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Heatseeker, as it was commercially named, was originally named Heatsikher by me. Dunno why they changed the name. You can find another review here.
The following recipe is for 40l, but I only spiced 20.
Grist:
4.52kg pale 2 row
1.73kg munich
1.73kg caramel 60
173g choc malt
86g brown malt
Mashed @ 68C for 60 min.
Hops:
21g Chinook pellets (11.6%) 90 min [13.5 IBU]
Yeast:
Wyeast 1318 London III, pitched @ 16C.
OG 1.056
FG 1.007
Fermented @ 16-17C for 16 days, then kegged. Heatsikher was created by adding a coconut/curry "broth" to one keg and racking the beer onto it.
Coconut/curry broth:
4 cups (packed) semi-sweet shredded coconut + 4 cups water + 1/2 tsp safeway generic brand medium curry powder stewed for an hour. The mixture was initially brought to a boil, then covered and the heat reduced to low to allow it to gently boil/simmer. After an hour, the mixture was strained to remove the coconut and briefly boiled again to sterilise, and then added to the keg.
Things I'd change next time: just one thing, and that's to use unsweetened coconut. Apparently semi-sweet coconut is about 33% sugar by weight, so I got quite a bit of refermentation. I set aside a few bottles for competition from the keg and they were waaay overcarbed.
I actually didn't really like it, but the owner of the liquor store where I won the right to brew a batch kind of likes weird beers so I thought what the hell. That, and it was the only beer I've ever brewed that people searched for/asked about at our competition. That told me I was onto something. It disappeared really quickly when I brought the keg to our club meetings. :beer:
The following recipe is for 40l, but I only spiced 20.
Grist:
4.52kg pale 2 row
1.73kg munich
1.73kg caramel 60
173g choc malt
86g brown malt
Mashed @ 68C for 60 min.
Hops:
21g Chinook pellets (11.6%) 90 min [13.5 IBU]
Yeast:
Wyeast 1318 London III, pitched @ 16C.
OG 1.056
FG 1.007
Fermented @ 16-17C for 16 days, then kegged. Heatsikher was created by adding a coconut/curry "broth" to one keg and racking the beer onto it.
Coconut/curry broth:
4 cups (packed) semi-sweet shredded coconut + 4 cups water + 1/2 tsp safeway generic brand medium curry powder stewed for an hour. The mixture was initially brought to a boil, then covered and the heat reduced to low to allow it to gently boil/simmer. After an hour, the mixture was strained to remove the coconut and briefly boiled again to sterilise, and then added to the keg.
Things I'd change next time: just one thing, and that's to use unsweetened coconut. Apparently semi-sweet coconut is about 33% sugar by weight, so I got quite a bit of refermentation. I set aside a few bottles for competition from the keg and they were waaay overcarbed.
I actually didn't really like it, but the owner of the liquor store where I won the right to brew a batch kind of likes weird beers so I thought what the hell. That, and it was the only beer I've ever brewed that people searched for/asked about at our competition. That told me I was onto something. It disappeared really quickly when I brought the keg to our club meetings. :beer: