SupervisingChildren
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Cleaned some kegs, filled a keg with an ipa, and dry hopped my white ipa with some help from my 5 yr old daughter.
It no kidding tastes like bacon with a less pronounced maple flavor. Its gonna be a good beer I'm fairly certain but definitely unconventional. Its the most unique beer I've ever had. She's in a keg now and chilling. Couple more hours before go time. What's up with the chocolate peanut butter? How is it? How'd you do it?
Helped a friend brew his 2nd batch of beer and he already ordered 3 more kits!
The Chocolate Peanut Butter came out great. I did do it two different ways: the first was with PB2 deoiled peanut butter powder (2lbs) in secondary and cacao beans, slightly crushed for 4 weeks. This gave a fairly mild peanut butter flavor and reasonable chocolate flavor, a little over what you would get for a normal chocolate stout. The second method was the addition of extract to half of the existing batch. I used 2 oz of each peanut butter flavor and chocolate flavor extract at bottling. Few people like both versions, most chose one. The experienced beer drinkers preferred the non extract versions.
If I did it again, I would use less extract, probably half.
That Bacon Maple sounds like breakfast beer!
Shopping for LME kit number 4. I'd like to add a chipoltle pepper syrup. What is a good vehicle for that? I'd do a stout but I'm moving in a few months so it wouldn't have time to age. Brown ale? Pale Ale? American Ale? What sayeth you?
5 Rabbit Cerveceria makes a good chili pepper brown ale called 5 Vultures. They use ancho and guajillo I think? They take a light touch with the peppers, which strikes me as the right move for a brown. If you used the same amount in a brown ale as in a chili pepper stout, you'd never taste the beer.
There's is such that you get mild, smoky pepper flavor from the first step, but the heat is slow to build. By the end of the glass, you can feel it lightly warming up your mouth and throat.
That sounds perfect. I'll do this for the next batch after what I just ordered. I got myself a Belgian Triple kit with some ginger syrup. I'm gonna add lime zest in vodka. I ordered the kit, syrup, a new auto siphon since I broke that little plastic plug out of the last one because of blackberries plugged it up. We're gonna call it "Phantom Ginger Lime Tripel"
I kegged and force carbed a peat smoked scottish ale and an English strong ale.
Then, 12 hours later I drank waaaay too much.
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