#92 - Beer Blog 31 (Hopwerks: Survival Coffee Stout)

[chemicalcraig69]

Last time I had one of these I was up until 3 AM.

Not to be negative, but drinking stumptown in portland is like drinking starbucks in seattle.

I'm brewing an imperial stout soon that I'll be adding cold pressed Zoka coffee to the secondary.

[BeerichiTuba]

@chemicalcraig69 Oh man, for reals. Ya, I wish it wasn't like that so I can sit down and enjoy Speedway Stout.

I'm guessing you mean there's an abundance of Stumptown and not necessarily the quality's like Starbucks, right? I never heard of Zoka coffee, I'll tell my roommate Jon about it.

[chemicalcraig69]

@BeerichiTuba

oh no, i didn't mean to imply stumptown was as awful as starbucks, just that it's everywhere like you said. also i think that in order to expand you have to sacrifice a bit in quality, which stumptown has done recently. On the other hand I'm glad more people are getting better coffee and would take stumptown over 95% of other coffees most of the time.

Zoka does a lot of single origin stuff. I'll send you a bag to enjoy.

[hippykiller1]

This is pretty cool. Nice to see that you had a coffee guy review. Kinda ads to the dynamic factor of your beer blog... Stumptown is nice high quality coffee. I really do miss it. I also miss a wide selection of beer. Japan just isn't the same...

[yuichituba]

@hippykiller1 Oh crap! You're in Japan now!!! I was about to say, can't you get Stump Town from where you are? I just saw your blog, man. So you're in Otawara, huh. I'll read up your stuff to see how things are going. I bet you have a lot of free time, lol. That's what I heard anyways.

[AndreR241]

Ok, it IS broken...

Thanks for the video!

[Chad9976]

gotta love a good coffee beer!

[qchome]

w/o watching the vid again,i think i originally asked if there was a limit to what u can + 2 beer and how much u can + & still call it a beer?

-i've had this debate many x b4,and i take the side of the german purity law;to each his/her own...i guess!

[yuichituba]

@qchome Oh did you? I think I missed it if you did. What's your question? Are you asking how much ABV and additions you make to beer until it's not beer?

[qchome]

@yuichituba i am asking if u + coffee 2 beer/if you + cherries 2 beer/if you + chillies 2 beer(and that is only the c's)is it still beer?

if yes,how much?if a "beer" has 5% coffee in it...is it still a beer;25%,49%,50%,51%?

[yuichituba]

@qchome I don't know. As long as it tastes like beer and it's mostly composed of the beer wert.

[qchome]

@yuichituba dude,there is (obviously)no right or wrong answer...it is just ones opinion.with belgium & germany neighbours...the topic of conversation keeps things interesting!

proost & prost.

[yuichituba]

@qchome I think as long as it uses 100% of its necessary ingredients it's ok what people do.  But if people try so hard to make it taste something other than beer, like milk shake or syrupy soda, then I think it's stupid. If I want to drink milk shake or soda I would go to McDonalds.

[TheMasterOfHoppets]

Didn't you already upload this once? :-P

[yuichituba]

@TheMasterOfHoppets Ya, but YouTube has been really weird and screwy with uploading videos and putting ads. Hopefully I won't have to deal with stuff like this again.

[TheMasterOfHoppets]

@yuichituba Oh ok. Yeah lets. Btw you two should review Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel, brewed with the most excpensive coffee in the world, it is really good!

[haddieman]

Good review. I liked it that you brought your roommate in on this review. It was good to hear a coffee drinker's perspective on the beer.