Adding roasted grains post fermentation...?

[fury_tea]

I had a mishap with my grain mill resulting in semi-milled grain (if you're interested you can read the full story here: Brew day fail stories? )

It's resulted in my Baltic porter coming out A LOT lighter than I intended.

i've just kegged it but I was wondering if I can save it now by cold steeping some grain (maybe some coffee too) and adding it to the keg? I'm thinking half what the original recipe called for would get me somewhere close.

Has anyone done this?

 

[Clint]

NO!
I'd say you need to boil anything you add.

 

[fury_tea]

NO!
I'd say you need to boil anything you add.

I was just thinking I need to pasteurise it afterwards. But I might just steep the grain normally in water though and get it added in today.

 

[fury_tea]

Steeped half the roasted grains from the original recipe in 80c water for an hour, also steeped 100g of fresh ground coffee in a cup of boiling water and added both the the keg.

Going to try and leave it alone for a month or 2 now if possible.

Not got the highest of hopes for this one but if it's drinkable i'll be happy.

 

[Gerryjo]

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Steeped half the roasted grains from the original recipe in 80c water for an hour, also steeped 100g of fresh ground coffee in a cup of boiling water and added both the the keg.

Going to try and leave it alone for a month or 2 now if possible.

Not got the highest of hopes for this one but if it's drinkable i'll be happy.

Was given a tip about coffee granules if adding to beer as they're premade and food safe they can be added cold side as this takes away the bitterness extracted when hot war is added just by mixing thoroughly with some boiled water that has been cooled to Luke warm.As I say it was a tip but will try it out on my next stout.

 

[krispn]

That’s what that cold brew coffee is - real coffee granules steeped in cold water so you don’t get the same bitterness. I’ve used this process on a stout but soaked the coffee in a glass of the fermented stout rather than water, filtered out the coffee and put back into the batch. Worked a treat!