Outback Chilli Beer

Brewed by Outback Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Woodpark, NSW, Australia

Chilli ??? Where ??? I make my own chilli beer which absolutely craps on this. I taste nothing but capiscum in a tepid so-called wheat beer base.

I love chili, I really, really do. I love beer, I really, really, really do. I also like curry, but not with a creme brulee topping. I enjoy creme brulee, but not with sate sauce instead of caramel. Point is? Clearly. This does not work. You can detect the chili aroma in this thin orangey slop, but the taste is just not there. The flavour is pretty much like sucking on a rusty nail (not the cocktail) and drinking water at the same time. Outback are a commercial homebrew joint, with all the faults that most of my old homebrew mates used to commit. Australia, I don't know if we can proudly say that we have a Cave Creek chili beer, but at least we can say that this one is up the creek without a paddle.

Absolute muck. Dull hazy orange appearance, with zero head, fizzy mouthfeel, sweet, acidic, but in a really rank way. Really thin mouthfeel, and hardly any chilli flavour detected. Really offensive POR and rusted tin flavour. Geez this is bad.

The really weird dud(e) who runs this brewery gave me some of this muck at a tasting in Amatos in Leichhardt. It sux bad. There is not even much chilli and the beer, like all his others (I asked him straight up), is based on malt extract syrup so it tastes like prehopped can kit homebrew. Luckily there was also some Duvel at the tasting and I was able to wash the "flavour" of this away with something decent. This beer is described sufficiently by: "poo".

i've really been punishing myself lately trying to find new beers to taste. this has a raw sugar aroma, murky orange colour. the chilli is barely noticeable although you can feel a little on your lips. there is something very seriously wrong here. it tastes like they used a bread yeast or something. if i was trying to say anything vaguely positive i would say that there is a hint of apple there, not that it's nice or interesting in any way

my first chilli beer, and i can report that i don't hate the concept. nice how the chilli contributes some bitterness of its own. although it's not very hot here at all, it does taste like fresh chillis are in it. the downside is the rest of the beer - revolting, cloudy orange, POR flavoured kit beer. we might have a real homegrown aussie competitor to florisgaarden chocolat here.