brewingsam
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picked up a kit that claimed it was the closet i'd get to Guinness, though without the nitrogen to flatten it out i'm really not sure how strong that claim can be, so i decided to go a different rout, and make it a chipotle stout
i heard that if i was going to add the peppers it was best to add them in the secondary
the brew was simple enough, steep what appear to be coffee malt and some kind of lighter malt, came with a tub of extract, we hit the gravity right on the nose, used the boiling and flavor hops at the right times, and she's bubbling away in the brew bucket just like she should be
the real question is, how much chipotle to add
i read one place i should break it into 3 smaller batches and do a single pepper in the first, 2 peppers in the 2nd, and 3 in the 3rd, makes sense, but it really isn't my style to break down my batches like that
my buddy read somewhere that i should only add a few tea spoons of chipotle powder, which after what i just wrote seems like underkill
i figured doing 1 pepper per gallon was a good start, it it was too little my next batch would go 2 peppers per gallon and keep moving on in that sort of progression.
anyone brewed this kind of beer before? tips, suggestions?
i heard that if i was going to add the peppers it was best to add them in the secondary
the brew was simple enough, steep what appear to be coffee malt and some kind of lighter malt, came with a tub of extract, we hit the gravity right on the nose, used the boiling and flavor hops at the right times, and she's bubbling away in the brew bucket just like she should be
the real question is, how much chipotle to add
i read one place i should break it into 3 smaller batches and do a single pepper in the first, 2 peppers in the 2nd, and 3 in the 3rd, makes sense, but it really isn't my style to break down my batches like that
my buddy read somewhere that i should only add a few tea spoons of chipotle powder, which after what i just wrote seems like underkill
i figured doing 1 pepper per gallon was a good start, it it was too little my next batch would go 2 peppers per gallon and keep moving on in that sort of progression.
anyone brewed this kind of beer before? tips, suggestions?