Before I step up to All Grain, I want to brew one more extract recipe. I have a Northern Brewer Cream Ale extract kit. I want more body in the beer, so I have a pound of flaked oats on hand and I have some locally roasted Celebes Kalossi beans, and I'll be using a yeast starter with Wyeast 1056 American Ale.
My inspiration is a Coffee Cream Ale from Rocket Republic Brewing in Madison, Alabama. Their Vapor Trail Cream Ale is one of my favorite beers, and the addition of coffee flavor levels it up to brilliant status.
I have been picking the brains of my brewer friends at Rocket Republic, Yellowhammer and Straight to Ale, and I've settled on beans in secondary prior to bottling. This week is a good week to brew, so any and all advice is very much appreciated.