Comments on: Brewing Beer: Why I Started With Grain http://www.papercut.com/blog/tom/2009/04/07/brewing-beer-why-i-started-with-grain/ Keep an eye on what the PaperCut developers are up to ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:46:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://www.papercut.com/blog/tom/2009/04/07/brewing-beer-why-i-started-with-grain/comment-page-1/#comment-21316 Tom Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:49:24 +0000 http://www.papercut.com/blog/tom/2009/04/07/brewing-beer-why-i-started-with-grain/#comment-21316 Thanks for your comment Rob. I totally agree about the overuse of chilli in lagers. Actually just the other day at a beer night we were being served a chilli beer and a few of us were saying how we've never had a good chilli beer and didn't know why there were so many around, but this beer was a <a href="http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/mikkeller-texas-ranger-barrel-aged/126666/" rel="nofollow">Mikkeller Texas Ranger, barrel aged version</a>, also a chipotle porter, and it was brilliant! Chilli certainly does seem better suited to darker and maltier styles. Coffee sounds like a good fit too! I might have to try your recipe some time, although I'm not sure how common chipotles are here... might have to smoke them myself :) Thanks for your comment Rob. I totally agree about the overuse of chilli in lagers. Actually just the other day at a beer night we were being served a chilli beer and a few of us were saying how we’ve never had a good chilli beer and didn’t know why there were so many around, but this beer was a Mikkeller Texas Ranger, barrel aged version, also a chipotle porter, and it was brilliant!

Chilli certainly does seem better suited to darker and maltier styles. Coffee sounds like a good fit too! I might have to try your recipe some time, although I’m not sure how common chipotles are here… might have to smoke them myself :)

]]> By: Rob Moser http://www.papercut.com/blog/tom/2009/04/07/brewing-beer-why-i-started-with-grain/comment-page-1/#comment-21313 Rob Moser Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:34:56 +0000 http://www.papercut.com/blog/tom/2009/04/07/brewing-beer-why-i-started-with-grain/#comment-21313 Little weird to comment on a two-year-old post, but hey: we just started using PaperCut, and yet as a whole-grain brewer and coffee feind myself, I somehow naturally find myself drawn to the posts about beer and coffee. So sue me. The water here in Flagstaff Arizona is pretty hard, and I like a good porter, so I brew a lot of dark things. I'm not really partial to most novelty flavoured beers, but a lightly smoked porter like <a href="http://robslongbow.blogspot.com/2010/04/smoked-chili-porter.html" rel="nofollow">this one</a> (hopefully thats the lightly smoked one; I'm not very good about remembering to blog tasting notes after the fact...) with about a dozen shots of espresso thrown in at the end adds a nice subtle flavour. Since you folks seem to like both kinds of the nectar of the gods, I figured I'd pass that one along. Enjoy! Little weird to comment on a two-year-old post, but hey: we just started using PaperCut, and yet as a whole-grain brewer and coffee feind myself, I somehow naturally find myself drawn to the posts about beer and coffee. So sue me.

The water here in Flagstaff Arizona is pretty hard, and I like a good porter, so I brew a lot of dark things. I’m not really partial to most novelty flavoured beers, but a lightly smoked porter like this one (hopefully thats the lightly smoked one; I’m not very good about remembering to blog tasting notes after the fact…) with about a dozen shots of espresso thrown in at the end adds a nice subtle flavour. Since you folks seem to like both kinds of the nectar of the gods, I figured I’d pass that one along.

Enjoy!

]]> By: Amy http://www.papercut.com/blog/tom/2009/04/07/brewing-beer-why-i-started-with-grain/comment-page-1/#comment-19778 Amy Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:21:27 +0000 http://www.papercut.com/blog/tom/2009/04/07/brewing-beer-why-i-started-with-grain/#comment-19778 Sounds interesting, I'd like to try your homebrew one day :) Sounds interesting, I’d like to try your homebrew one day :)

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