Iron Spike Chili - version 1.01

Posted by Big Dog at 6/20/2009 7:26 AM
Categories: Beer, Recipes

IRONSPIKE CHILI



When we had our last team meeting to discuss dates, projects and recipe development, we had to take a look at what we were going to do with the IronSpike beer line. We wanted 10 recipes this month, as competition time was coming up soon. One obvious choice was chili, and because I had that big Canadian National win, this was my task. Now the pressure was on to come up with a new recipe different from last year's, but make it better, Ugh. The consolation was that, I got to drink the surplus beer from the 1.8 ltr growler.

OK I have to digress a little here; I remember the thrill of buying quart bottles of beer, there was only one beer store 30 miles away that sold them in Molson Export. When I went to Montreal to Concordia University, I was in heaven "quarts" every where. That is, when we were not spending every spare minute in the Peel Pub. There’s a few stories I care not to blog about. So these growlers are 1.8 liters, that’s just shy of a 6 pack, for $8.00. Way too cool to pull a few of these bad boys out of the fridge when the guys come over. This is why they call me the Big Dog, GO BIG OR GO HOME.



You can't get these at the beer store, you got to make a beer run direct to the brewery.

 

Enough digressing, so I have a few ideas where I want to go and the Iron Spike Amber is just right for what I have in mind, along with some more exotic additions. Here is my ingredient list;

Ironspike Chili Recipe

2 lb pork
2 lb beef
1 quart beef stock
2 cups Amber Ironspike
2 cups diced green pepper
2 cups diced onion
2 cups red kidney beans (canned)
4 oz dark chocolate
1/4 cup corn meal
2 tbsp ancho chili powder
2 tbsp granulated garlic
2 tbsp toasted cumin (ground)
2 tbsp kosher salt
1 tsp ground pepper

I had a little extra meat so I decided to blend them all together and take out the required four pounds and make meatballs of the balance, bad idea. The meat lost it’s distinctive flavour. Speaking of flavour, this chili has an overpowering taste when you first mix it together,I can not stress that it needs time for the spices to do their magic. It’s tough trying to adjust ingredients, you just have to wait till it’s had a few hours to cook.

 

Well here is the first version; I’ll call it a very mild heat with 6 out of 10 for overall flavour. Don’t get me wrong it’s good, just not King of the Chili good. Hence I have given this a version 1.01 it’s a first draft. I have a few more ideas on this but I not going to kill myself like I did three times a week developing that ring of fire for the last one, my butt hole has just finally healed up. I'll fire this out to the tasters and see what they say, I do not expect much, as our people have become very picky about our quality of food. I just hope I don't get that last comment, "that sucked shit" from one of the team other adventures. When you go down many roads, sometimes you hit a dead end. Some things sound like good ideas, until you put theory in practice. 

 

 

 

Until our next version.... What's that Barb.... no no it's all research and development,


Cheers from the Big Dog (this is tough work some days)

 
 

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