Original C Cave Creek Chili Beer - Cerveza Con Chili - Chili Beer Co.

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rAvg: 2.05
pDev: 39.51%
Reviews: 166
Hads: 112

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Brewed by:
Chili Beer Co.

Arizona, United States

Style | ABV
Chile Beer | 4.20% ABV

Availability: Year-round. bottle (166).

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Reviews by bamojr:

bamojr

Virginia

2.98/5 rDev +45.4%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

Pours light golden with a head that disappeared faster then I could pour the beer. This smells mostly like chili and I couldn't get many more smells out of it. The chili really comes through in the flavor as well and gives this beer a very spicy and unique flavor. I feel that the chili flavor does detract from the other flavors that could be in the beer and just makes this kind of a gimmick. I know that alot of people have bad things to day about this beer, but I think it is kind of a cool idea. The chili is a bit overpowering and that is really my only complaint. I would like to see this done where the chili just enhances the flavors in the beer, and I think that would make for a cool brew.

Serving type: bottle

06-21-2011 06:30:09 | More by bamojr

More User Reviews:

athesing10

Ohio

2/5 rDev -2.4%

05-17-2013 14:19:57 | More by athesing10

Bill235

Ohio

2.25/5 rDev +9.8%

05-13-2013 11:26:24 | More by Bill235

cadaugherty

Illinois

1.5/5 rDev -26.8%

05-08-2013 00:13:55 | More by cadaugherty

tommyguz

Pennsylvania

1/5 rDev -51.2%

05-07-2013 14:42:15 | More by tommyguz

alelover

Michigan

1.75/5 rDev -14.6%

05-01-2013 03:40:50 | More by alelover

teraflx

Arizona

2/5 rDev -2.4%

04-19-2013 21:10:32 | More by teraflx

OregonGrown7

Nebraska

2/5 rDev -2.4%

04-05-2013 20:36:15 | More by OregonGrown7

DoctorQ9

California

2.05/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 1 | overall: 2.5

Ed Chileen is retired now, and his beer is contract-brewed in Tecate, Mexico. What they basically do is take a very average Mexican lager and squirt some pepper oil into the bottle. Seriously -- the quality control is so shoddy that I could not find a six-pack of Chili beer at BevMo where every bottle had a pepper in it! Yet even the pepperless bottles had the same chili taste.

If you want to experience the brew that Ed had originally conceived, then take any good, solid lager and pour it into a glass with 1/4 teaspoon of chili pepper oil mixed in. You will have a far better "chili beer" than this crap.

**UPDATE** I found a great substitute. Take cheap Mexican beer (I use Indio) and add 1 tablespoon of Italian Pepperoncini "juice" (drained from a jar of pepperoncini peppers).

Serving type: bottle

03-31-2013 23:04:35 | More by DoctorQ9