Wednesday, February 29, 2012

ChIPA v2

Our first batch of limited run ChIPA (we split a batch of dark IPA and did about 15 bottles of this as a test run) was a big success so we decided to have another go at it.  This time as a full batch and with an all grain Cascadian dark IPA brew.

After fermentation, just prior to bottling, we did a masala chai steep as follows:


Approx 5 cups of boiling water
3 sticks of cinammon
tsp ground cinammon
24 cardamon pods (crushed with a chef knife)
24 cloves (soft heads crushed with your finger nail)
1 1/2 tsp ground ginger

We let that steep for about 30 minutes, stirring periodically, and then added this (alongside the priming sugar) before bottling.

Time will tell how successful we were...........

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