Let's make a chilli pepper beer..

Hey everyone, SAAAY WHhaaattt?? Yes really a chilli beer and you thought garlic beer was bad enough?? I follow a guy on YouTube Martin Keen homebrew challenge and he makes loads of beer, at a stage he made garlic beer and as bad as that sounds apparently it wasn't.

So how did this come about?? I have tried many different types and flavors of beer styles mango, Persimmon, many fruit varieties, lagers, ales, pilsner and more quiet frankly when u boil a fruit in my opinion those flavourful profiles don't draw through to the beer. It would appear that more flavour is achieved from the hopps than the fruit, so this time around I did it a little differently.

I boiled a few chillis from my mates next door "sneaky Pete's" garden for a few minutes, basically just to render inert for my brew as not to add any infection once bottled and also as not to remove the chilli "bite" and flavour. One doesn't want off flavors and certainly doesn't want bottle bombs which may happen if they rot in the beer, which is why they were boiled for 2 minutes (hoping that was enough)

I brewed a single malt, single hopp simple ale and on bottling to 6 bottles for experimental purposes only added a chilli each. These will condition for around 10 days after which I will cold crash in the fridge and then sample. The rest of the batch another 20 litres odd I bottled as normal with no chilli additions.

I used a simple pilsner malted barley, saaz hopps and that's it the most simple and low ibu and abv beer to date, how boring? Hopefully not. The OG was 1040 FG 1030 and end PH 5.3 my highest yet. I suspect my instrument may be off though as PH needs to be a little lower.

Kveik yeast super high performance and apparently you can make super good beer with it in 7-10 days. Guess what I'll be trying next if the weather permits, this needs to ferment fast and heat up to 35 degrees at ferment temp. Not bad.

Vienna malted barley for my next brew. Kveik yeast and this time around ill.maybe do a fuggle early hopp edition and Perle late addition. Who has tried Perle hopps??

My recently larger store bought "brew kettle" urn which is 25 litres and works and absolute dream for those larger batches.

Any keen tasters out there??
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Have a magic Sunday.

Cheer$;)