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Anyone have tips for working with peppers in your brews? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Dogiedog64@lemmy.world to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

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I'm interested in adding some spicy kick to my next brew, and was wondering if anyone had any tips for adding chili peppers to their brews. Currently, I have a bunch of dried Habanero peppers, but I could conceivably go for other ones. Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers!

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[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Did you try eating the peppers after the tincture is made? I wonder how effective the alcohol-based extraction is.. if there is any residual capsaicin left in the peppers.

[–] poleslav@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I can’t say that I have! I totally will try next time though. I will say though, the tincture I made with habaneros got my beer to the spice level I wanted (I order an 11/10 spice level at hole in the wall Thai restaurants if that gives any indication as to the spice level I like) but efficiency and extraction percent wise, no idea lol.