Cave Creek Chili Beer

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

12oz bottle poured into a Duvel glass. Appearance is normal, slightly foggy yellow fizzy lager color with a fat green chili floating in the middle of the glass. Chili boosts the appearance by one point. Aroma is jalapeno peppers, processed nacho cheese, and an off-putting heavy veggie smell. Taste at first like a Bud or Miller but then the finish smacks you with the hot, spicy pepper in the back of your throat. Not vomit-inducing but it was rough trying to drink more than a couple ounces.

Here is the most I can remember of my tasting of this beer with a few friends of mine: Jason - Is this the chili beer you liked that you were telling me about? Darren - No. But I tried that one though. It was the one I didn’t like. It’s better than I remember it though. J - It’s not bad once you get to the aftertaste and the pepper comes out. D - Yeah, once you get over that piss lager flavor. J - I kind of like it. It’s hot though. Holy crap it gets hot! . .Hey, you guys have to try this. Jordan - Hmm. that’s interesting J - Damn. I need some tums Steve. Whoa. Fuck man, I mean - Fuck! That shit isn’t right. Jason - Tums anyone? S - Yeah, that’s dirty almost. It’s just weird. I mean, it’s not beer. Jor - Every sip is something different. It’s fascinating. This is wild. J - Deanna, do you want to dry this? Deanna - NO. S - It’s like my mouth is mad at me. I feel like I’ve been sucking on fireballs. I guess I would drink this with some chips and salsa. J - Ha! Everyone - What? J - It’s got a zero on rate beer. Jor - Is it because it’s new or something? J - No, It has 437 reviews. Hold on. I’ve read about this beer before... Yep it’s on the top fifty worst beer list. This is the 46th worst beer in the world. S - It’s like I loved a girl that wasn’t clean. J - Tums? After we finished the beer, we went on to another chili beer, which as it turned out we actually liked much less, and we actually started to miss the intense burn of the Cave Creek. Darren said, "It’s like a little annoying friend that you end up missing when he goes away." We were pretty much universally amazed and repulsed at the same time by this beer. The lager character was like a crappy corona, but the chili flavor was enticing, albeit painfully so. Don’t get me wrong. this isn’t a great beer, but it is so intensely fascinating of a drinking experience, it is well worth a try.

Clear 12oz bottle, poured Ice Cold (as suggested). Clear golden like any pale lager. No head. Smells like the salsa from a cheap Mexican Restaurant. Tastes Like a Pale Lager with a kick. HOLY SHIT, THIS SHIT IS HOT!@@@@!!@ . I think its a lager, but i feel like i just drank a bottle of tobasco, then gargled a beer. Oh yeah, there is a pepper floating in it. Lots of heat.

Copying from my tasting notes. Bottle. Wow, this one was bad. I mean, im a fan of spicy things but this was terrible. I dont know how they got away with even selling this crap. Made me sick.

This was not beer. It was jalapeno pickel brine with alcohol. Put a jalapeno in a blender with a bud, and you have a chilli beer. Unique, but unique does not necessarily entice someone to repeat the experience.

Bottle at Chris_o’s Magic Night. Gold, no head. Way too much chili and completely undrinkable.

I didn’t buy this beer expecting it to be good, only because there was a chili pepper in the bottle. What I wasn’t expecting was this beer to taste as bad as it did. I will give this beer points for originality though...

A Mes rate: Bottle at the Magic_dave6 shindig at Chris O’s.
Well, this was easy to enter... I didn’t have to change any numbers. My first 0.5 and if I could score it lower I would. It burned like food that people with no taste buds eat. It smelled seriously rotten. It was a horrible colour with what Duff described as "sea monkies" (and they were) for sediment. And I needed a glass of water, pretty much a full glass, to calm my mouth down after just one sip. Trust me I love spicy food and eat hot Indian food regularly. It’s the devil’s urine in a glass and it’s utter shite.

Oh yeah, I dedicate this rating to noelcb :)