By the way, for those who are interested in costs, I figure my pepper brew ingredients set me back about $15. The DME was the major expense, and I got it from St. Pats at a decent $2/lb. So, about $10 for the DME, maybe $2 for the grains, and a buck's worth of hops. The peppers came out of my garden and I originally cultured the yeast from a six-pack of Red Hook Hefeweisen a few years ago, so the total was about $13 for 5 gallons. That makes it about $0.35 a pint....the chili beer at the brewpub cost $2.50, and I think that was the Happy Hour price. Cave Creek, the only bottled chili beer I can get around here, is about $6 a six-pack of 12oz. Now, if I could just bring myself to take the all-grain plunge, I could probably get the price down to $0.20 a pint, or so! Not that money is of any real significance when we're talking about beer! [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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