Perking up a pumpkin brew

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@morticaixavier

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I have been thinking that my next brew session would be an oatmeal stout with (decaf) coffee and vanilla. Or maybe cacao nibs and vanilla.

Don’t use decaf! decaf is almost always made from inferior beans so the price can be inline with the full caf and it still has caffeine, just less, about half as much. Unless you can find a decaf that is significantly more expensive than the regular from the same roaster it’s just not worth it. go ahead and use regular if your going after the pure flavor.

I was planning to use Peet’s: http://www.peets.com/shop/coffee_decaf.asp

Their decaf coffees are quite tasty. Due to what my doctor calls the “a-word” (aging) I cannot have more than one cup of the real thing, and Peet’s decaf actually makes me think I’m drinking real coffee.

[morticaixavier]

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@morticaixavier

@kgs

I have been thinking that my next brew session would be an oatmeal stout with (decaf) coffee and vanilla. Or maybe cacao nibs and vanilla.

Don’t use decaf! decaf is almost always made from inferior beans so the price can be inline with the full caf and it still has caffeine, just less, about half as much. Unless you can find a decaf that is significantly more expensive than the regular from the same roaster it’s just not worth it. go ahead and use regular if your going after the pure flavor.

I was planning to use Peet’s: http://www.peets.com/shop/coffee_decaf.asp

Their decaf coffees are quite tasty. Due to what my doctor calls the “a-word” (aging) I cannot have more than one cup of the real thing, and Peet’s decaf actually makes me think I’m drinking real coffee.

Sorry, didn’t mean to sound like a coffee nazi. I love coffee and don’t mind decaf at least if it’s a dark roast but I prefer lighter roasts and I find that decaf in those tastes flat and cardboardy. Haven’t had the peets though so perhaps. just remember if you can’t have more than one cup of regular you shouldn’t have more than 2 cups of decaf.

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Actually, I almost never drink decaf anyway – not that I don’t like it, it’s just that after I have my cup of regular Peet’s at home, I then have herbal tea at work, out of habit. But you got me thinking, because the purpose of using decaf in this batch is to make it possible to enjoy coffee + beer, which I would only be able to do if I make beer my breakfast beverage (which is kinda hard-core). No doctor has put me on a caffeine-limited diet, but I have found that the second cup of coffee (or its equivalent in sodas, etc.) is what keeps me up at night.

According to Wikipedia, decaf has a lot less caffeine – it’s not caffeine-free, but in most cases it’s much less than half  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decaffeination#Caffeine_content_of_decaffeinated_coffee That’s what I’m going for: not completely caffeine-free, but not a jolt, either.