Roasting Green Coffee Beans for coffee and beer

[madpierre06]

There's no harm in going to 2nd crack if the beans warrant it, particularly early in the crack. From my experience, I get better body by going into the darker profiles as 95% of my coffees are espresso. If I'm going to be using the aeropress, then I certainly will go lighter. This batch were dumped right at start of 2nd, and came up a nice matte brown colour so they certainly weren't over roasted. I've had beans that actually went at their best when taken to rolling 2nd crack,

 

[klangers]

Well I don't roast my own coffee or anything like that (working on a malt plant is enough extracurricular stuff from brewing to ensure I have negative spare time!), but I am about to infuse a doppelbock with coffee.

Plan to use 250g or so in a 19L batch. Cold steeped.

Can anyone recommend a type/brand of bean/roast that's more on the sweet, full and chocolatey side?

 

[madpierre06]

Well I don't roast my own coffee or anything like that (working on a malt plant is enough extracurricular stuff from brewing to ensure I have negative spare time!), but I am about to infuse a doppelbock with coffee.

Plan to use 250g or so in a 19L batch. Cold steeped.

Can anyone recommend a type/brand of bean/roast that's more on the sweet, full and chocolatey side?

This blend is always a beauty and fits the profile you're after.

http://ministrygrounds.com.au/roasted-coffee/blends/nehemiah-blend.html

 

[peteru]

If you want to go single origin, I'd recommend Indonesian Lingtong or one of the PNG highland beans. They don't tend to produce too much astringency even when over-extracted.

 

[klangers]

Thanks guys I'll hit up some of those.

 

[Ark84]

Keen to give this a go. When people talk about cold steeping, is that ground down to a certain size? Or is that much of a muchness and we're going with it over whole beans or hot steep? Love the idea of a bit of coffee and cacao dumped in like a dry hop, mid primary ferment..

Miss roasting our own beans. Had 2 or 3 pop corn machines doing a very nice job once upon a time.

 

[koshari]

We have a behmor1600+ and the 2 things i hate are the led readout cannot be read in sunlight and the stupid lawyer function where rhe roast switchess to cool if you dont acknowledge the flashing screen (that you cannoy see in sunlight ) in time.

 

[madpierre06]

Keen to give this a go. When people talk about cold steeping, is that ground down to a certain size? Or is that much of a muchness and we're going with it over whole beans or hot steep? Love the idea of a bit of coffee and cacao dumped in like a dry hop, mid primary ferment..

Miss roasting our own beans. Had 2 or 3 pop corn machines doing a very nice job once upon a time.

When I cold steep, even for a hot steep (aeropress here), I go for a coarse grind, I have a Kyocera hand grinder for that. When adding to the beer, what I've found works for me is adding to the FV just prior to bottling. I time my cold steep for between 18 and 24 hours. I do know that others do differently. I see you mention whole beans...first time around, I split the batch and did half cold steep, half whole beasns direct to FV for 24 hours prior to bottling. The whole bean batch had more of a 'brewed' coffee flavour, whereas the cold steep additon came up full and rish. Beans had bean roasted on the medium side of light to medium, dropped at just prior to 2nd crack.

When I started roasting, I was ready to go the popcorn maker route but got my hands on a 2nd hand hottop for $400, that was probably 6 or 7 years ago now. Still going strong. Top bit of kit.

 

[claypot]

Anyone have any experience with this type of roaster:
Meant to be good for up to 750gms.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Coffee-R...792813?hash=item4b17cc012d:g:MroAAOSw~y9ZHthu

Seems to be sold in the UK under a different name some dude on amazon gave it a good review here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HU1Q7QC/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20