Devil's Water: Seven pepper infused tequila

Make your own spicy tequila. It is so hot you will wish for an immediate death. Then, you will experience an exhilarating, natural high. Its not from the alcohol but the hot peppers or maybe its the evil...

Step 1: Gather ingredients

- First, you must decide what kind of tequila to use as your devil's water base. I like to use 1800. The bottle is perfect; it looks good, the mouth is wider then most bottles, and the tequila tastes great.

- If you want to use a cheaper/different tequila, you might want to get yourself a different glass container, mason jar, or jug for your infusion. If you use a different container, i suggest sanitizing the vessel by boiling or using brewer's sanitizer.

- Next, gather an assortment of hot peppers. All hot peppers contain capsaicinoids. These make peppers taste like burning. The capsaicinoids are located predominately in the white veins and seeds inside the pepper. Scoville units measure the peppers burning qualities. I like to use an assortment of peppers from habaneros (100k-300k scoville units) to the more mild jalapeno (2.5k-5k scoville units). I use about .5 - .75 pounds of peppers for one bottle. The kind and amount can very but keep in mind your devil's water should make you want to cry.

Comments

[RuudvandeLooij]

Nice one. Here's my version of your Devil's Water. I used Bacardi because I had it available. The peppers I used were bird's eye chili, and as you can see I used a lot of them for less than 0.5 L. The bottle is from Rhodos I think, but I'm not sure. Names for my version still need to come, suggestions are accepted.

Tasted it last night and it was not something I liked. Filled my shot glass only 1 cm but it was more than enought.

[tinker234]

could i make a non alchlic verison

[Batness]

This is fantastic. LOVE hot stuff, what a great idea! Even makes me want to try tequila...

[JohnJY]

Any nonalcoholic recipes or ideas for this?

[Batness]

Try making peppered vinegars. It's kinda hard to read an infused TEQUILA Instructable and try for a non-alcoholic anything.

[captainallbeard]

Hey! I know you! I have had this vile substance before. And it was gooooooood. Makes you all sweaty and dizzy.

[platdujour]

rosemary's baby ... very funny.

[Mr Criver]

This is totally my kind of thing. I love spicy foods, grow my own habaneros, Jalapenos and Serranos (and grow so much I don't know what to do with them come harvest time) AND I am a tequila junkie... What better than to literally combine my favorites into something kickass like this. I will try it with an inferior type of tequila though. It's stuff I would never drink (given to me as a party gift) as it is, but maybe it'll grow into something decent after adding the peppers. Thank you for the great Instructable.

[bustedit]

i get pretty pumped off tequila anyway, but i am going to give this a shot (get it! a shot!!) with some cuervo traditionale i won at a benefit lunch. it's supposedly a limited number bottle, but it doesnt taste much better than the sauza blanco we have and certainly doesnt taste as good or smooth as patron, of course. you think i could add cherry or grape tomatoes, raw horseradish and try for the complete bloody mary taste?? i've never seen anyone infuse w tomatoes and i dont wana f up some decent hooch.

[aliceownsj00]

lol I thought it was some kind of flavor add for when you cooked. My uncle would love this idea, he's a big tequila fiend and can eat jarred habaneros like they are candy. lol yeah I believe he has no taste buds anymore haha

[Babyshoes]

Yikes! Good instructable, but I won't be trying it. I have better ways to release endorphins, thanks! (That said, I am a wimp for spicy food, as my stomach doesn't handle it well, and spending hours in the bathroom is a good antidote to endorphins! I can't even eat basic curry as spicy as I would like it. Irritating IBS!)

[DrWeird117]

I ate 6 Habaneros back-to-back one!

[pyro13]

Woah, Way awsome. This would make a great party drink!

[killerjackalope]

Now this is my kind of thing... It occurs to me that this is probably one of the best party drinks ever, people will fear drinking it, it's shootable and drinkable if you like spicy stuff and it puts you in the mood to party...

[mrxavia]

Great instructable, this is something I will have to try!

[Sandisk1duo]

Awesome! Do this with Vodka, the alcohol is more diluted, but you can drink more of it and still drive! What, i didn't know about hot peppers releasing endorphins, that's awesome, i never really noticed until now! Another random fact to add to my ever-growing collection!