I just started drinking a chili beer. This has to be the strangest thing (beer) that I have ever drank.. Who the hell ever thought of something like this?
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It's HOT....
Chili beer? What the hell...
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Ok scratch that.... I just dumped out beer for the first time. I just could NOT drink that crap.
Janx
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I agree with you 100%. Of all the dumb ideas to come out of the homebrew/micro world in the name of creativity, this has to be among the worst. I love hot foods and chili peppers, but when I'm eating that stuff, I want a beer to go with it..a REGULAR beer 
Chili pepper beer is nasty. Cheers
Chili pepper beer is nasty. Cheers
Janx said:I agree with you 100%. Of all the dumb ideas to come out of the homebrew/micro world in the name of creativity, this has to be among the worst. I love hot foods and chili peppers, but when I'm eating that stuff, I want a beer to go with it..a REGULAR beer
Chili pepper beer is nasty. Cheers
Good to see you back here....but you are DEAD WRONG!!!!!
Chili beer is awesome. I've brewed one and I want to do another. We had a really nice one at Wynkoop in Denver--nice mellow chili flavor and no heat. It was a really well done chili beer.
Desert_Sky
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Chili beer IS awesome! I mean I really dont drink more than one or two at one time, but I think one at dinner or just on special occasion is great
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- chili beer is awesome only if brewed correctly. Ive had one or two that were just terrible
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- chili beer is awesome only if brewed correctly. Ive had one or two that were just terrible
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The one I had was a Cave Creeh Chili Beer. It was the worst thing I have ever had.
I just drank a pint of Oatmeal Stout to get the taste out of my mouth.
I just can't get rid of it..
I just drank a pint of Oatmeal Stout to get the taste out of my mouth.
I just can't get rid of it..
Desert_Sky
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didn't BP do a chili beer?
Willy Boner
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That don't sound good.
Chimone said:
He did...and it won a medal at the GABF.
Here are some of his notes on making a good chile beer--relax and drool.
Great stuff here folks:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showpost.php?p=82838&postcount=7
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I have to say I'm not a big fan of spicy foods, but I'm dying to try a chili beer. It just sounds good, so long as the chili doesn't overpower the beer.
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For about 3 hours that was all I could taste. Nothing but a damn chili peper.:cross:talleymonster said:
Ryanh1801
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I had one chili beer, It made me want to gag, never again. I love hot food and chili's but they need to stay out of beer.
The trick (IMHO) is to have a hint of chili. Just as with raspberry wheats, most breweries overdo the chili. If you don't have a local, just put a drop or two of juice from a jar of peppers in a golden.
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I have a cave creek chili beer in the fridge but I'm too drunk to give a fair evaluation of it. So I took a Widmer hefe and dropped a chili with a slice in it. I have to admit it's pretty tasty. But like I said: I'm too drunk to...
brewt00l
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Never had the cave creek but I have had Rogue's Chipolte Ale...very good with some grilled chicken.
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FSR402 said:The one I had was a Cave Creeh Chili Beer. It was the worst thing I have ever had.
I just drank a pint of Oatmeal Stout to get the taste out of my mouth.
I just can't get rid of it..
I used to live in Cave Creek. About 5 years ago they changed their recipe and became the foul thing you tasted. Before that it was a mild cerveza with hints of pepper and agave. Now its like drinking tobasco.
zoebisch01
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Janx said:
Holy crap, Janx! Will you be reviving the Lambic thread? 
Evan!
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I've had one chili beer, unless you count Rogue's "Chipotle" Ale (I put it in quotes because you can't really taste the chipotles at all). I can't remember the name, but it was clear-bottled and had a whole jalapeno in the btl with it. It was like fire water. I drank it, but only because I love hot foods. I wouldn't buy it again, though...if I want hot, I'll eat an habanero. Why waste the barley and hops on it? I would definitely be interesting in something that is less spicy than that one, but more spicy than the Rogue. Something in between!
1fastdoc
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I tried a pepper beer brewed by a friend of mine who used habaneros.
When he told me it was a pepper beer I was thinking black pepper, like the vodka.
I didn't sip and I don't do spicy foods well. I should have clarified what "pepper" meant exactly.
When he told me it was a pepper beer I was thinking black pepper, like the vodka.
I didn't sip and I don't do spicy foods well. I should have clarified what "pepper" meant exactly.
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1fastdoc said:
Ugh, that sounds like a horrible experience. I love hot food, and am certainly a chilihead....but imo there are just some things that I know I wouldn't like. Chili beer is one of them. About the only thing I like chili heat in a beverage is hot chocolate from scratch. Guess I should add, I could probably drink some of a bottle of Chili Beer but that would be it. I don't like the burning throat sensation you get from a spicy beverage.
Dude said:
Sounds like real good advice there. I would think that having a base beer that was pretty malty would help; sweet and heat together works great in cooking.
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That would be the Cave Creek stuff. I did not even see the pepper in there until it fell into my glass. lolEvan! said:
Tenchiro
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I have actually been thinking of making one, not so much to drink mind you but as a base for the chili I love to make. Although Rogue has released on that I have been eyeing for a while as a tester.
gonzoflick
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I liked Rouge's Chili Beer. It didnt taste much like chili while in your mouth but when swallowed gave your throat a nice spicy hot sensation. Very nice
In the Top ten list of beers that I have tasted in my life, there is a fond place for a Chocolate Habenjero Stout, made by a small brewery in Portland Oregon. I can't remember their name right now. I'm guessing that those beers you've tasted that weren't so great, weren't made so great. I was tasting this stuff next to a slew of people that hadn't ever had anything but a miller light in their life, and they ALL loved it!
DesertBrew said:
Ok, that was Cave Creek in the fridge. I had a bottle of it last night and I actually enjoyed it. The night I won this stuff my stomach wasn't right. I recant, I don't think it was too bad. Don't think I'd ever bother making any though.
brewt00l
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Ironically, a friend dropped off a bottle of Rogue Chipolte ale last night...now, someone else start a thread on Dark Lord for me!!!!
wwest
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I really like the combination (pepper & beer, that is). I made one last year - it was more or less, an ESB with a few pounds of steamed jalapenos in the secondary, though I only found a few people who liked it aside from myself. I think it's just something you either love or hate, like berliner weisse or Joe Rogan.
FSR402 said:I just started drinking a chili beer. This has to be the strangest thing (beer) that I have ever drank.. Who the hell ever thought of something like this?
It's HOT....
