TYPES OF COFFEE T here are some oldhomebrew recipes forcoffee beer that call foradding instant coffeeas an ingredient. Thankfully, wonderful coffee from around the world is widely available today. As with making beer, search for the freshest ingredients that taste great on their own. Using a strong coffee such as espresso or French roast will provide a richer coffee essence, while lighter blends like Sumatra or Guatemala Antigua will bring out subtler qualities. Some of the darker roasts like French or Italian are very bitter. Taste the coffee alone, and judge the bitterness it will add. If needed, adjust the hop additions in your recipe to offset this extra bitterness. This may not always be the case, however, since the variety sweet on their own and may need more hops. Brewing and brewing. of coffee and how you use it will determine its bitterness level. Some varieties are subtly Furthermore Beer brews a coffee lager called Oscura. According to the brewer, hop bitterness is actually increased to offset the sweet flavor of unbrewed coffee. Instead of brewing the coffee, they soak the whole beans in the beer during cold maturation, where the alcohol extracts the delicate aromatics that would be lost in boiling or brewing the coffee hot. They use an organic, shade-grown coffee from the La FEM Grower Cooperative in Nicaragua that is available at www.justcoffee. BRINGING THE malts in the recipe.The lager style really highlights thecoop.bright coffee aromatics, which can sometimesbe covered up in darker beers with roasted TWO TOGETHER Stouts, and Brown Ales. Specialty or seasonal coffees are an easyway to add interesting flavors and aromas tobeer. Chocolate raspberry, pumpkin spice, orSouthern pecan would work well in Porters, How you approach making a coffee beer depends on the You can also get coffee flavors without style you’re going to pair. Stouts and Porters go well with coffee, but actually using coffee. Roasted barley will they often have bold, coffee-like flavors on their own. Bolder beer styles may require impart coffee characters in beer. Stouts and a higher dose of coffee for a good balance and to prevent them from fading into the Robust Porters can have a distinct coffee background too much. flavor just from the malt. If you’re leaning toward a paler beer, less coffee might be in order so it doesn’t One specialty grain that does just that is Franco Belges Coffee malt. When added to a clash with or cover up the subtle flavors. Though they’re not as common, there are recipe, it imparts a pleasant coffee flavor. It is some tasty examples on the market that are beyond coffee added to a dark beer style. typically used in Stouts, Porters, Brown Ales, Mikkeller releases a coffee IPA made with lightly toasted Ethiopian coffee and and Scottish Ales. American hops. Kavove Pivo is a coffee-flavored lager brewed in Prague, Czech Republic, which proves you can work coffee into just about any style. :35
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