Cave Creek Chili Beer

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

I bought a 6 pack of this about 10 years ago as gag gifts. I never actually tried it myself until now. This is the worst beer that I have ever had. Like drinking jalepeno juice with a hint of beer. I love hot foods, but not this.

about 3½" jalapeno in my bottle, clear gold color with light fizzy head. The aroma is full of jalapeno, I was amazed by how strong it was. The flavor is HOT with some very strong peppery lingering mouthfeel notes. Very one-dimensional with hot and jalapeno things. Finishes burning, bad. Taste the pepper: FUCK!!! that’s the worst part of this thing. no thanks, but probably good for cooking.

I couldn’t make out any other flavours but jalapeno in this. The chilli in the bottle was about 5 inches long, so perhaps this added to the heat, but I have no idea as to the quality of the underlying beer. Apart from that I enjoyed it in a masochistic way. Rating it becomes fairly meaningless, great aroma of jalepeno. great taste of jalepeno!

Okay, if you don’t like peppers, *don’t* buy this beer. Don’t rate it, don’t try it, just leave it alone. Now that we’ve gotten past that, this isn’t a bad beer. The extremely low carbonation and pale piss color scared me off a little, but the aroma’s actually not that bad. The chili flavor overpowers all the subtle flavors of the beer, of course, but it’s not the burn that other raters have given it. If habenero isn’t a stranger to your lexicon, or your tongue, you shouldn’t have any trouble getting this down. My advice is to drink straight from the bottle, rather than from a glass, because this is a beer you don’t really want to let breathe. Take big gulps, not small sips, and enjoy. Try it with chips and salsa.

It’s funny. Everywhere I go, I see this beer available. Even funnier. I am the only person I know that ever bought this. A six pack. Drank one. Very bad. Told my friends it was good,and they drank it, now I don’t have any friends. The burn is real. Very real.

Bottle: This can only sell as a gag gift. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to punish themselves with this brutal concoction.

Bottle. Holy hell, what kinda messed up acid trip was Crazy Ed on? No head on a yellow body. The nose is bad-pepper and bad beer. The first swallow hit my stomach like hot lead. It made my lips burn for 10 minutes. What the hell? Beer should help, not hurt. Bad, bad, bad.

IT BURNS. DEAR GOD IT BURNS. Bottle pours a deep yellow with no head. aroma should have scared me off, but as i’ve stated before i am a bit of a beer masochist. smells like a freshly opened can of pickled jalapenos. taste is HORRID. the taste is actually worse than i could imagine. leaves a burning painful finish. this is not a beer it is a biological weapon.