It’s been a long journey, but my ultimate nerd’s breakfast beer is finally complete—Oatmeal, Coffee, Chocolate, Bacon Stout. So how does it taste? Would it go well with some pancakes, eggs and bacon in the morning?
The answer to these questions, along with the basic recipe for the beer, is available on our new nerdy food site That’s Nerdalicious…
So, the ultimate nerd’s beer has been brewed, baconed and bottled. Now we wait.
However, I do have some details on the taste of the unconditioned beer. Before bottling and just prior to the coffee addition, I gave the beer a taste test to determine how well the bacon flavor came along after the “hopping” period.
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Indeed—Nerd Approved’s oatmeal, coffee, stout has just received its bacon addition. Now comes the daily taste-testing to determine the appropriate amount of bacony beer flavor.
Of course, I will probably need quite a bit more bacon than I put in the hop bag to get the flavor that I want. Though I cooked the bacon down as much as possible without burning, I’m still a bit paranoid about fat leeching into the beer. So I’m starting with a relatively small amount of bacon just to get a baseline, then I’ll likely ramp it up over the next couple of days depending on how it goes.
Just dropping in to let you know where we are with Nerd Approved’s Oatmeal, Coffee, Bacon Stout project. The fermentation process has concluded, the beer tastes great so far, and it is set to move on into the most interesting stage.
So the brewing is complete on Nerd Approved’s breakfast in a bottle brand of oatmeal, coffee, bacon stout. As promised, I took some photos and added a bit of detail so you know where we are and what the next steps are going to be.
Bacon. Coffee. Beer. Why not put these wonderful things together?
As an avid homebrewer that likes to tinker with extreme style beers, that’s the question I found myself asking. Make the base beer an oatmeal stout, add some high quality coffee and infuse with bacon—breakfast in a bottle. As I write this I am waiting for the sparge to finish up, so the process of creating the ultimate nerd’s beer is already well underway.
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