Comments on: September Brew Day – Recipes Needed

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:02:12 +0000

Salted Caramel = Gose with lots of crystal. Could make it a Chocolate Salted Caramel to stick with the chocolate theme but I’m worried it might be overkill. Will sour this like I do a Berliner Weisse with a lacto starter prior to pitching the yeast. Flavor profile: caramel sweet, sour, salty.

Prepared to brew 5 gallons of this on Saturday. Anybody interested?

By: mike pietro

mike pietro — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:28:39 +0000

Did a bit of research. I think a cranberry saison, carbed to 2.5-3 vols CO2 would be awesome. We could even get cheap plastic champagne flutes to serve it ($0.50 each)

http://www.partycity.com/product/clear+plastic+champagne+flutes+5+1-2oz+20ct.do

Will try to find some recipes.

By: Mike Pietro

Mike Pietro — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:53:18 +0000

love the fizzy lifting drink idea. Maybe a saison style would work better since we could carbonate it to 3ish volumes? lemongrass and ginseng, orange/lemon peel, 50% 2-row, 30% wheat, 20% crystal 20 (if any)

would cranberry work in a saison? That might be melding the themes of wonka and xmas tho.

By: Patrick B.

Patrick B. — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:25:05 +0000

I second the Chokolat clone. I thoroughly enjoyed getting a buzz of something that tasted like a chocloate malt.

RE: the original movie

How about a fizzy lifting drink, or a highly carbonated pale ale w/ ginseng or some herbal energy type ingredient.

Maybe a 3-course meal gum/ beer? Course one – oysters, course two bacon (does meat flavor ever work in beer?), course three chocolate. (I don’t think the original tomato soup, roast beef and blueberry would taste very good.)

By: Mike Pietro

Mike Pietro — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:10:40 +0000

In reply to Mike Pietro. also, probably some vanilla bean in the secondary, though I don't think ST uses them.

By: Mike Pietro

Mike Pietro — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:08:40 +0000

Here is a clone of Southern Tier’s Chokolat that I’ve been wanting to brew. If we used some meadowfoam honey (tastes like caramel/vanilla covered roasted marshmallows), we could call it the Whipple Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight (though a reference to the later movie…you know, the GOOD one?)

Anyway, I don’t know if anyone’s had Chokolat, but its awesome. Hopefully an RIS would be able to age enough between Sept and Dec.

Size: 5.42 gal
Efficiency: 75.0%
Attenuation: 75.0%
Calories: 372.67 kcal per 12.0 fl oz

Original Gravity: 1.110 (1.075 – 1.115)

Terminal Gravity: 1.028 (1.018 – 1.030)

Color: 39.19 (30.0 – 40.0)

Alcohol: 11.05% (8.0% – 12.0%)

Bitterness: 71.7 (50.0 – 90.0)

Ingredients:
18.25 lb 2-Row Brewers Malt – 79.3%
1.75 lb Caramel Malt 60L – 7.6%
1.25 lb Barley Flaked – 5.4%
1.75 lb Chocolate Malt – 7.5%
1 lb Chocolate (dark) – steeped after boil
1.5 oz Chinook (13.0%) – added during boil, boiled 60 min
.5 oz Willamette (5.6%) – added during boil, boiled 30 min
2 lb meadowfoam honey
.50 ea Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) – added during boil, boiled 15 min
2 ea Fermentis US-05 Safale US-05

Maybe some cocoa nibs post-fermentation to taste?

By: Ryan D.

Ryan D. — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:12:33 +0000

chocolate and chili peppers has always been a good combo in candy bars. kind of like a mole beer. the base recipe maybe being a brown ale?

i will be in ohio for a wedding that weekend, so i won’t be able to make it. damn.