Carolina Reaper Peppers - Pickling?

The pepper medley has been fermenting for about 2 weeks and 2 days. Tasted the brine earlier and it was “HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZNNNIIITTT” hot!!!  Thinking the 30 reapers were a little much. Lol. Flavor was good though. The Xanthan Gum is supposed to arrive tonight, so I’m gonna go ahead and whip up a batch and see what I got. Hoping once I blend up the fermented carrots, onions, sweet peppers, garlic, etc and mix it all together, the heat might mellow out a little.  Stay tuned.
 

lkapigian said:

Awesome @Dyal_SC it will mellow...id resist and go 3 full weeks....

Ok cool, thx @lkapigian , good to know... if it stands a chance of mellowing out more, I’ll definitely let it go another week. I was wondering if I may have just added too many reapers. The brine is hot as hell. 

Aww yeah... good stuff. Ended up adding in a good bit of rice vinegar (the whole bottle) because I thickened it a little too much with the Xanthan Gum. But the added vinegar made it even tastier in my opinion. Worked well!  Been busy so didn’t get any better pix than this. Lol 

lkapigian said:

Awesome @Dyal_SC....yup, dont take much gum , Tbs or 2 per full blender 

Used only a half Tbsn and it thickened like crazy.