Arabic Coffee Porter

I'm planning this one for an upcoming brew session (hopefully tomorrow).

For those of you who don't know, arabic coffee on the arabian gulf is very different from how many perceive it. I tend to think of the divide as arabic coffee and turkish coffee, and while I love both, this beer is aimed at the former. Gulf arabic coffee is somewhat tea-like, lighter and gentler, and spiced with cardamom.

That's pretty much where I'm thinking to take this beer - a pretty straightforward porter (for the first iteration, I'm going to be using Jamil Zainasheff's as a base, with no alterations except for system and scaling), and adding an undecided amount of coffee and cardamom to the beer.

I'm likely going to add both the coffee and the cardamom in several different ways, as I've found in the past multiple methods of addition tend to give a more balanced flavor presentation. If I brew tomorrow, I'll update with the actual recipe and amounts used, although some, if not all, of the coffee and cardamom adding will happen post-fermentation.