Friday 15 February 2013

Smoke Alarm! - Chipotle tinted dark ale

Smoke Alarm


This was fun - pimping a cask beer into a smoky bottled beer - sweet!

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smoke-alarm-bottle-3smoke-alarm-bottle-2 Dark, treacly, rather recklessly strong hoppy ale, warmed with smoky pepper and chilli extracted with 18-year old Glenfiddich single malt whisky.

Concocted as a send-off tipple.

The source ale had previously been mad from a beer kit fortified with Muscavado sugar, black malt and Fuggles hops, added prior to fermentation. Later, this had then been dry-hopped -hooped with Fuggles hops and lagered for six weeks in the cold shed. This was re-invented with a smoky chilli vibe...










Beermaking for leaving pressie Beermaking for leaving pressie Fresh chilli and smoked paripka are standing in for chipotle here, so a bit of a cheat.




















Beermaking for leaving pressie Beermaking for leaving pressie Once chopped, some rather extravagent 18 year old Glenfiddich single malt was added to extract the essential flavours...








Beermaking for leaving pressie Beermaking for leaving pressie A day later this was put through standard coffee filter paper to get rid of the bits and speckles...











Beermaking for leaving pressie Beermaking for leaving pressie It dripped out over an hour or so, then a drinking straw was used as a pipette to measure the same quantity of smoky chilli flavouring per bottle (there was a previous testing phase with glasses of beer at different ratios - dangerous!)







Eventually the bottles were topped up with the original ale and capped.







Beermaking for leaving pressie Dark winter ale What it looks like. This is actually the ale prior to this process. Re-bottling a cask ale will reduce the head when poured out of the final bottle.

Twitr_janus is finally written up as an instructable

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-remote-control-sentient-web-puppet-b/

Twitr_janus - several months of plotting through code and physical creation finally got written up on Instructables :)

Some condensing of the basic elements needed to make it plus inevitable cross-refencing back here...