavor you want.

 

[Tinpanharry]

Try 4 oz coffee to 2 cups boiled and cooled water. My last mocha stout I did 8 oz coffee in secondary and it took forever to mellow out. It depends on the coffee. A lot of people use Kona since it is smoother and mellower. You might also just try adding a little at a time to your bottling bucket until you get the flavor you want.

+1 for adding a little at a time till you get what you want.

 

[ZebulonBrewer]

When I did my breakfast stout, I had two coffee additions. 2 oz at flameout and 2 oz into secondary. 4oz total sounds about right. My addition was split because that's what my friend's recipe said, and it turned out great.

 

[sboyajian]

I know this will sound like a travesty, but I took ground espresso and put it in a MyKCup and stuck it in my Keurig.

Did 8 oz, cooled it down in the fridge and added it to my secondary (split batch of 3 gallons of chocolate oatmeal stout). Was probably the best beer I've ever made.

 

[Wolfbayte]

Try 4 oz coffee to 2 cups boiled and cooled water.

4 oz coffee by weight or volume?

 

[ThomasPaine]

I buy 32 oz of cold pressed coffee concentrate from Whole Foods and add the whole thing to 5 gal at bottling. I used Yooper's Oatmeal Stout recipe and it came out great. Lots of coffee flavor with no off flavors that come from a poorly brewed coffee. Of course a lot of people want to brew the coffee themselves for obvious reasons. I like the thought of concentrate (less water).

 

[RedneckEngineer]

I just bottled a coffee porter today and I am hoping it mellows out in the bottle. I bought it as a beer in a box kit that had everything in it. It said add coffee to taste, which I just added all the coffee I made. Right now all I can taste is bitter coffee masking what was tasting like a good porter. The cold brew coffee was 6oz of coarse ground coffee with 6 cups of water. Let sit for 12-24 hours in fridge.

Don't do what I just did and add all the coffee at once. Add a little at a time and taste it.

 

[BlueHouseBrewhaus]

Redneck, the coffee flavor will mellow. I had the same thing happen with mine. Took about 4 months to mellow out. My next batch I will do the "a bit at a time" method.