Finished up with another batch of sauce today. Got a nice 15 1/2 5 oz bottle yield. Quick run through I started a one gallon ferment about a month ago. Blend was approximately 20% serrano and 80% jalapeno. These were locally grown and both had significant heat. These weren't your run of th mill Kroger variety. Into the jar with a 3.5%sea salt brine and off to th dark basement cupboard.
After a month you see how the peppers color dulls. Checked PH and was right at 3.0. Bonus no Kahm at all. Funny enough I've been getting least yeast formation by breaking the rules and leaving very little headspace.
These gallon ferments make me wish for a Vitamix XL with the 1.5 gallon pitcher but can't justify the cost. I work two batches noting all flavor adjustments and then cross blend them . Here is the blended sauce off to the frig for an overnight rest. I find the flavor changes on some a lot overnight. Especially true of superhot blends with bitterness fading over night. On the right is leftover brine. It's tasty so I saved it for other uses. I did use some food coloring to have better aesthetics. Forgot to include it in labeling. Good thing I'm a home hack haha. Won't happen next time.
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Here is everything bottled and labeled. I love my cartoony labels but decided to create a more professionally labeled like of what I call table sauces. Sauces that are straight forward peppers flavors that go with almost anything served at the table. Happy with the design but not super happy with the color of the labeling for this sauce. I'm learning the label program but it's a work in progress.
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I really need to get a few new blends going now. At this point I have this, hAbsolutely Habanero and PeppeDILLard I'm hawking locally. Thanks for looking!
Here is everything bottled and labeled. I love my cartoony labels but decided to create a more professionally labeled like of what I call table sauces. Sauces that are straight forward peppers flavors that go with almost anything served at the table. Happy with the design but not super happy with the color of the labeling for this sauce. I'm learning the label program but it's a work in progress.