Cave Creek Chili Beer

Brewed by Cervecería Mexicana
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Tecate, Mexico

Sickly muddy greenish amber beer wiith no head. Aroma of jalapeño in vinegar. Oxidized malt (1 year old bottle) with Tabasco picante,lingering and unpleasant. A drain pour. Tasted Spring 2006.

33 cL clear bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with no head. Spiced chili aroma. Sweet malty at first yet with a really solid chili spiced bite towards into the finish. Almost burning spiced. Quite a bit to much.

Bottle. I have to say that I am pretty excited for the experience that awaits. The major anxiety of the pour - clear glass ruins a lot of suspense - was whether the chili would fall out of the bottle. It did. Suspense over, boring looking pale yellow with a little bit of a fizzy head. After a while, the pepper collects enough carbonation float around... that is pretty exciting, too. Aromas are mostly chili pepper. I am not sure if there is any flavor other than chili... no... on second sip,there is a bit of a lager blah-ness up front an then the fire starts. I am not sure if this qualifies as beer, though. They could get the same effect putting a chili pepper in anything else. Still, I do like some heat, so this is kind of nice. This is weird stuff.

Fire in a bottle. Couldn’t drink more than a sip. Nice novelty I suppose with the ’whole chili’ concept. Way too spicy for me to drink. I bet it would make a decent base for a mexican chili though...

Punished by Skyview. Light yellow color with no head. Aroma of wheat and peppers. Fairly spicy, and definitely like sucking on a chili pepper, but not not nearly as nuclear as I had feared. Nonetheless, it tastes like crap.

Bottle. Way too much heat too taste anything but bitterness and some grains. Ended up pourning the beer on my brats while boiling them, and i got the pepper out of the bottle and boiled it in as well. Totally awesome to use for cooking, but not much for drinking. Why drink a beer if you cant enjoy it or get a buzz?

Crazy Ed’s version, from Total Wine in Richmond, VA. Pours pale yellow with no head. Aroma is straight jalapeno peppers. Taste is about three seconds of a boring grainy and thin pale lager followed with absolute heat. They had to put as much heat in here as possible to cover up the crappy beer.

Bottle containing a whole pepper pours a clear golden color with small head that quickly fades. Aroma is mostly chili pepper/hot sauce. Flavor is light, but really all you can taste is pepper. Not overly hot but a spicy aftertaste. Wasn’t expecting very much from this so at least I wasn’t overly disappointed. Very glad I only bought a single bottle. I’ve had other jalapeno beers in the past that were decent, but this one is pretty bad.