Fitgers Wildfire Ale

Brewed by Fitgers Brewhouse
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Duluth, Minnesota USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Tap at Fitger’s on Nov. 17, 2011. Big hot pepper nose - nice. Clear reddish pour. Taste - aaaaahhhhhh, holy goddamn is this hot! Undrinkable. But interesting.

Pours a clear copper red with almost no head. Smells of tobasco sauce and pepper. Flavor is intense. First hops and then tobassco and pepper where it actually burns your throat. The spice is too much to get any other flavors out of it. Body is light with medium carbonation.

On draught at the brewpub in downtown Duluth, Minnesota. Pours a semi-clear dark copper brew with a fast dissolving off-white head. Aroma of mostly chemical hot peppers that just simply over-powered any other scents. Maybe some dried dill pickles, but all pepper. Taste is just plain chemically spicy hot. Finish is harsh as sin. Spicy hot going in and spicy hot going out. Tender-beer, I mean tender-bar, I mean Bartender! Get me some whole milk! If this Cave Creek Chili Beer wanna-be beer is a toned down version, I doubt I could even drink it.

This was a hard beer to rate. Pours an amber-brown, with little head. No lacing. Aroma like freshly picked chile peppers, kinda sweet and juicy. Taste - Wow! Talk about hot. It damn near killed a friend of mine. Its all about the hot peppers, folks. Fitger’s email about the beer says they used 100 pounds of 10 different varieties. I believe it. I think all 100 pounds may have been in my glass. Hot taste. Hot mouthfeel. Hot aftertaste that lasts about 15 minutes (seriously). Medium body, lightly carbonated. Even the carbonation feels hot. I tried a taster-sample, then tried a pint. If you like a hot chile beer - this one is phenomenal. If you don’t - skip this one, or better yet, hide from it. I enjoyed my pint, but there’s no way I would drink two in a single sitting. I suggest you have a glass of ice water nearby. Or two.

Peppers peek out on first pouring the brew, hot, hot, hot!!! Clear amber/crimson color, no head at all... Aroma: ow! Hot, hot, hot!!! 100% peppery! wow, what a mix! Taste: AAAHHH!!!! OWWWW!!! OH, JEEZUS!!! AH, AH, AH, Ah, A?HHHH!!!!@HOLY F*@$!!! SH*%!!! ...take a drink of water...does no good...MY MOUTH IS ON FIRE!!! AGAIN!!! I think I’d prefer this as an ale, actually, with a bit more going on in it, to provide some balance, something else going on to contend with the heat...the HEAT! WHOA< GOD, IT’s STILL ATTACKING MY TONGUE@!!! AAAHHH!!!! I swear to God, I will finish this pint...on this, I swear...OW!!! I really mean it!!! Holy F*^&..pant, pant...wheeze, wheexe...Holy m%th#rF87=ng H#((!! Better than Crazy Ed’s Cave Creek, but still suffers by lacking the body and flavor it would get just by being top fermented with ale yeast, I think, ever humbly... more water, gulp, gulp, cool down, cool down... I loook at the 1/2 pint left, and fear it...what will I do with the rest of the growler? water, water, water...yet temperature still rises... read fantome’s review and hear of the peppers employed to learn of the intensity...Great Vishnu, Almighty Zeus, Most Honored Mohammad, Towering Jupiter, Blessed Buddha...someone save me!!! ...the drinkability is impaired because it can’t be called "average" or anything higher...what can it be compared to? Nothing! and, yet it’s quite good, for what it is, which is nothing like anything else...my lips are ablaze, and I haven’t touched it in 5 minutes...Oh, please, most benificent Odin...Jesus, Buddha, Spongebob...someone...help...someone help...

A brown-red tinged crystal clear golden pour, topped with a thin line of white head. Bouncy fresh and roasted perppar aroma, that is quite delectable. Mellow cheery light roasted musky jalapeno notes. Nice aromas. HOLY S***! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! You get a tiny hint of musky pepper, then a little dusty malt, then BURNING! over powers everything! Dear god. Palate is fire. Such a deceiving beer. Starts all smooth, watery and a little crisp, then it just burns like a mofo, especially in the throat. This would be a great trick beer. "Thirsty man?" "Sure, I could really go for a refreshing cold one right now." I now have ulcers and acid reflux and I’m sweating. I give this a three for flavor: 1 for the actual pepper flavor, 1 for the light malt, and 1 for the burning. A true wildfire. My ears are now flaming. And this is scaled back?!?! The bartender said it was good for cooking, but what the hell else is it good for. I don’t like pepper beers, that’s why the flavor is a 3. But, overall as a Pepper beer, this is pretty impressive. It doesn’t have that sickening half rotten pepper flavor.

I actually really liked this. Fresh peppers on the nose with a nice aggressive hot pepper flavor. Had it on its own at a beerfest, but can imagine that it would be wonderful with food especially a bleu cheese burger.

Lokks nice as adark amber brew and I like the aroma of peppers but that is where this story ends.One sip and I mean one sip and I was trying to find some water.Really f*cking hot.How does anyone drink this ??How does this qualify as a beer?

Dark amber with no head. Oh my god... the aroma and taste are just like pureed peppers. This is by far the nastiest beer I’ve had in my life. Old Milwaukee Light would be better than this.

Brown/Dark Amber Coloring. No Head. Earthy Aroma. Grassy. Flavor Will Floor You...HOT Pepper Flavoring... They use Jalopeno Peppers as a Main Ingredient in This Beer. I had Two Beers AFTER This One and It Still Took Half an Hour for my Mouth to Cool Down. I Give This one X-tra Points for Originality and Distinctiveness..... But Dear Lord Order a Chaser....Woo Hoo!