Chilli

[delboy]

How long is a peice of string, taste is very subjective, my advice would be don't put it in at any stage of the brewing process as if you overdo it you could easily ruin 5 gallons of beer. Pour a pint and the stick a few drops of tabasco sauce into it, if its not hot enough add more if its too hot repeat with a few less drops, if its just right note the amount of drops you used and use the same amount to reproduce your ideal chilli beer each time. Simples

[mysterio]

Beer with tabasco in it... that's my evening sorted

[Barley Water]

Hot peppers is the way to go if you want something that will work and is "Texan". If you like, for an "out there" visual effect, you can actually drop a pepper into each bottle (you know, it's like a worm in the bottom of a tequella bottle). From an historical perspective though, Texas was somewhat of a wasteland from a beer perspective until the craft beer movement came along. Probably the style with the most historical relavence around here are the VMO beers (similar to what was going on in Mexico) due to the influx of German imigrants. Of course, they kept adding adjucts to the beer (hence the afore mentioned wasteland comment above) which culminated in the infamous Lone Star lager which is worse than bad. I made a Vienna lager this last summer which I "cut" with 20% corn grits. I got the effect I was looking for, it really lightened the beer up and was great in the summer heat but frankly, I thought it was somewhat boring. Anyway, if you try for a pepper beer, I would probably want to keep the hops down otherwise they will clash with the flavor and heat from the peppers. Anyway, good luck, a beer like that would be very unique in the UK I bet.

[delboy]

a beer like that would be very unique in the UK I bet.

There is at least one thats not that difficult to find i think its by black mountain brewery, rank stuff, one of the few commercial beers i could not finish. Its basically just a light lager with a chilli floating about in it.

[delboy]

Beer with tabasco in it... that's my evening sorted

And probably your morning on the toilet sorted as well

[raiderman]

The Scotch Malt Whiskey Society had the same idea and put cask strength whisky in an ex tabasco barrel to mature. Surprise surprise it was undrinkable! They sold it as a cooking sauce - made a great cure for gravad lax!> I'd break the beer down into demijohns and add chilli then whilst you lager it, that wayy can experiment with loadings and not ruin the whole batch

[mysterio]

a beer like that would be very unique in the UK I bet.

There is at least one thats not that difficult to find i think its by black mountain brewery, rank stuff, one of the few commercial beers i could not finish. Its basically just a light lager with a chilli floating about in it.

Yeah I poured this one out too, It was like they used a pickled jalapeno (like the ones you get a the cinema only whole), complete with salt and vinegar, and dropped it into the beer.

However that doesn't mean you can't make a good chilli beer, I would pick one of the dried chillies with the more interesting tobacco, raisiny flavours like Guajillo or Ancho, soak in boiled water and throw two or three in the secondary fermenter.

[adm]

Stick an orange habanero into each bottle then leave it for a year to mature