Doritos Flavored Beer

[Proboscidea]

Cool Ranch Doritos are basically corn chips with ranch dressing flavor sprayed on them, right? Why not throw a packet of Hidden Valley Ranch dressing powder into the secondary? Maybe with some dehydrated polenta or corn grits to impart a corn flavor without all the oils and stuff in tortilla chips.

If that works (and I'm not saying it will, but ...) perhaps a Nacho Cheese Doritos effect could be achieved with Kernel Season's Nacho Cheddar popcorn seasoning? They sell this stuff at Target, hereabouts. There are other brands of nacho cheese popcorn flavoring.

I'm curious if this would turn out. The drawback might be that the stuff tastes fake or weird in beer, since you're basically throwing in little packets of artificial flavor and additives. Just like the powder on real Doritos.

 

[Kaiborg12]

this whole topic is nasty. Dorito beer ug! i think i just vomited in my mouth

 

[TheEndlessObsession]

This reminds me of the guy who talked about adding Slim Jims to his beer. I'm don't know if he ever tasted it, but I can't imagine it being very good. But hey, if you want to put chips in your beer, go for it. Not my cup of tea, but as long as YOU enjoy it...

 

[dnichols]

You must be really bored. Doritos?? This is a great joke thread...

 

[mannye]

HAHAHAHA RANCH DRESSING MIX! April Fools indeed! Nice.

 

[cincydave]

Don't know why I happened to remember this thread, but wondering if OP ever tried this. Bikingman82, you still out there?

 

[Fennis]

Cool Ranch Doritos are basically corn chips with ranch dressing flavor sprayed on them, right? Why not throw a packet of Hidden Valley Ranch dressing powder into the secondary? Maybe with some dehydrated polenta or corn grits to impart a corn flavor without all the oils and stuff in tortilla chips.

If that works (and I'm not saying it will, but ...) perhaps a Nacho Cheese Doritos effect could be achieved with Kernel Season's Nacho Cheddar popcorn seasoning? They sell this stuff at Target, hereabouts. There are other brands of nacho cheese popcorn flavoring.

I'm curious if this would turn out. The drawback might be that the stuff tastes fake or weird in beer, since you're basically throwing in little packets of artificial flavor and additives. Just like the powder on real Doritos.

+1 to this. I would think you would get a better flavor profile from using a packet of powder like this. If you want some of the corn flavor and aroma, then use some flaked corn in the mash. The only reason I would suggest that is because the chips also contain a lot of grease, so you could achieve almost the same flavor without the downside of adding grease to your beer.

 

[mannye]

I got this problem licked boys! Here's the secret to perfect Dorito's flaored beer:

1. Open a beer
2. Open a bag of Doritos
3. Insert a Doritos chip into mouth (yum!)
4. Take a swig of beer, mix with semi-chewed Doritos chip (YUM!)

Doritos Flavored beer.

 

[user 141939]

I am resurrecting this thread because I heard on experimental brewing podcast a guy who had made the cool ranch Doritos beer. Basically did it like a cream ale with 1/3 doritos in the mash and the rest just base malt and using cascade hops.

I'm going to do it. It's gonna happen. Just need to decide what best to use for base malt and what temp to mash at, etc. I will maybe do a half a batch instead of a whole one

As far as the hidden valley ranch thing. No. That would not be the same. Cool Ranch doritos beer and just "ranch" beer are not going to be the same thing.

 

[jbunton]

I'm all for experimentation and trying new things but this sounds wrong and disgusting. Surely there has to be a better idea to experiment with than this

 

[user 141939]

Well. The good news is, you won't have to drink it!

Actually the one concern I have is greasing up all my equipment. Is PBW effective against removing any residual oil I might have in my mash tun/Aluminum Kettle/Fermenters?

I am very careful never to involve soap with anything that touches my beer so the idea of using greasy Doritos is a little worrisome.

If I make a small batch though I can just use a different pot and ferment in a little bucket.

 

[bdawg62]

Brewed this beer this weekend. 2.5 gallon batch with 3# 2 row and 1.5# Crushed Cool ranch Doritos mashed at 148 for 90 minutes. Skimmed all of the grease off of the top of the wort in the kettle prior to boiling. The smell was amazing and as of this morning it was fermenting. PBW and hot water does a great job of cleaning the grease from your equipment, absolutely no residual Dorito smell in my mash tun cooler after cleaning. I will post once bottled and carved if this turns out.

 

[jodell]

I wish beer was still beer...

 

[treacheroustexan]

Hmm.. gross, but following.

 

[8rnw8]

Subscribed out of shear morbid curiosity...

 

[user 141939]

Oh yes. This again. So my recipe was 3# pounds pale malt, 1.25# cool ranch doritos. 2.5 oz acid, 1.8oz carapils. .39 oz liberty FWH.

The batch size was 2.25 gallons. Should have left the acid malt out as my pH was about .2 lower than I was aiming for.

I pitched a whole packet of rehydrated us-05. Thinking all the crap in the doritos might stress the yeast bit.

I left it for 3 weeks before bottling. Looks like I forgot to record fg but I think it was higher than I expected. OG was 1.046, I think fg was 1.015? Will have to check again later.

When I bottled there was thus nasty sludge on top that I had to rack below. Tasted kind of green with not very much doritos flavor coming through. It is carbing now.

 

[user 141939]

Here is a pic of the mash. The house smelled like doritos for a day or two.

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[Fedora]

I see a whole lot of talking about mashing Doritos but no pictures of said mashing...

 

[Fedora]

Dammit, McLaugh!

 

[Fedora]

I gotta say, it's looks and sounds absolutely disgusting. And I like cool ranch Doritos..

 

[JohnSand]

Put it in competition. It's weird enough to win.

 

[pvpeacock]

Remember to dry hop with salsa and bean dip!

 

[VagueSkunk]

To quote Spicoli, "Gnarly"

 

[The_Bishop]

Enough said. *shudder*

 

[bdawg62]

In the home brewing world that I live in " Just because you can" means DO IT.

 

[k1ngl1ves]

I... uh... well, ok. Why not...?

 

[5mooth0perator]

Just use MSG. That's like 90% of the cool ranch flavor in Dorritos anyway.

Makes me wonder though would yeast metabolize the glutamate?

 

[brianmef]

I don't see how that could possibly taste good.

 

[bdawg62]

Bottled today, tasted like a cream ale with an aftertaste of Cool Ranch Doritos. Not overpowering at all, actually rather enjoyable.

 

[rcreamer0713]

Something about this is...cringe worthy. Id love to try a bottle for pure curiousity sake