Hello all. Thanks in advance for any advice you share.
I'm pretty new to home brewing and loving it so far. I've been brewing for a little over a year and in December traded in my Mr Beer kit for a real kit. So far with the new kit I've done about 4 batches (plus two currently in primary and secondary)and they've all turned out fantastic.
I'm about to do my first Imperial Stout from extract with some grain (Midwest Supplies recipe) and I was considering adding a few things to the recipe. I'm interested in opinions on this as well as process if you've done similar in the past with good results. I was thinking about adding some coffee beans (low acid like a Sumatra) and a vanilla bean, perhaps some cocoa nibs. My thought was to put all these in a hop bag and drop them in the last 15 minutes of the boil.
Do you think this would muddy the flavor? Is it too much?
I'm pretty new to home brewing and loving it so far. I've been brewing for a little over a year and in December traded in my Mr Beer kit for a real kit. So far with the new kit I've done about 4 batches (plus two currently in primary and secondary)and they've all turned out fantastic.
I'm about to do my first Imperial Stout from extract with some grain (Midwest Supplies recipe) and I was considering adding a few things to the recipe. I'm interested in opinions on this as well as process if you've done similar in the past with good results. I was thinking about adding some coffee beans (low acid like a Sumatra) and a vanilla bean, perhaps some cocoa nibs. My thought was to put all these in a hop bag and drop them in the last 15 minutes of the boil.
Do you think this would muddy the flavor? Is it too much?