Cave Creek Chili Beer

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

The aroma is lovely chili - not very beer like, but nice. The color is yellow and it has no head. The flavor is totally dominated by chili. This is not a beer I’ll drink a lot of, but it is still a nice beer.

I am rating this as I drink so you all can get the full effect of my experience. Mmmmm...aroma of spicy skunk piss. On the the first sip...well, it tastes like ass, but it isn’t as hot as I would have thought. I would like this spiciness if the beer tasted anywhere close to drinkable, but it’s shit so down the drain it goes.

Don’t know what I can say about this flame-throwing brew that hasn’t been said. Overwhelming pepper taste. Burns throughout. Was worried there would be a heavy price to pay later.

I believe Dogbricks thoughts sum up teh whole of my experience with this beer. While I have yet to try it with Tacos, a seemingly natural pairing, I don’t even have the desire to try it again to find out. "Tastes like burning" is an understatement, I’m not sure if my drain will ever be the same!

Update: This beer was #1000 but 2 beers that I tried over 2 years ago were removed from the database suddenly. However this beer will always be #1000 in my heart(burn)!.

There are some things you knowingly do even though the outcome is going to be bad. Like looking at a solar eclipse, or pressing that button that has a sign that reads "DO NOT PRESS - REALLY!". This is one of those times. I think it is human nature is to be curious, and history shows us that this curious nature can lead to some pretty interesting and/or awful things happening. No matter how many people say "this beer really is that awful, DON’T TRY IT" I knew I would eventually. I won’t try to dissuade other people from trying it because frankly it would only add to the mystique. Let me just say you had ample warning, as did I. What can be said about this vile, repugnant, heinous, repellant, despicable, horrid, revolting, wretched excuse for a beer that hasn’t been already? Garbage-can water? Check. Fried skunk? Check. How about this then: Bottled swamp-ass. I would rather lick the floor of a New Jersey rest stop bathroom than willingly try this again. I am afraid it may have given me trench mouth. First of all, who would want to dump that chili pepper down the drain without fearing that it would dent the blades on the garbage disposal. And assuming it made it beyond the disposal and into the sewers, humanity would be in constant danger of some kind of C.H.U.D. creature spawning from the chili pepper pod and rampaging through the city. I really tried to keep that damn chili pepper from slipping out of the bottle and into the glass but I was thwarted. That thing has a mind of its own! On to the "beer". Dark golden color with no head or lacing. The aroma is not unlike a dock worker’s sweat-rag after an all-night bender. The flavor is how I imagine a drunk diabetic’s piss would taste. Calling this swill is an insult to swill beers. Some beers taste bad because of poor quality, some for lack of trying. This beer however, almost seems to relish its accomplishment of tasting so bad. The finish immediately reminded me of the famous Ralph Wiggum quote: "Tastes like burning!". I will never let this affront to all that is good with beer befoul my lips again. I’ll probably get the shakes just passing it by in the store as it is. Never let it be said I did not earn that #1000.

It’s a great novelty beer, especially for a hot-head like me who thrives on hot foods. Kudus to the Cave Creek folk for this effort. I enjoy it as a good drink, if not a good beer.

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Yeah, it’s time to try the Cave Creek. Typical pour, straw-colored body with a thin off-white head that disappeared. There is a pepper floating in the glass. Aroma is a strange mix of skunk and canned/bottled pepper (with preservatives, of course). Flavor is...blech...ugh...ack...ok, I’m used to it. Basically it’s a really bland, metallic, crappy macrolager with a freaking pepper floating in it. It’s spicy- I imagine some people would need a glass of water to serve as a chaser. The "preservative" flavor doesn’t mix well with the beer. Not sure I want to finish this.

If you’re going to try it, just chug it. You can’t feel the burn until after your first drink. The first drink tastes like very mild pepper. Every drink after that is masked by the heat.