Erisian Brewer's Cadre. Or: How I saw the Goddess in the first place

[Luna]

I said I'd try it.  I did.  I figure the Thermonuclear Vindaloo did nothing but some disturbing gurgles, I'd see if it could handle this.  So far, so good... though I'll give it until tomorrow before I call it clear.

(How DO you know how many vibrating cock rings LMNO has, anyway?)

Besides...  Now Richter can convince ANY of the guys to drink the stuff, after all, if LUNA can drink it, how bad can it be, right?   

[Suu]

If you can drink it, it's not hot enough.

MORE PEPPERS!

[Luna]

If you can drink it, it's not hot enough.

MORE PEPPERS!

Note, I did NOT finish the shot he handed to me.  But I tried it.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Sounds fucking delicious!

We're making people sign a waiver before they drink it. I had a drop, nay, a finger swipe of the top of the jar and my tongue went numb on impact.

that's what I'm talkin about

[Richter]

The first drink of it I had made me burst into tears.  People go on about "I learned how to drink in / from the such and such.", but this is stuff you have to know how to consume, or it WILL wreck your head.

I gave Herbert a shot and he looked like someone maced him.

[Luna]

The first drink of it I had made me burst into tears.  People go on about "I learned how to drink in / from the such and such.", but this is stuff you have to know how to consume, or it WILL wreck your head.

I gave Herbert a shot and he looked like someone maced him.

I didn't get tears, but mostly because I think all the fluid in my system rushed to my mouth to put out the fire.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

I just noticed that my local grocer has started carrying dried ghost chilies.  I want to brew a beer with them.  I'm trying to decide on the base beer -- it's going to have to be a powerful beer with a whole lot of flavor of its own to stand up to those chilies, maybe like an imperial IPA, an imperial stout, or an American barleywine.  I'm thinking if the base beer isn't at least 14% ABV with a shitload of dextrins and melanoidins, then all you will taste is the chilies.

I have never tasted a ghost chili before, so I will have to do some experimenting with the peppers first, get familiar with them to try to understand what sort of flavors would best complement them.

[Suu]

There is no taste, just numbness and heat.

Really, there's a slightly smoked flavor from the dried chilies (I don't know if they can legally sell them ripe), but then all bets are off. Like I said, a drop of the initial blend (before Richter added the other ingredients, so just the 4 peppers in the Everclear in the food processor) made my tongue go almost instantly numb.

They aren't a pepper, they're a goddamn weapon of mass destruction....and we're going to have so much goddamn fun with this concoction.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I just noticed that my local grocer has started carrying dried ghost chilies.  I want to brew a beer with them.  I'm trying to decide on the base beer -- it's going to have to be a powerful beer with a whole lot of flavor of its own to stand up to those chilies, maybe like an imperial IPA, an imperial stout, or an American barleywine.  I'm thinking if the base beer isn't at least 14% ABV with a shitload of dextrins and melanoidins, then all you will taste is the chilies.

I have never tasted a ghost chili before, so I will have to do some experimenting with the peppers first, get familiar with them to try to understand what sort of flavors would best complement them.

I bet they'd be good in a braggot

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

There is no taste, just numbness and heat.

Really, there's a slightly smoked flavor from the dried chilies (I don't know if they can legally sell them ripe), but then all bets are off. Like I said, a drop of the initial blend (before Richter added the other ingredients, so just the 4 peppers in the Everclear in the food processor) made my tongue go almost instantly numb.

They aren't a pepper, they're a goddamn weapon of mass destruction....and we're going to have so much goddamn fun with this concoction.

It seems the Indian military agrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_chilli#As_a_weapon

I just noticed that my local grocer has started carrying dried ghost chilies.  I want to brew a beer with them.  I'm trying to decide on the base beer -- it's going to have to be a powerful beer with a whole lot of flavor of its own to stand up to those chilies, maybe like an imperial IPA, an imperial stout, or an American barleywine.  I'm thinking if the base beer isn't at least 14% ABV with a shitload of dextrins and melanoidins, then all you will taste is the chilies.

I have never tasted a ghost chili before, so I will have to do some experimenting with the peppers first, get familiar with them to try to understand what sort of flavors would best complement them.

I bet they'd be good in a braggot

That's a good idea, one I hadn't thought of.

[leln]

There is no taste, just numbness and heat.

