Jalapeno, cucumber mead

[Lampie]

I could not get this recipe out of my head. I like hot peppers, it takes a bit of practice to eat them but if you finally eat them its great. Most chili or hot peppers have a great taste. still have a lot of honey left and some empty DJ`s so ordered some jalapeno online and now its time to brew :)

recipe 5 liter:
1 large cucumber
4 jalapeno
1.8kg flower honey
yeast nutrient
mead yeast

I am writing while brewing this. I have to wait untill my jalapeno, cucumber tea or should i say fresh hot soup is ready.

Could only order a kilo jalapeno so the rest is going in the freezer for later use.

getting ready to mix and cut this all.

Cleaned the cucumber and jalapeno that i am going to use and put on some protection.

cut open the jalapeno and removed the seeds

cut it all

put it in 2 l of boiling water and will leave it for about 30 minutes with a lid on the pan to make a soup, tea :?

had a little taste of the soup i made and it was actualy nice. It was a faint cucumber taste with a light heat in the back of the throat. Then added the honey to the soup.

on a very low heat stirred in all the honey and let this cool for 10 minutes ofcourse had to taste this. The honey added a nice twist. first getting the cucumber taste and then a bit of heat and then the sweet honey taste comes in. Then poured it in to my dj and put in my yeast and yeast nutrient and topped off with water.

 

[martindisorder]

This sounds interesting I will be keeping an eye on this thread to see how it turns out

 

[Lampie]

the taste was great and i hope that some of the taste will still be there after fermentation, if not will flavor it when racking by adding a piece of cucumber and habanero and leave that for a week and then rack again to get some age.