Beer Geek Breakfast Stout Clone?

Mashing
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I found a recipe supposedly for Beer Geek Breakfast Stout by Mikkel Bjergsø & Kristian Keller.

The recipe however does not have any coffee in it as the real BGBS does.

Whaddaya think about the receipe?

www.maltbazaren.dk/images/Beer%20Geek%2 ... 20klon.pdf

The page referencing the recipe states the following:

The kit contains detailed recipe, malt and hops to approx. 25 liter. 25 liters. The recipe requires knowledge of allgrain-brewing. Besides this, use: Whitelabs WLP001 California ale Brewer’s yeast.
NOTE: This malt is NOT rolled

Kit for cloning the ultimate breakfast “Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast” with permission from Mikkeller.

Style: Oatmeal stout
Brewer: Mikkel Bjergsø & Kristian Keller
Volume: 25 liters
OG: 1073
FG: 1016
Alcohol: 7.5 % by vol.
Colour: 123 EBC (Black)
Bitterness: 116 IBU
BU/GU: 1.58

Fermentables
Pilsner Malt 3 EBC 4500 grammes
Flaked Oats 5 EBC 2000 grammes
Cara Munich 90 EBC 500 grammes
Smoked Malt 6 EBC 500 grammes
Chocolate Malt 500 EBC 500 grammes
Chocolate Malt 940 EBC 500 grammes
Roasted Barley 1150 EBC 500 grammes

Mash schedule
67/68 degrees for 75 minutes

Hops
Centennial 10% alpha 50 grammes 60 minutes
Cascade 5.7% alpha 50 grammes 60 minutes
Cascade 5.7% alpha 50 grammes 15 minutes
Centennial 10% alpha 50 grammes 5 minutes

Fermentation
Yeast: 1056 American Ale / WLP001

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It contains all the right ingredients (according to the Mikkeller site) except the coffee. Why not brew it as-is, then make some cold-press coffee and add a little to a tasting glass until you find the right ratio and step it up for the rest of the beer, either in the fermenter a couple days before bottling or directly to the keg?

3

Here’s the BGBS page:

http://www.mikkeller.dk/index.php?id=61 ... =43&land=1

I wonder why the recipe omits the coffee piece? It is the “breakfast” part of the stout, right?

4

Whoever wrote the recipe either missed the coffee when they read the site or didn’t know how to handle coffee in beer - either way it makes it suspect as a clone, but it’s a starting point that you can brew and adjust over a couple iterations.

5

For a 5 gallon batch, how much, and what kind, of coffee do you suggest?

A hardcore expresso or … ?

Have you see a clone of this awesome beer elsewhere?

I emailed the brewery, asking for a homebrew recipe. Fingers crossed!

6

email Mikkel. He’s very generous with his recipes.

7

I have emailed several times - zero response.