Sweet Pepper Beer

[smithdj42]

So I'll have more bell peppers than I can handle from my garden here soon. I know there are a lot of chile beers out there right now, but I'm having a tough time finding any recipes or conversations about people brewing with sweet peppers. I'm thinking something light so they really shine through.

Any thoughts?

 

[Chanoc]

Do you like hot peppers??
If you do... you can make marmalade with green peppers and hot peppers to the level of hotness desired...
I have made a pure habanero marmalade...
It was great but you couldn't eat more than a couple of chili halves...
I am sure that using green peppers would have been great...
Eventually I'll try that...

 

[smithdj42]

I do like hot peppers, I have Birds Eye Peppers and Cayenne Peppers growing right now as well. I've tried a few spicy pepper beers, but I'm really interested in making a sweet pepper beer this year. I'm thinking maybe a witbier base with a lime zest, and coriander at flameout. Then roasting half of the bells and keeping the other half fresh and adding them to the secondary. .

 

[Biscuits]

Don't give up the dream...sweet pepper beer sounds awesome....give it a go!

 

[20grit]

I made a dry mead with jalapeños. It ended up with a strange vegetable taste. I'd be afraid of the same from sweet peppers. You'd need to find the right flavor balance. May take some doing.

 

[jerbrew]

I like the idea of roasting them maybe even give them a little time in a smoker. Sort of like a sweet version of a chipotle beer. in fact I think it would be tasty in something really light like a blonde ale. But I really like peppers

 

[smithdj42]

Were the jalepenos fresh or did you cook them first. I'm wondering if it makes a difference in avoiding the vegetable taste.

 

[TBC]

I made a jalapeño cream ale twice. The first time I quartered the jalapeños length wise and removed the seeds and placed 1 quarter piece in each bottle and filled. The beer had a nice jalapeño flavor and lots of heat. The problem was the heat varied from bottle to bottle and it was a pain to get the pepper out to reclean the bottle.

The second time I made it I quartered the peppers and put them in a secondary along with some seeds for a couple of weeks then bottled them. They had the same jalapeño flavor and a good amount of heat and the bottles were pretty consistent. The problem I had with this batch was that over say 2-3 months the heat was gone and I just had a pepper flavored beer. It was still good but I missed the heat from it.

Your sweet pepper beer will be fine, I would just use a lighter based beer so the pepper flavor shines.