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Hello, /ck/, I come to you with a quick question.

I'm trying my hand at brewing mead. I have that down so far, but a friend of mine is paying for me to make him a personal gallon the next time I make some. I told him I would throw anything he wanted in there for flavour, and he threw the absolutely off the wall suggestion of coffee beans and habanero peppers.

My question is will the spiciness of the peppers kill the yeast? I honestly have no idea. If so, I could save it for after racking and when I start aging it to add the pepper.

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>> No.5377593

>>5377588
>My question is will the spiciness of the peppers kill the yeast?

No, of course it won't. The "heat" is not a real physical property, it's how your body reacts to the capsacin in the peppers. It won't kill yeast, or anything else for that matter.

Coffee and habanero in mead? It's going to taste like ass though.

>> No.5377602

>>5377593
>No, of course it won't. The "heat" is not a real physical property

I know, I just wondered if yeast disagreed with said capsacin.

>Coffee and habanero in mead? It's going to taste like ass though.

Probably. I don't have high hopes, but he wanted something off the wall and he's paying $25 for it, so I'm not going to judge. Hell, I'm probably going to try it myself out of sheer curiosity. How bad can it really be?

>> No.5377607

>>5377602
Sounds like it will be horrible. Can you get him to try something else?

>> No.5377621

>>5377607

Well, his alternate choice was chocolate and jalapeño. He's strange, but he's paying for the cost of making the gallon plus a small profit, so I really can't complain. I might post on here just to share the knowledge of what coffee and habanero mead tastes like.

If nothing else, it could be a joke drink. We'll convince our friends to try it because it's so terrible.

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5377876

>I told him I would throw anything he wanted in there for flavour, and he threw the absolutely off the wall suggestion of coffee beans and habanero peppers.


>Well, his alternate choice was chocolate and jalapeño

>> No.5377901

I'd guess it might be better to use the peppers in secondary, but that's just because I generally prefer putting fruits and stuff in secondary. I looked a little into using coffee with beer and a lot of recipes seem to call for using cold-brewed coffee rather than just adding coffee beans - maybe it gets too bitter if you were to just leave the beans in secondary. So I guess maybe you could rack to secondary with the habanero and then top-up with cold-brewed coffee?

>> No.5377979

>>5377901

That might could work, but I believe the point of having it be coffee and habanero is so that it is bitter as fuck and hot as hell. I have doubts that adding things in at different points would change much for this particular batch.

>> No.5378305

>>5377588
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cqDXlfASMM

>> No.5378418

>>5377588

That is going to taste like ass.

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>>5378305