A.C.E. wrote:
spiritualleader wrote:
A.C.E. wrote:
Last weekend I tried the Indra Kunindra. A Curry Stout made for Ballast Point.
With Curry, toasted coconut, chilis, and kaffir lime.
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How was that Curry Stout? Sounds interesting, but could be a fail.
it's....interesting.
Dude working the bar tells customers he has "The Most Interesting Beer in the World."
It actually tastes exactly like it sounds, an average stout with a lot of cayenne pepper and curry, hint of coconut.
I had some and went home and told my wife what I had just had and describing it to her I was realizing that obviously I enjoyed it. Perhaps just for it's novelty?
She was then intrigued. I realized it was hard for me to adequately describe and since BP is only a couple miles away, we jumped back in the car so she could try it.
We bought a couple bottles and are thinking about making an Indian Meal to accompany them.
The dude who brewed it won a contest, and now BP hired him, so it will be interesting to see what he comes up with next.
Not sure about that one. One of the guys on the homebrew forum I hang around did a curry porter called HeatSikher and actually got it on tap at his local brewpub after winning a comp. Not sold on it at all. Mind you, I haven't tasted it. I'm planning a couple of "odd" brews myself later, probably a smoked rosemary porter and a traditional "cock" ale with a boiled chicken carcass in the fermenter. I've had a cock ale before, from a recipe dating back to 1670. Doesn't taste like chicken at all! Kind of freaks people out when you tell them the recipe though.
Tasted the IPA tonight. Still a nice red colour, though very dark for an IPA. Totally not hoppy and not really an IPA (or not really an American IPA, which is the style I was shooting for) but has plenty of bitter hops. The first thing that hits your nose is the malt. I'll double up the 5 min addition hops and add at flame out and probably double the dry hopped Riwaka at risk of intorducing grassy/vegetal flavours (Riwaka is D Saaz, so not very high alpha)
I guess calling it an Imperial Red Ale is pretty much spot on!
Pretty impressed for my first all grain brew though. Calculates from the refractometer and hydrometer readings to be 6.8% ABV.
Pretty clear, hey? Thought this would be way cloudier given that I made my hop blocker way too fine and it blocked up completely and had to double glove my hand and rip it off to get a flow through the chiller!