[CH] Chile Beer

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>Did something similar to this.  I brewed up a couple of batches of beer
with
>chillies added.
>
>Got a lot of interesting reactions from people who tried it and it inspired
>a couple of friends to take up homebrewing because they loved the taste so
>much.  Even came up with the name "Thermal Runaway" for it (have one sip,
>hot, have two sips to cool things down, hotter, have three sips to cool
>things down, hotter still, etc).  We actually found that there was a level
>of heat that each of us could tolerate and then you just stopped drinking
>until your mouth cooled a bit. My wife liked it because she reckoned it
>slowed my consumption down!
>
>Andrew Hood


Here in the US a commercial brand of chile beer is available -- Ed's Cave
Creek.  My husband bought me a 6-pack for Valentine's Day one year.  Each
bottle includes a chile.  They had a great ad campaign that year -- "lime is
for wimps."

I don't drink much Ed's Cave Creek anymore.  A friend brews beer as a hobby
and makes up cases for me featuring peppers from my garden.  The first batch
was very similar to ECC, but then Ray decided to try including the peppers
in the wort.  Yowzah!  Wonderful, wonderful stuff.

An added benefit -- no one but me will drink it.  It's too hot! others
complain, it's not refreshing.  I just smile and pop the lid off another icy
one.

Ginny

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