Cave Creek Chili Beer

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

Total novelty beer. Smells bad, tastes bad, it’s just plain bad. I’d rather take my chances by drinking the water from a Mexican puddle then drink this again.

Got via trade from cbkschubert (thanks!)-Lighter than Bud color-the chili taste was not heavy. Didn’t overpower, but didn’t really come through. Heavy carbonation and no real taste round out this novelty beer. Glad I tried it; wouldn’t buy it.

This is one extraordinarily interesting beer. Although I love spicy food, I’m not normally into spicy beverages. The aroma of chili pepper is actually quite nice, without being overwhelming. The flavor, however, is quite in-your-face at first, with very pronounced pepper hotness. After the taste buds recover from the initial shock, this beer really isn’t too bad for what it is. Now, if you’re the type of person who sees a chili pepper floating in your beer but want it to taste like an imperial stout, you’re going to be disappointed. So, as chili beers go, I’d have to say this is one of the best.

Pours yellow with a minor head. The taste is rather skunky with a salty, pepper quality. Has a fair amount of heat. Not very good, I don’t understand why they keep making it.

Crazy Ed’s pours a healthy golden copper, but with no lacing and no head retention. There’s a freshly delivered jalapeno looking up at me from the glass, and I smell a cheap Taco Bell hot sauce aroma. I finally sip it. There’s no beer. It’s just jalepeno pepper juice. From the beginning. Into the finish. Nothing else. At all. Ever. And the pepper itself? It tasted like wax.

Love the idea but the taste is not so great. The green chile in the bottle is nice looking but the beer tastes like fermented chile. I ate the chile it was actually spicy, the chile tasted better than the beer.

Definitely...different. I didn’t expect it to be quite so hot! I managed 3 or 4 gulps but had to dump the rest. It was like eating a bunch of peppers. It was cool in a way, but not good in another way.

It’s a golden beer without any head, and the aroma is chilli and a bit of apple. The flavour has very brief apple notes and then the chilli cuts like the sun, when the curtains is pulled from the window on a day with a migraine, and suddenly it seems that eating Indian food is like eating baby food. YUCK - I love chilli, but I hope it will stay out of my beer in the future!!!