NM True Green Chile Brew

Aim for a mash temperature of 149 F and hold for 60 minutes. Mashout at 168 F and hold for 10 minutes. If not a full volume mash, sparge to collect approximately 7 gallons of wort. Add hops and boil for 60 minutes, adding whirlfloc tablet at 15 minutes remaining in boil. When boil is complete, chill to 50 F and transfer to primary. Pitch yeast. Carefully monitor SG and hold at 50 F until it hits 1.025. Then gradually raise temperature to 61 F. Transfer to prepared secondary with green chile peppers, or add green chile pepper infusion directly to primary (see note). Rest for three days after terminal gravity of 1.015 is achieved. If bottle conditioning, add priming solution with 5.9 oz dextrose to bottling bucket and siphon secondary over solution mixing well. Bottle, cap, wait 2 weeks (if possible) and enjoy!

NOTE: Wash peppers thoroughly and remove stems. Slice peppers lengthwise and remove seeds if desired. Coarsely chop into small 1/4" pieces. Add these directly to secondary or steep for 1 week in vodka. If steeping, strain away spent chiles after 1 week and add vodka infusion drop by drop to sample of beer from primary. Once desired level of heat is achieved, scale up the amount to the total batch size!