Jalepenos in beer?

[Grog]

I tried as search, but didn't find what I needed. A friend of mine has asked me to brew a jalepeno beer for his Fourth of July bash. Not my cup of tea, but, hey I love to brew so...I decided the base beer is a APA with an earthy hop (mix of Golding and Willamette), but I have no idea how many peppers to add. Can anyone offer any insight?

Thanks

[kevin]

I remember reading this in BYO, I couldn't stomach pepper beer.
http://www.byo.com/feature/605.html

This should give you some ideas

[zoom6zoom]

The only one I'm familiar with is Cave Creek chili beer, which is utter dreck. I think I'd rather serve peppers on the side!

[chazwicke]

We did a thread on this before. I have had some good chili beers and a couple of bad ones. cave creek was one of the latter. Wynkoop used to make a wonderful chili beer.


http://www.realbeer.com/discussions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2985&highlight=chili%2A

And I recall a longer discussion on this as well. Probably buried in some totally unrelated thread.

Let us know how it works out.

[YamahaXS]

use Habenero's and surprise him!

:D

[HogieWan]

This may be a good one for the cajuns down here

"you like spicy - try this!":)

[Grog]

I definitely want to avoid dreck! I am going to try 10 peppers in the primary and 5 in the secondary. I want a little heat on the lips and that's about it. If it is too wussy for the guy, I will add a few drops of Dave's Insanity into the keg to shut him up ;) !

Chaz - I will post the results in a couple of months.

[Fast_Eddy]

BREWERDLUX won 1st prize last year in the Austin Zealots Beer Inquisition in the pepper beer category. You might try PM'ing him for his recipe.

[HogieWan]

Originally posted by Grog
If it is too wussy for the guy, I will add a few drops of Dave's Insanity into the keg to shut him up


Just do what we do in cajun country - if you need more heat, add powered cayenne pepper. It'll spice up anything real quick without adding any different flavor

[Grog]

Originally posted by HogieWan
Just do what we do in cajun country - if you need more heat, add powered cayenne pepper. It'll spice up anything real quick without adding any different flavor

Have you ever tried tried Dave's Insanity Sauce? It doesn't add not'in' but heat! Really, a drop is like...stupid. The thing I love about Cajun is both heat and flavor are equally represented.

[HogieWan]

Originally posted by Grog
The thing I love about Cajun is both heat and flavor are equally represented.

Exactly

I've never seen (or looked for) Dave's. If I can't find it, I may have to trouble you for some.

[SoxyinMO]

The best Chili beer I've ever had was at Flat Branch in Columbia, Mo and it had a hint of pepper.

Al put 7 thai peppers in a gallon of California Common last year (secondary only) and it was so hot we couldn't drink it! And we are big on HOT HOT! We ended up using it mostly for marinating, and it was good for that, but even 1/2 chili and 1/2 anything else was too hot to drink.

Al is in the other room yelling: "tell him that the last thing he wants is 5 gallons of beer no one will drink." He recommends putting five jalapeños in the secondary.

Good luck!

[PFDarkside]

Originally posted by Grog
Have you ever tried tried Dave's Insanity Sauce? It doesn't add not'in' but heat! Really, a drop is like...stupid. The thing I love about Cajun is both heat and flavor are equally represented.
Standard issue in my "heat" cabinet. We were all dumb enough to try some of Da Bomb (http://www.sweatnspice.com/proddetail.php?prod=19) on a chip. Three beers later we were all still numb from the heat. (Nearly 5 times hotter than Dave's Insanity (http://www.sweatnspice.com/proddetail.php?prod=26))

[Fast_Eddy]

Originally posted by PFDarkside
Standard issue in my "heat" cabinet. We were all dumb enough to try some of Da Bomb (http://www.sweatnspice.com/proddetail.php?prod=19) on a chip. Three beers later we were all still numb from the heat. (Nearly 5 times hotter than Dave's Insanity (http://www.sweatnspice.com/proddetail.php?prod=26))

I've been tempted to buy a bottle of

The Source (http://www.hotsauceworld.com/source.html)

I saw it tasted on a FoodTV show and the poor guy was crying and his lips(and the surrounding tissue) were fire engine red.

[PFDarkside]

I saw that! Brutal... I doubt I'll ever try anything hotter than Da Bomb just straight. But how cool is it to say I own the hottest thing in the world?

My first batch of wings for my friends left them gunshy for all the batches since then. Hopefully their first experience with my homebrew is a little better.

[kevin]

That's not a cheap little bottle of liquid fire

[chazwicke]

I have a bottle of Pure Cap which is extremely hot. I forget the Scovall rating but at the time it was the hottest I could find. I never use it because I like some spice but only with flavor and it can't be so hot that it distroys all the other flavors of the dish or burns so much that I can't enjoy the meal. The Pure Cap has only been used on dares and probably no more than 10 drops have ever been sampled.

[wild]

Originally posted by chazwicke
I have a bottle of Pure Cap which is extremely hot.
Same here but I only use it to raise the heat level in chili or jerky without altering the flavor. Just a few drops at a time.

Wild

[Grog]

So I just finished this beer. I used a highly hopped blonde with an ABV of 5.5%. Tried a vodka infusion first (2 peppers and enough vodka to cover, no seeds.) slight pepper as a fruit taste, but no heat. I was getting desperate, so I sliced 5 pepers into rounds with the seeds where they have been sitting over night. Lots pepper taste, nice heat (medium salsa). Too much pepper taste, but it will have to do. I am sure the pepper flavor would lessen with age, but it is goin to be consumed next weekend.