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

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286 Ratings

rAvg: 2.04
pDev: 39.71%
Reviews: 169
Hads: 117

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Chili Beer Co.

Arizona, United States

Style | ABV
Chile Beer | 4.20% ABV

Availability: Year-round. bottle (169).

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Reviews by jniagar1:

jniagar1

Pennsylvania

2.75/5 rDev +34.8%

11-07-2012 02:08:56 | More by jniagar1

More User Reviews:

goblin7704

Ohio

1/5 rDev -51%

06-11-2013 16:57:52 | More by goblin7704

Minnesota

2.84/5 rDev +39.2%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2.5

I asked for chili beers and alelover called my bluff - well played Joel... well played.

Pours like something you shouldn't drink. Sort of an orange/yellow color that sits in the glass like apple juice.

Little to no heat on the schnoz... soft wheat and pils notes... some bready yeast and a suggestion of heat.

Honestly... not as atrocious as I expected. It's a flat pilsner with a chili pepper zing on the finish. It might make for a decent spicy beer if they didn't put a whole fucking pepper in the bottle. Why would you do that? It's cute, but it completely destroys the feel of the beer.

Boring. Spicy.

It's boring and spicy.

Serving type: bottle

06-07-2013 03:19:59 | More by yamar68

czillmer

Virginia

1/5 rDev -51%

06-05-2013 19:37:50 | More by czillmer

Brenden

Ohio

1.29/5 rDev -36.8%
look: 1.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1 | overall: 1.25

Are you kidding? I've lost dozens of reviews at random. I dread returning to this beer.

Pale, flat, and limp, this is about the weakest-looking beer you'll find. Sitting on the bottom is a pepper that doesn't look especially appealing. There's barely any head, just a bit of wisp and about 3 little spots on the glass.
It smells like as lame as any weak macro lager you'll see out there. There's little to it other than a faint whiff of something vegetal and something like light malts.
It tastes worse. It's just such a bad beer to begin with, then the pepper adds flavorless heat. The destruction of the bowels is not worth it, and it's every bit as bad as I remember. I know it's super hipster to rip on this beer, but it's so well-deserved. No beer is 0, and 1 on this site is a 0, so...
It feels as weak as water. Only imagine that someone put a little oil in water and gave it to you to drink. Slick water. I can't imagine a worse feel. Couldn't it be a little crisp, at least?

Thank God I didn't have to buy another fricking bottle of this, since apparently someone actually drinks it.

Serving type: bottle

06-02-2013 00:48:59 | More by Brenden

williahd

Virginia

2.25/5 rDev +10.3%

06-01-2013 11:41:01 | More by williahd

InfernoBoss

California

1/5 rDev -51%

05-22-2013 23:24:30 | More by InfernoBoss

MooSully

Kansas

2.61/5 rDev +27.9%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.25

The chili pepper in the beer was a unexpected surprise. But outside of the chili pepper heat this beer is meh. Generic lager with pepper in it. The pepper is all in the back end of it so its not too hot too drink. Tried it once wouldn't get it again.

Serving type: bottle

05-20-2013 04:15:17 | More by MooSully

Photekut

Azerbaijan

2/5 rDev -2%

05-19-2013 18:51:13 | More by Photekut

athesing10

Ohio

2/5 rDev -2%

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

Bill235

Ohio

2.25/5 rDev +10.3%

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

cadaugherty

Illinois

1.5/5 rDev -26.5%

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

tommyguz

Pennsylvania

1/5 rDev -51%

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

alelover

Michigan

1.75/5 rDev -14.2%

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

teraflx

Arizona

2/5 rDev -2%

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

OregonGrown7

Nebraska

2/5 rDev -2%

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

DoctorQ9

California

2.05/5 rDev +0.5%
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