Outback Chilli Beer

(Bottle 33 cl) Clear amber golden with a creamy, off-white head. Aroma of chili and metal. Light in body, notes of sweet caramel and capsicum rather than chili. This is not burning hot as other chili beers I’ve had, just lightly spicy. No real bitterness. A very mild chili beer. 030208

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.

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

In the bottle from the sampler pack from David Jones. Reddish amber with no head at all. Big carbonation bubbles. Slight green chili aroma if you use your imagination. Same crappy malty underfermented palate as all the Outback beers, but this one has a subtle mild pepper burn on the back of the tongue at the residual finish. For a chili beer, it is not painful. For a beer, it sucks like all the other Outback Brewery beers.

Keep seeming to get butterscotch on the nose from most of these beers. Pours darker than expected, cherry amber body with same head. Chilli is in there but not helping out much.

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.

Lame Australian chilli beer that promises more than it delivers. Caramel colour, no head. Spritzy nose with some unusual ginger characters and winey notes. Some fruit on the tongue before a mild chilli "burn" in the finish. In fact, the chilli is ridiculously restrained. It’s not so much a flavour as a sensation. (Bottle)

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.