Black As Your Heart / Black Heat

I know the sugar isnt typical of the style, but I wanted a nice light body. In 6 of the bottles I popped in half green/red chillis.

Brewer:	Alex van den Broek		Email:	-
URL:	http://www.geocities.com/nzhomebrew
Beer:	Black As Your Heart / Black Heat		Style:	Schwarzbier
Type:	Extract w/grain		Size:	12 liters
Color:	105 HCU (~36 SRM)		Bitterness:	34 IBU
OG:	1.049		FG:	1.014
Alcohol:	4.6% v/v (3.6% w/w)
Water:	Soft water used for this one.
Grain:	300g British chocolate
Steep:	steep chocolate malt for 30mins at 65°
Boil:	60 minutes	SG 1.049	12 liters
	1.5kg Light malt extract 200g Cane sugar
Hops:	10g NZ Green Bullet (12% AA, 60 min.) 10g NZ Green Bullet (12% AA, 15 min.)
Yeast:	Saflager Dried Yeast
Log:	8 days in primary.
Carbonation:	1tbsn of cane sugar in each 750ml bottle.
Tasting:	A beautiful chocolately beer. no caramel taste which is what I wanted. the balance between the hops and malt was good too. Next time I would use a secondary though, as it could of fermented out some more. Black Heat - great combo of herbal chilli flavour and heat with dark malts. But after about 3 weeks the ones with the green chillis became too hot!

Recipe posted 07/22/04.