Cave Creek Chili Beer

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

Tasted 03/05/2006. Pale gold. No head. Herbal green chilli aroma. Super hot cayenne-style sting in the outh. A good way to open a BJCP study group. There’s a chilli in the bottle but where’s the beer? Great beer for a practical joke but not the best for drinking. Reduced from $7.50 to $1... and I, for one, am not surprised.

Light gold in color with small white head. Chili came in bottle. It was interesting, but seems like a novelty joke. Aroma was the best thing about this beer. Flavor was too extreme for me. I certainly didn’t expect it to be that strong, was thinking it’d just be a hint of chili, which would have been better. Didn’t taste beer, it was more like drinking jalapeño juice. I was happy to chase it with a Busch Light.

Bottle. Yellow thick urin colour. No head. Spicy stingy aroma. Nasty sour chili flavour, burning your whole mouth. Bad bad bad! Just take any pale lager (or shitty brew) and stuff it with hot chili fruits. Bad for your stomach, bad for your tastes buds, bad for the poor beer that was tortured with chili.

It’s hot, and loaded with chili flavor. For what they were trying to do, they nailed it. It wasn’t my cup of teas, way too hot, passed it off to the roomie.

(Bottled, 4.2% ABV) Slightly hazy golden color with no head. The chili pepper in the bottle neck made pouring "interesting" (and couldn’t even get the swollen chili out :). Surprisingly strong and natural chili aroma with faint malty hints. The aroma has ... man, this beer is hot!! The beer is obviously some Sol-style crap, but you sure can taste the chili here. Then again, that’s the only thing you can taste in it. Light-bodied palate with no carbonation, but lots of chili burn. Wouldn’t even think of finishing the bottle (had like five sips of it), but I have to give the brewery credit for honesty: this really is a chili beer! Make sure this is your last rating of the day ;)

Bottle. The only thing cool about this beer is the whole chili in the bottle. Other than that it is one of the most foul substances to ever touch my lips. This is the type of beer that you want to describe using all capital letters and lots of exclamation marks.

Bottle given to me from stegosaurus as he says to me "Ok bro you haven’t really had any Arizon ratings so here you go, you’re probably going to hate me after you drink this". Really nothing to say that the guys below me haven’t already said. It’s a novelty watery macro type beer that tries to hide its failures by putting a pepper in the bottle to make it spicy. Absolute SHITE !!!!

An almost undrinkable novelty. Shouldn’t even be called "beer". I tried this for the first time in the early 90’s and frankly can’t believe it’s still around. It’s no better now than it was then.