Calapooia Chili Beer

Brewed by Calapooia Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Albany, Oregon USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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on tap-pours a thin white head and yellow/gold color. Aroma is chili. Taste is mild burning chili with staying power, medium malt. Mild carbonation. Interesting.

UPDATED: APR 8, 2007 Draft at portland Spring beer and wine fest. This beer poured an amber copper color with 1/2 a finger white head. Good aroma of malt and fresh peppers. The flavor starts off malty and then you get the green pepper flavor. The hops are barely noticeable. Tastes exactly like green peppers though. Spice builds up after awhile, not overwhelming but pretty strong. Wish this had more complexity or some other kind of peppers other than the green kind. I did not like this beer but it seems good for what it is supposed to be. It tastes just like green hot peppers.

On tap at the KLCC brew fest 07. An interesting chili beer, interesting because it was stronger then most chili beers, but had more flavor of those non-spicy green peppers. There wasn’t much heat up front, it just grew in the finish, light smoked flavors grew, but never really developed fully. This beer tasted like a good starting point, but they need to give it more character or maybe change the pepper blend a bit, just tasted to much like chomping on those big green peppers.

Overwhelming spicey chili pepper nose, smokey, gold with no head, soooooo sicey, wow, smokey flavor, warms the the whole body, this beer is seriously spicey and tastes like jalapenos, interesting