Really, there's a slightly smoked flavor from the dried chilies (I don't know if they can legally sell them ripe), but then all bets are off. Like I said, a drop of the initial blend (before Richter added the other ingredients, so just the 4 peppers in the Everclear in the food processor) made my tongue go almost instantly numb.

They aren't a pepper, they're a goddamn weapon of mass destruction....and we're going to have so much goddamn fun with this concoction.

Occasionally my dad will get reminiscing about his college days when he was a bright young engineering student and his roomie was a talented chem major. Apparently the two of them refined alcohol to the point that two or three shots in a a gallon of other liquid constituted a reasonably potent "punch," and if you annoyed them they'd offer you a shot of the shit straight. If you were lucky, your tongue went gray from losing one or two layers of skin, then you fell over. Even adjusted for embellishment, I shudder to think of the parties the two of them must have thrown. And he wonders why I took the "freshman female" survival tips to heart when I got to college.

[Luna]

There is no taste, just numbness and heat.

Really, there's a slightly smoked flavor from the dried chilies (I don't know if they can legally sell them ripe), but then all bets are off. Like I said, a drop of the initial blend (before Richter added the other ingredients, so just the 4 peppers in the Everclear in the food processor) made my tongue go almost instantly numb.

They aren't a pepper, they're a goddamn weapon of mass destruction....and we're going to have so much goddamn fun with this concoction.

Occasionally my dad will get reminiscing about his college days when he was a bright young engineering student and his roomie was a talented chem major. Apparently the two of them refined alcohol to the point that two or three shots in a a gallon of other liquid constituted a reasonably potent "punch," and if you annoyed them they'd offer you a shot of the shit straight. If you were lucky, your tongue went gray from losing one or two layers of skin, then you fell over. Even adjusted for embellishment, I shudder to think of the parties the two of them must have thrown. And he wonders why I took the "freshman female" survival tips to heart when I got to college.

That's...  No, not surprising, actually...

[leln]

There is no taste, just numbness and heat.

Really, there's a slightly smoked flavor from the dried chilies (I don't know if they can legally sell them ripe), but then all bets are off. Like I said, a drop of the initial blend (before Richter added the other ingredients, so just the 4 peppers in the Everclear in the food processor) made my tongue go almost instantly numb.

They aren't a pepper, they're a goddamn weapon of mass destruction....and we're going to have so much goddamn fun with this concoction.

Occasionally my dad will get reminiscing about his college days when he was a bright young engineering student and his roomie was a talented chem major. Apparently the two of them refined alcohol to the point that two or three shots in a a gallon of other liquid constituted a reasonably potent "punch," and if you annoyed them they'd offer you a shot of the shit straight. If you were lucky, your tongue went gray from losing one or two layers of skin, then you fell over. Even adjusted for embellishment, I shudder to think of the parties the two of them must have thrown. And he wonders why I took the "freshman female" survival tips to heart when I got to college.

That's...  No, not surprising, actually...

Yeah, our clan is like that. Spatial relations of apples to trees, etc. etc. Though we still manage to scare our parents from time to time.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

I'm drinking the first bottle of my chipotle-Kahlua stout now.  When I tasted it straight out of the fermenter, almost all I could taste was the chipotles -- not that I mind the taste of chipotles, but I was hoping the Kahlua and the stout character would shine through a little better.  Now that it is bottle conditioned, I get stout and Kahlua up front and in the middle, and I don't get the chipotles until the finish.  But when I get them, boy do I ever get them, like a kick in the teeth blast of chipotle.  

I LOVE this beer.

If anyone can make it to Baxter Village in Fort Mill, SC on Saturday, March 12 between 2-6 PM, I'll be serving this beer on cask at this event: http://www.partylikealeprechaun.info/

That event was a lot of fun even though my beer didn't place in the competition.  I think I came in around 4th or 5th out of 11.  I knew going in that this beer wasn't for everybody.  Many people absolutely loved it, but there weren't enough of them, and there were too many people who thought it was "too spicy" or some such nonsense. 

I watched several people read the description, make a yuck face, and keep on walking.  Good for them -- I don't want to waste awesome beer on people who aren't worthy of it.  I have another batch of this beer fermenting now, and I refuse to dumb it down for the masses.  I don't care if nobody else likes it -- that's more for me.

PMZ,
is the Howard Roark of brewing.

[Richter]

You sir, are a first class beer pervert!