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by **goinbroke2** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:01 pm

Well this might sound weird, but I've bought/scrounged/borrowed everything I could read about making beer/wine and spirits. It was to get a really good understanding on not only what I'm doing but what happens and why. Well a while back I read a book my mother had when she made homemade wine in the 60's. Lots of notes and costs etc (.02 per pack of yeast, .28 for a bag of sugar etc)

Anyway, in this book it goes on to say that pepper has no taste, only the chemicals that give a taste or feeling of heat. They added it to a bottle of wine to give you a warm heat-in-the-chest when you drink it. So, I thought "wonder what that would do in white dog with the toasted oak cube"?

I bottled 20 bottles of white dog on the 2nd of September with one cube of toasted Hungarian oak per bottle. I then added two pepper corns (the kind you put in a pepper mill). After a week I went ....oh oh..I just ruined a whole batch...But I decided if it's ruined anyway, might as well let it mature maybe it'll get better.

OH BABY! It's getting better now! It is still too raw to drink (I like to mature 3-6 months) but has it ever changed. Take a sip straight and it stings the lips a bit and gives some real heat in the chest. I would compare it to sipping cask strength whiskey straight, (68% or more) even though it is only 40%. This is the first batch I've done this with so the next couple I won't. When it is 6 months old I'll see if it's as good as I think it will be and I'll report back. If it is I might go and add peppers on a routine basis.

Anyway, that's my "something new" I thought I would share. Anybody ever heard of this or tried it?
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by **Tater** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:15 pm

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by **heynonny** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:24 am

I dont know how it would work with distilled, but when I used to brew, I would sometimes add 2-3 fresh jalapen(y)o chilies to the cooking pot. The flavor was best with polish and german hops, the ones not so bitter, , , -hey-

by **DrTorque** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:55 am

I add mashed jalapenos (muddled with a little sugar) to margaritas every once in a while. They're not very popular, but sometimes I like them.

by **goinbroke2** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:05 pm

Thanks Tater...(don't I feel dumb)

I have these flashes of ingenuity..unfortunately, somebody was ingenius before me! :lol:

Hopefully it will turn out good then.

Umm, I don't think I'll try the jalapeno though.. :shock:

by **Tater** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:37 pm

Dont think there much that aint been done before.That dont mean it cant be reinvented :wink:

by **Fester** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:56 pm

goinbroke2, you said it is getting better and better. I agree with you. Most of my experiments suck at first and are great after some months go by. Maybe better after years, don't know - the "experiment" is sadly all gone by then. If you were not so cheap - and I mean that in the nicest way - I'd say break down and buy a barrel or two. Work like a distilling banshe and fill them with the best you've got. Then let it all age a bit and MOST IMPORTANT...(read this part VERY carefully) invite me over!!!

Fester

by **goinbroke2** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:06 pm

Ya know Fester, that's the one sad thing about this hobby, you gotta be discrete. Too bad it wasn't legal cause I'd love to invite others over and compare notes...or compare toilet bowls when we "sample" too much. :lol:

Seriously, you'd be one of the very first I'd crack a bottle with. :ewink:

I had a poopload stored away maturing..but then I bought a cottage and took two weeks off....yeah, exactly.
So I did another run and have another dozen bottles or more maturing..but still nothing to drink unless I crack one open.
I've got about 20L of whitedog in various stages (low wines/feigns) and about 80L of wash to go.

I need a weekend without the family around and do about a dozen runs back to back. Then bottle all that...now, to get rid of the family for the weekend...hmmm....

by **Fester** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:51 pm

Easy fix, GB2, sell the cottage and buy another still.
Or let the family go "camping" at the cottage.
Or turn the cottage into a still house.
Fester has ALL the answers.

by **goinbroke2** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:52 am

Cottage into a still house......hmmmmm

You know, if I modify a pump to suck from the lake to cool the coil...propane for heat anyway....it is somewhat secluded..of course the people that ARE there are older/retired and nosy as hell.
That and the kids running dirtbikes and 4 wheelers attracting the cops might be bad..but it could prove interesting...

Or just send them there and carry on here in the garage.

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