Really pissed off and kinda drunk... - (chili contest)

[Lunchtime]

Ok..so...There was a chili contest tonight. 8 chili's and I didn't even place in the top half...I'm pissed. These people had ground beef chili...I used pork shoulder and brisket. I used PBR in my chili because I figured Hipsters would like that...

Needless to say, I'm upset...I plan on brewing a beer exclusively to use in next years chili....What I'm looking for is a beer to use.

Any ideas are helpful...I will be spending this entire year planning out this chili...I will destroy them...It must happen.

I hope to get some help from your nice folks in ending their rein of vegetarian chili terror!

 

[JasonToews]

what about using some hot peppers??? Maybe Ghost pepper ale!

 

[Lunchtime]

I already talked about using ghost chili's just to teach them a lesson...How do they taste in beer? Is it drinkable?

 

[Revvy]

My chocolate mole porter is an integral ingredient (amongst 30 other ingredients) in my firebrick chilli. It's a porter with a combination of my own chile powder (ancho, pasillo, dry chipotles, cayenne, mexican chocolate, cumin and cinnamon.) Finished with cayenne in the last 5 minutes of the boil...

It needed a lot of time to mellow the flavors, and to bring the heat down to a drinkable level (but as I have posted in the tap room, very recently...too many of them and it burns both coming in and going out...)
This is one of the versions, it's constantly evolving. I've mashed with the hot chocolate as mash water, and I've tossed whole dried chillis in the boil kettle as well as below.

Type: All Grain
Date: 1/31/2009
Batch Size: 2.50 gal

Boil Size: 2.93 gal
Boil Time: 75 min

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
4 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 60.33 %
1 lbs Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 15.08 %
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 7.54 %
8.0 oz Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 7.54 %
8.0 oz Oats, Flaked (1.0 SRM) Grain 7.54 %
0.50 oz Williamette [4.60 %] (60 min) Hops 14.4 IBU
0.25 oz Williamette [4.60 %] (30 min) Hops 5.5 IBU
0.50 oz Williamette [4.60 %] (2 min) Hops 1.2 IBU
0.50 cup Malto-Dextrine (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
2.1 oz Milk Sugar (Lactose) (0.0 SRM) Sugar 1.96 %
2.5 disks Abualita Mexican Hot cocco + 1 tsp my chili powder in Mash tun. 1/4 disk @ 40 and 1/4 disk + 1 tsp Cayene pepper @ 2 minutes.

And my chili recipe can be found here.

Sorry, but your chilli will never live up to the grandness that is mine.

 

[Lunchtime]

My chili is amazing! lol

I will probably message you in about 11 months though...I 'm not afraid to admit that I am a very sore loser....I hate losing more than anybody can enjoy winning.

I think making a mole might be the way to go...I'm so flabbergasted at losing to a vegetarian chili, that I can barely think straight. lol

 

[roylee]

"Losing to a vegetarian chili" ???? There is no such thing. Calling an all-veggie dish 'chili' is like entering a camel in a horse race. Without doubt, any judge recognizing that stuff as chili should be disbarred. (I'm a winter Texas who spent two hours yesterday evening arguing homebrew and chili with a couple of natives. They'd find a rope and tall tree for anyone who dared call a meatless dish "chili." I've no idea what they'd do to judge who gave it a ribbon.)

 

[Lunchtime]

"Losing to a vegetarian chili" ???? There is no such thing. Calling an all-veggie dish 'chili' is like entering a camel in a horse race. Without doubt, any judge recognizing that stuff as chili should be disbarred. (I'm a winter Texas who spent two hours yesterday evening arguing homebrew and chili with a couple of natives. They'd find a rope and tall tree for anyone who dared call a meatless dish "chili." I've no idea what they'd do to judge who gave it a ribbon.)

This! Exactly this!

 

[Revvy]

I think if he lost to "vag" chili he should have his man card revoked.....

 

[Lunchtime]

It wasn't me dammit. The top chili's were a veg chili and a soupy chili...My chili is man chili..Hipsters just don't get it. They prefer "soy"rizo instead of actual meat I guess.

 

[pnj]

boo hoo. someone didn't like your food.

chili gets boring with the same ingredients. Sounds like people are starting to make some changes to their chili and others (the judges), like it....

It was obviously not an official chili contest or they wouldn't have allowed veggie chili to compete with real chili. You should have know this going into the contest and not entered.

your loss is bigger than you will ever know....

 

[Lunchtime]

******.

 

[two_hearted]

In my experience chili competitions at work are full of people that don't like chili. I make an awesome chili that has one a couple other competitions, but at work people always go with the one that tastes sweet (?), tastes overwhelmingly like ketchup or has cinnamon in it (Cincinnati chili isn't chili). I start mine a 2am so it can cook all night and morning, mine has chiles in it and therefor is always too spicy for 80% of the people there (even though I tone it down to a barely noticeable heat level).

I've learned to make a small amount for such competitions and save the rest for me at home if I'm one of the few who can appreciate real chili.

 

[MyNameIsPaul]

I have shamelessly stolen Revvys Firebrick recipe as my own for our annual chili cook-off with great success. I don't have his Mole Porter beer for it though (maybe I could get a bomber for next year, eh Revvy?!) I forgot what I used this year, probably just a St.Arnolds Brown Ale. I place with this recipe every year, it's great. I get some really great comments about the meatiness and the spices. It's super easy to make, just make sure you have a Mexican grocery store available to you, some spices are hard to get at your local Piggly Wiggly.

 

[pnj]

In my experience chili competitions at work are full of people that don't like chili.

Knowing your audience is key....