chemnitz
Well-Known Member
Okay, so this may be the crazy mutterings of a newbie with more imagination than sense. How about a beer with the flavor of an Irish Car Bomb Cocktail. For those who are not familiar with this drink, it involves a shot of Bailey's Irish Cream and Jameson's Irish Whiskey that is dropped into a pint of Guinness and then chugged. It must be drunk quickly, lest the cream curdle. But what if you could have this drink without having to down it so fast?
So there are three tastes that need to be present:
1) Guinness - This should be easy enough: use a stout as the base for the recipe.
2) Bailey's - Lactose should give the beer the necessary sweetness and milkiness. Cocoa powder (and/or chocolate malt), vanilla extract (or beans), and caramel malts should cover the chocolate, vanilla, and caramel flavors in the liqueur.
3) Jameson's - Can you just add some whiskey into the recipe? In the secondary? At bottling time? How much?
So, that's the basic idea. Does anyone think that this might actually work? Would it taste good? More importantly--does any intrepid soul want to take a moment to hash out a hypothetical recipe for such a thing? I'm an extract + specialty grains brewer at this point, so something along those lines would be wonderful.
Thanks!
So there are three tastes that need to be present:
1) Guinness - This should be easy enough: use a stout as the base for the recipe.
2) Bailey's - Lactose should give the beer the necessary sweetness and milkiness. Cocoa powder (and/or chocolate malt), vanilla extract (or beans), and caramel malts should cover the chocolate, vanilla, and caramel flavors in the liqueur.
3) Jameson's - Can you just add some whiskey into the recipe? In the secondary? At bottling time? How much?
So, that's the basic idea. Does anyone think that this might actually work? Would it taste good? More importantly--does any intrepid soul want to take a moment to hash out a hypothetical recipe for such a thing? I'm an extract + specialty grains brewer at this point, so something along those lines would be wonderful.
Thanks!