Chocolatier Cathy

The other week Cathy made some chocolates by hand.  I think they came out great:

They were filled with various ganaches: dark chocolate chili pepper, white chocolate Macadamia nut, milk chocolate pomegranate, chocolate caramel, and straight dark chocolate.  I'm not a chocolate person, but the chili pepper one was really tasty.  Color me impressed.

Coffee Stout, Hoppy Brown

Despite being pretty busy these days, I've been able to get some brewing in:

First, I brewed a somewhat hoppy American brown ale.  It was originally planned as a very light brown ale, but while at the store I ended up getting double the hops (whole leaf Amarillo) and "roastier" malts than planned.  Not too sure what's going to happen there.

Second, I just bottled a coffee stout. As an experiment, I made 1/4 of the batch with about twice the amount of coffee I thought would be appropriate. I did a taste test at bottling and, yeah, it tasted inappropriate. But I think the coffee might mellow out a bit after some conditioning and refrigeration.

So two more fun brews in the pipeline. Looking forward to them.

Coffee

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2007.09.05.  Cathy, Maui.