Sail & Anchor Chilli Beer

Brewed by Sail & Anchor Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Fremantle, Australia

Back behind the bar for another season, I finally got to try this with a well planned side of wedges and sour cream, at the Queens Hotel in Mt. Lawley. Poured slightly hazy; a burnished copper hue with no head and very little carbonation (unclean glass, lack of body or is it the chillies?). Not much aroma; tangy chilli note with some cardboard and honey. Chillies in the mouth start it off with all guns blazing, err,.. literally. In fact for the first few mouthfuls it was all chillies, like the butt of ripe red chilli bombs, with a light tang and then all acid and heat. I love my chillies so this wasn’t actually that bad. Light in body with the feel of a champagne on the tongue with pepper heating up the lips and all the way down the throat. Half way through lighter fruit and yeasty notes build, but otherwise it remains a fiery little number with those chillies lingering long afterwards. Pass me the bottle of milk?

Warning : Make sure that you hadn’t had just eaten a hot curry before taking this one on. I made that mistake the first time I tried this andit stung me. Besides that, in the future when I tried it I enjoyed it (as I like anything hot n spicy). Yellow with a decent head, light with no evident aroma with a sort of oiled lemon chilli flavour to it. Bonza!

Burn baby burn! When you first taste this beer that is exactly what you get. Light golden colour with a white medium sized head. Not a strong aroma, some chilli and some hops. The flavour of this lager when you get past the chilli has some lemon and some oiliness. I'll call this a donut beer cos it had a hole in the middle!