I know its in the Brewcon Booklet but I'll post it here too.
I've done this recipe twice, first time round it scored 42/50 in the 2016 Nationals. Second time round is what was tasted yesterday. I wouldnt change anything about the recipe but there is 2 things worth pointing out.
1- Make sure your smoked malt is fresh. Open the pack and have a smell, if theres no strong smokey aroma then the grain isnt fresh. You need to get that smoky element into your beer from fresh smoked malt.
2- Chipotles can really vary in heat. I wouldnt leave the chipotles in contact with the beer for any longer than 2 days.
Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
32.80 l Porter Brew N Water Water 1 -
4.21 g Chalk (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 2 -
2.73 g Epsom Salt (MgSO4) (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 3 -
2.06 g Baking Soda (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 4 -
1.53 g Calcium Chloride (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 5 -
3.17 kg Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC) Grain 6 52.6 %
1.00 kg Munich Malt (17.7 EBC) Grain 7 16.6 %
0.68 kg Smoked Malt (17.7 EBC) Grain 8 11.3 %
0.45 kg Dark Crystal (200.0 EBC) Grain 9 7.5 %
0.34 kg Chocolate Malt (886.5 EBC) Grain 10 5.7 %
0.15 kg Barley, Flaked (3.3 EBC) Grain 11 2.5 %
0.11 kg Black (Patent) Malt (985.0 EBC) Grain 12 1.9 %
0.11 kg Carafa Special III (Weyermann) (925.9 EB Grain 13 1.9 %
30.00 g Columbus (Tomahawk) [15.40 %] - Boil 60. Hop 14 44.4 IBUs
0.50 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) Fining 15 -
45.00 g Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] - Boil 15.0 Hop 16 10.7 IBUs
15.00 g Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] - Boil 0.0 Hop 17 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg Nottingham Yeast (Lallemand #-) [23.66 m Yeast 18 -
2.00 Items Chipotle Chilli (Secondary 2.0 days) Spice 19 -
This was the ONLY chilli-based beer I've had that I thought was truly wonderful. You are a genius.
What is 'Porter Brew N Water' ? RO water ? I ... would have assumed, that with all of the other flavours in this, that chlorine-clean, normal hard water, would be perfect for it.
Why Dark Crystal ? What does that lend to the recipe ?
Kinda blown away that you only had two chilies for 2 days. It tasted like a lot more than that!
Thanks bigvalen.
I attached a profile of the porter brew n water for you. I use it for most dark beers really.
Dary Crystal? Well its a dark beer so I thought Dark Crystal to give the EBC a boost.
Yeah as I said, be careful with the chipotles, no longer than 2 days in contact with the beer or else it would become undrinkable. Batch 1 was not so hot but had more smoke, Batch 2 (what you tasted) had more heat and less smoke. I prefered batch 1.
Where did you get the chips and how did you make the dip? :D
The chips are just storebought but you can make your own at home by cutting up a flour tortilla and frying it.
See http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/the-food-board/chipotle-mayo/ (http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/the-food-board/chipotle-mayo/) for the mayo.
Cheers. Think I'm going to have to recreate for the next bbq this summer :)
Really enjoyed this on Saturday, especially with the chips and dip. Where do you source your chipotle peppers from?
I usually buy them online, amazon normally.
If you are lucky enough to know anybody travelling up north, as I was this time, Sainsbury's carry chipotle flakes. John O Connell kindly sponsored the ingredients for the mayonnaise and nachos this time, much appreciated again John. Not a very expensive dip to make either.
I have only used flakes in the mayo never in the beer. Best to use the whole chipotles in the beer.
Good stuff, cheers. A few non craft drinkers in my family happened to come across Metalman's smoked chilli porter in a Waterford restaurant and loved it. Yours was better than that again, so going to brew it up for the next family event.
I don't know what chilli they used but I really think the use of the chipotle chilli gives this beer that something extra over a standard chilli.
Just bought 1KG Chipotle peppers and an Aloe Vera plant.
Is the Aloe Vera for your ar*ehole for the day after? 😂 🇯🇵
A whole kilo? Really?
Yes, yes and yes ;D
(Not buying the Aloe Vera)
I plan to split up the Chilis.
Tapped this last night - Really good.
I need to pull out the chilis - drop them into a Con Carne :)
Waste not want not ...
A couple of squares of dark chocolate melted into your chilli con carne before serving will give it a nice lift too
John's was fairly tasty at the festival, one of the ones that really stuck out! Nicely done :)
Thanks Daithi, the one in Killarney was HBC Stout mash kit with Colin's trick applied with 2 x jalapenos.
I brewed Colin's porter kegged and spiced it during the week.
It proved a hit at SausageFest in Midleton on Saturday.
Sausagefest??? How did I miss out on that? ;)
A whirlwind East Cork Rebels affair. There was beer. There was sausage.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170605/8399d666a8af498f9a432a79b10a8639.jpg)
Dang, looks like a good time!!! Have a Barleywine, IPA and Hefeweizen on the go right now... hopefully have something for the next hookup! :)
Looks nice :)