Chocolate chili porter.

[HH60gunner]

Wife and I just finished brewing up what will be our chocolate chili porter. We're not planning on adding the chilies and the chocolate nibs until we rack it to the secondary. If anyone who's ever done a chocolate chili type beer and has chili amount recommendations I'd appreciate it. Otherwise we're just going to wing it and hope it turns out right. OG was 1.071 with target gravity of 1.016 giving us a nice 7.6 porter. The plan is to put in some chocolate nibs and about 4 ancho, and 2 chipotle peppers (dried) in the secondary.

 

[HH60gunner]

well after doing quite a bit of google I ran into a page where a guy didn't put any chilies in until bottling time, where he then would put a whole (small) jalapeño in each bottle. Which both gave it a good chili flavor and heat as well as for looks (kind of like the worm in the tequila). Has anyone else tried that before? If so how much of a chili flavor did it give off? What about the heat? The goal is to make a chili "beer", with emphasis on the beer. I don't want to make something so hot that no on wants to drink it. Once again any input would be helpful. I figured this way I could leave some chillies out of some of the bottles just so I can also have some normal porter as well.

 

[erkwist]

Subscribe...i did make a porter a couple of years back and added a couple of tbsp. of mole verde and it turned out wonderfull. i put it in in the last 5 min of boil and ended up with a nice spicy finish and aftertaste.

 

[SevenFields]

Cave Creek brewery makes a chili beer that has a whole jalapeno in each bottle and it is way too hot. No beer taste what so ever. I dont recommend going that route.
I have always wanted to make a chocolate chili beer, similar in taste to the Lindt chili chocolate bar. More chocolate with an after taste of a little bit of heat and spice!