Coffee Stouts

You should be fine. This is a topic that has come up in this forum many times over the last year. There is caffeine in the espresso/coffee, however it usually is not enough to affect the body. I have a no caffeine diet and usually if I have some form of caffeine it greatly affects me. And I had a Founders Breakfast Stout and Stone Imperial Stout last night before bed and I slept like a baby.

 

For me, alcohol is a stronger depressant than caffeine is a stimulant.

 

Most likely trace amounts of caffeine brewed with coffee, but nothing too crazy as it's illegal to sell alcohol and caffeine infused beverages (ie. 4loko) and beers like FBS/KBS and BCBCS are still around.

 

Yes, there is a presence of caffeine in coffee stouts. How much? I don't know, but I know legally in the United States there is a limit on the caffeine that can be allowed in alcoholic drinks. Personally I can drink a cup of coffee before bed and sleep fine. I have never noticed the effects of caffeine in any stouts ive drank.

 

The FDA/TTB recent regulations against adding caffeine to alcoholic beverages did not prohibit the use of coffee as a flavoring, as noted by the FDA at the time:

 

Personally, I only day drink coffee stouts for this very reason.

 

One of many threads on the topic: http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/caffeine-amount-in-coffee-beers.67095/

And a quote directly from Founders regarding Breakfast Stout: https://twitter.com/foundersbrewing/status/256734600297054208

 

I had a Terrapin Wake n Bake a few nights ago and couldn't go to sleep...Jittery Joe's must be some high octane stuff because the alcohol did NOT counteract the caffeine.

 

I'm as sensitive to caffeine as anyone, I don't touch the stuff due to an irregular heartbeat. I've never even given it a thought when drinking a Coffee Stout, never has any after effects at all except the alcohol from drinking a BCBCS bomber by myself.

 

Yep, that'll do it.

 

Believe this to be physiologically correct. The depressing aspects of the alcohol outweigh any stimulation due to the caffeine. And it tastes good

 

I've wondered that, too, even though I don't ever recall being "kept up" by a coffee stout or the like.

Although, if you can drink a cup of coffee before bed and go to sleep, you're probably not the best judge of the effects of caffeine in alcohol lol.

Me, on the other hand... Coffee'll definitely help wake me up in the morning, and it also interferes with me falling asleep if I have any too close to bedtime.

 

I have a high caffeine tolerance and never noticed an effect with coffee stouts...until last year. I cracked a Pipeworks Hyper Dog before watching Sportscenter (10pm) one night and found myself still frantically channel surfing at 1:45am.

 

I will second how string wake and bake is. I had a growler of it last year in about an hour and got no buzz but a huge buzz at the same time. It's like espresso in ur beer.

 

So I'm a sucker for stouts and coffee. Which stout has the most pronounced coffee flavor? I mean a stout that if you didn't know better was a cup'o'joe mixed with a stout.

 

bcbcs this year has got a pretty solid coffee flavor.