chili beer

[ade1865]

Has anyone made one, and if so what was the recipe and how did it go? I'm thinking a nice chocalatey malt with a hint of chili, and maybe some spices....

[Aleman]

I've known a couple of people that have made a chili beer . . . the last one ended up as drain cleaner

The trick is not to use a pale beer as a base, aim for a darker mild (with a subtle chili flavour/heat) or up the scale with a stout (with an appropriate increase in flavour/heat). I would start with say 10 Jalapeno in the boil initially (Seeds and all) and see how it goes from there.

[delboy]

fair play to you adm, i've hated any chilli beers i've tried, they've all went down the sink and it takes a lot for me to do that.

[stevezx7r]

There's only a few things I wouldn't want to risk in a beer I make, one of which is chilli.

I like chilli on everything else, it's just the thought of wrecking what may have been an otherwise excellent beer which stops me.

If you go for it, take pics

[awalker]

I have made chilli wine before, its good for cooking with and thats it.

Is there any merits in 'dry chilling', putting it in the fermenter and keeping a constant check on how the flavour develops and pull it out when you have had enough?

[mysterio]

I think I would go for a flavourful dried chilli like Ancho, and steep it in the secondary after pasteurising. I think it would work well in a dark beer. Or a Chipotle smoked beer with Rauchmalz could be tasty

[Madbrewer]

I did this with a lager kit.

I primed the bottle with tiny chillis instead of sugar but didn't actually brew with any in the fermenter.

I chose Thai red chilli's

Novel but I wouldn't do it again, also the chillis were too hot!

[jonnyv]

Chilis + Beer =

[Aleman]

I chose Thai red chilli's . . . also the chillis were too hot!

I one heard those Birds Eye chillies refered to as "Use them Whole . . .Count them into the food . . . and count them out . . . . before serving" . . . Thats my idea of a chilli

[Whorst]

I'm in agreement, it's dreadful. Cave Creek over here make one. Nothing to write home about. Would be interesting to drop a Naga in bottle of home brew and use the beer for a fish n' chip batter.

[coatesg]

Had about 2 sips of a bottle of chilli beer before and it went down the sink too ergh.

[wetdog]

had some in a pub once and had some chilli vodka too but its just wrong on so many levels. I wouldn't put hops on my dinner either though

[ade1865]

ok i may put this one on the back burner [boom boom tsh] for a while then. Instead I shall look into rejigging Graham Wheeler's mulled ale recipe.

[Aleman]

had some in a pub once and had some chilli vodka too but its just wrong on so many levels.

Chilli vodka I am into what is so wrong with it? I used to get some 140 Proof 'Vodka' from the Polish programmers, that came over to fix the bad code they sent us in the first place. . . .Prick a dozen or so Scotch bonnet peppers, and put them in a large kilner jar . . . add vodka, leave for a couple of weeks shaking daily . . . strain chillies out of vodka, put vodka back into bottle . . . put bottle in freezer . . Drink neat straight from the freezer (put in a glass first though ). . . or use to make a wicked Bloody Mary . . . real hair of the dog