Attune your palates to Warp Factor Damn Delicious and ride it into subspace. This coffee-laden oatmeal stout will have you buzzy both ways… focused and relaxed in kind! Named for an integral part of any warp core on a Federation Starship in Star Trek and its myriad of spin offs. (More nerd stuff? Always!) This will also be the first in a series of exploring the “intermix” of coffee and beer with our pal C.J. Porter Born, Owner/Founder/Roaster of Origin Coffee Co. in St. Paul, MN.
Built of a base of Maris Otter, with a supporting cast consisting of choice crystal and roasted malts… and of course, a host of different kinds of oats. A sprinkle of Helios hops keep the malt in check from getting too cloying without contributing any flavor/aroma of its own. Our favored house ale yeast strain rounds everything out superbly. Last, and certainly not least, the star of the show in this dark liquid amalgam is the custom-roasted coffee made just for this beer. And here I’ll hand off the baton to let C.J. speak about the wonderful beans we incorporated into this tasty bevvy…
“The coffee I selected for this particular beer was a 50/50 blend of a natural process Brazil and a washed Mexico.
The Brazil comes from the state of Minas Gerais and has a great citrus backbone to it’s flavor profile. Blood orange, hazelnut and cocoa are among the most pronounced tasting notes in this cup.
The Mexico comes from San Mateo Yoloxochitlan, an area in Oaxaca that I was fortunate enough to visit in 2019. This coffee, and all coffees from this region, will always have a special place in my heart. This coffee has notes of cocoa, caramel, citrus and toffee.
I roasted these two coffees separately to dial in the roasts according to the desired flavor profiles, and then blended them together post roast. What we get from the two coffees together is a delicious flavor combination of chocolate, roasted nuts, orange and caramel. A perfect addition to this wonderful beer!
If y’all’ve read this far, high fives! Getcha selves on down here and snag some of this gem!
