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Habaneros

Hi All,

I thought I'd give a try to Jack's Jalapeno wine recipe. So I go to Produce Depot here in Ottawa to pick up 8 nice green Jalapenos to make up for the 1 gallon recipe. Right beside the Jalapenos, I see the Habaneros! I think to myself "Why not take it to the next level?" So I picked up 6 (3 yellow and 3 red) habaneros to make up another gallon... I used Jack's recipe but substituted the 8-16 Jalapenos for 4 Habaneros...

Litterature says the Habaneros are between 200 000 and 577 000 Scoville Units (unit to measure for the heat in chile peppers) and regular Jalapenos are 2 500 and 5 000 Scoville.

I can't wait to see the end result. Might come out being way too hot for drinking but if it does i'll just use it as a cooking wine.

Anyone out there crazy enough to have ever tried it with Habaneros ? Let me know what you think !

EB

Reply to
Eric Bisaillon
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Yep , been there done that .... even got the t shirt .

Reply to
Greg Boyd

It will probably become a flavoring for Virgin Marys. A little will go a long way. By making it so hot, not much can be used in a drink. An addition of vodka will be necessary for alcoholic content. Rather self-defeating. Tim

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Tim McNally

I think you need to join Bob and Doug MacKenzie at the Royal Canadian Institute for the Mentally Insane! LOL!!

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Bob

And you have to buy Preparation H too....

Reply to
Bob

Eric Bisaillon wrote: Litterature says the Habaneros are between 200 000 and 577 000 Scoville

Eric,

Offhand, I'd say you're treading on dangerous ground. Consider this: A Scoville unit is "a milliliter of water needed to rinse out the taste of a hot pepper." You choose to put about 4 x 400,000 Scovilles into a gallon of wine. That comes to 1,600,000 per gal. or 64,000 units per 5 oz glass of wine. Hmmmmm..... Theoretically you might have to drink 64 LITERS of water after each glass of Habanero wine. Consider how many trips to the bathroom that represents over night... Ye Gods, man! What were you thinking? ;-)

Reply to
MikeMTM

I have to admit, some of the replies I got on this one made me laugh pretty hard ! The Habaneros are more of an experiment than anything else... The thing is probably going to be waaaaay too hot to handle but hey, you never know until you try it! I'm thinking cooking is going to be the main use of this liquid fire.

EB

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Eric Bisaillon

I did that a few years ago. It was very difficult to get it to ferment to dryness. I used more peppers than that recipe calls for, and it's pretty hot. Best use is probably in a marinade for BBQ, or possibly as an entry in an amateur winemaking contest - just to observe the judges' reaction. ;^D

Tom S

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Tom S

After drinking a glass of that wine, be sure to follow it up with a pint or more of Ice Cream. Then, next morning when you go to the bathroom you can yell, "COME ON ICE CREAM, COME ON ICE CREAM". Method works very well, as does a powder puff.

Jim

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Jim

An entire tube of Nupercainal hemorrhoid cream put where the sun don't shine is also a necessity...

Reply to
Bob

Heheheheh, not yet, but I'm a chilehead that grows red habs and Scotch Bonnets, and plan to make some at one point! So, I guess I'll be asking if you post your results before I make mine? Heh...

',;~}~

Shaun aRe

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Shaun

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