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I may have gone overboard...

DocBoggs

DocBoggs

I have been lurking for a while, watching my peppers ripen and dreaming wild dreams of finally pulling the trigger and making my own sauce. 
 
I pored over all of the guides and advice that have been posted here and one night, after harvesting the last of the Habaneros and a few too many beers I made up my mind: I was going to ferment my own sauce. I wanted some variety of pepper besides the basic Habanero though, so I decided to bring in backup. 
 
The next morning dawned and I awoke to a headache and a receipt from Peppers By Mail. When my package arrived I realized I was in too deep 
 
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So.... Thanks for getting me in way over my head- I even bought out all the airlocks at my local homebrew store. 3 gallons is a reasonable start right? 
 
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Looks fantastic Doc, and welcome!

Looks like you already started the mash, any details for us? Also way to go with the pics, everybody loves pics. :)

What is the bonus pepper, looks knarly?

I bought some peppers from ajdrew as well. Great guy.
 
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Wife tells me that half of our orders come from people who are up drinking.  I cant find it, but she showed me a website dedicated to showing pictures of drunk purchases.  Googled it, didnt find the site but found lots of articles on the phenomena in various publications.  For some odd reason I thought: I want to be on that website and in those articles.  Now here I am reading about a confirmed drunk purchase.  I feel victorious.
 
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Well I ended up with 3 SFRB worth of unmarked super hots (Filled to bursting), so I decided that A : I would never be able to handle a sauce made out of solely super hots. And B: Christmas is right around the corner. 
 
To dilute the heat I went to Aldi and bought an eye-boggling amount of those small, sweet peppers (I think they have more of a pepper taste than a red bell pepper, plus red bell peppers are crazy expensive). I wanted to show off the flavor of the Carolina Reapers, so I made a couple quarts with seeded Reapers, salt, and the sweet peppers. I did the same with Chocolate Buht, the yellow ghost/fatali, and a mix. I have a couple experiments too, but I am worried those are not turning out as well so we will see if they turn out edible or not. 
 
The mash is going well, I processed them outside so I have a 25% Kahm infection rate so next time I will work in a more "sterile" space but they are bubbling like crazy. I plan to keep them going until Thanksgiving and then get to bottling. Now all I need is to figure out where to buy 3 gallons worth of bottles...
 
The peppers are a Carolina Reaper and a Trinidad Morgura (I think, no labels)
 
I will update if I end up with anything edible 
 
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Holy Cow!!!!! I guess yer the jump in with both feet kind of chili head!!!! That's awesome and welcome to the fermenting crew!!!!! :) need some idea of your mash what did you use for starters if any. Brine and salt solutions and more pics!!!! Hahaha Great Job!!!
 
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I had to abandon the airlocks- the peppers started trying to escape. 
 
I went to just a regular canning lid and burping/flipping 3 times a day- hopefully this will solve the Kahm problem and seems to keep the pepper mash from puffing up above the brine. 
 
 
Got another savina picture- 
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DocBoggs said:
I had to abandon the airlocks- the peppers started trying to escape. 
 
I went to just a regular canning lid and burping/flipping 3 times a day- hopefully this will solve the Kahm problem and seems to keep the pepper mash from puffing up above the brine. 
 
 
Got another savina picture- 
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Sounds like you're over filling your jars to much mash and brine if that's the case. Have you tried the cabbage leaf method for holding mash below brine.
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Welcome!  Great first post, pics, and products!
 
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ajdrew said:
Wife tells me that half of our orders come from people who are up drinking.  I cant find it, but she showed me a website dedicated to showing pictures of drunk purchases.  Googled it, didnt find the site but found lots of articles on the phenomena in various publications.  For some odd reason I thought: I want to be on that website and in those articles.  Now here I am reading about a confirmed drunk purchase.  I feel victorious.
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Ive told my mother on multiple occassions, her computer needs a breathalyzer!  I at least have the decency to contain my drunken surfing to youtube debates about why Zepplin is superior to the Stones! :drunk:
 
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Topsmoke said:
Ive told my mother on multiple occassions, her computer needs a breathalyzer!  I at least have the decency to contain my drunken surfing to youtube debates about why Zepplin is superior to the Stones! :drunk:
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No debate there, I agree!
 
-Alden
 
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