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

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rAvg: 2.05
pDev: 39.51%
Reviews: 167
Hads: 114

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Chili Beer Co.

Arizona, United States

Style | ABV
Chile Beer | 4.20% ABV

Availability: Year-round. bottle (167).

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Reviews by tewaris:

tewaris

Minnesota

3/5 rDev +46.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

There's an actual chili in there! Nice! Best by 01/12/13. Poured into an equally goofy Family Guy pint.

Pours like a macro lager: pale and clear with some bubbles that leave FAST. Aroma is dominated by the chili and this one will be hot it seems.

Tastes like a macro: no hops at all and a burp here and there that's full of yuck. And then there's the heat. I was expecting the chili to be total gimmick and it could very well be but this beer (?) overall does deliver some heat. I can feel my lips sting and it feels good. And a good chili flavor too, so that's bonus. I am weird.

Carbonation is low and the mouthfeel is watery but whatever. I am not entirely disappointed and somewhat amused. Glad I tried it. Seemed a little costly at 11+ bucks for a 6 pack, and even costlier as a single but there certainly could be situations where I wouldn't say no to it.

PS: In a parallel universe they're using chili instead of hops for beer and this one is coveted.

PPS: Sometimes I wish, and more so lately, that awarding points was not necessary.

3, 3, 3, 3, 3

Serving type: bottle

05-02-2012 07:53:58 | More by tewaris

More User Reviews:

InfernoBoss

California

1/5 rDev -51.2%

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

MooSully

Kansas

2.61/5 rDev +27.3%
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 -2.4%

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

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