Sherbrooke Aaiieeeeeeeeee Caramba! - Thai Green Chili
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Chile Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.24 | pDev: 2.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 19, 2009
- Added:
- Dec 03, 2008
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.32/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.32/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
An interesting conceit - I'm curious to know what effect a single uncut chili pepper could have being immersed in a bottle of lager - but I guess that's the whole point.
The label is a somewhat nonsensical clash of cultures - Mexican stereotypes with a Thai pepper? Perhaps this is just a reuse from its Serrano pepper cousin, but that doesn't forgive the bad pun...
This beer pours a slightly hazy, light golden hue, with 2 fingers of soapy white head. The Thai chili held on in the neck of the bottle for the whole pour, until doing a belly flop into the glass. It smells quite strongly of vegetal green chili oil, and not much else. The taste is green chili oil, and grainy malt, and it's hard to discern any hop characteristics under the chili essence. The capsicum burn is stronger than I expected, the carbonation is moderate, and it finishes dry, the chili heat lingering. This went quite well with BBQ burgers, the food offsetting the chili flavours, but the unbalanced edge in this beer would preclude me wanting to drink more than one of them on their own.
Apr 19, 2009The label is a somewhat nonsensical clash of cultures - Mexican stereotypes with a Thai pepper? Perhaps this is just a reuse from its Serrano pepper cousin, but that doesn't forgive the bad pun...
This beer pours a slightly hazy, light golden hue, with 2 fingers of soapy white head. The Thai chili held on in the neck of the bottle for the whole pour, until doing a belly flop into the glass. It smells quite strongly of vegetal green chili oil, and not much else. The taste is green chili oil, and grainy malt, and it's hard to discern any hop characteristics under the chili essence. The capsicum burn is stronger than I expected, the carbonation is moderate, and it finishes dry, the chili heat lingering. This went quite well with BBQ burgers, the food offsetting the chili flavours, but the unbalanced edge in this beer would preclude me wanting to drink more than one of them on their own.
Reviewed by IronDjinn from Canada (AB)
3.15/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.15/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Another round of the Aaiieee Caramba!, this time with a small yet deadly looking Thai green chili floating at the top of the bottle. Small, but I know they pack a punch. I suppose these chili beers from Sherbrooke and Alley Kat can be listed more under the paradigm of a rotating limited edition, as it seems they're going to keep putting them out, but with a different type of chili each time. As the base is always Charlie Flint's Original lager, what alters the beer itself is the type of chili used, making this a bit of a nightmare for a consistent listing of the releases, but oh well, here we go again for round two....
Clear golden malty in appearance, the head starts to rise right in the bottle the moment the cap is removed. Head itself after the pour only lasts a minute. Oh yeah, and the small floating Thai green chili pepper, can't miss that one.
There definitely a vegetable heat emanating in the aroma, a bit of smoke as well. Some bready malt in the background.
Spice and some heat up front in the flavour from the chili, but then it fades back while a balancing wet biscuity malt comes forth and carries things until things warm up once again on the finish, although not too intense at first. Starts to heat up more as you get closer to the bottom of the glass. I'm more concerned about getting blind-sided by a heat bomb AFTER I've finished this and walked away...
Mouthfeel is light with a bit of carbonation body, carries the heat of the pepper well enough without interfering.
Well, it passes my first test of an okay chili beer, and that it is more palatable than Crazy Ed's Cave Creek. This one's only so-so, I'd have to say I enjoyed the serrano one better so far.
Dec 03, 2008Clear golden malty in appearance, the head starts to rise right in the bottle the moment the cap is removed. Head itself after the pour only lasts a minute. Oh yeah, and the small floating Thai green chili pepper, can't miss that one.
There definitely a vegetable heat emanating in the aroma, a bit of smoke as well. Some bready malt in the background.
Spice and some heat up front in the flavour from the chili, but then it fades back while a balancing wet biscuity malt comes forth and carries things until things warm up once again on the finish, although not too intense at first. Starts to heat up more as you get closer to the bottom of the glass. I'm more concerned about getting blind-sided by a heat bomb AFTER I've finished this and walked away...
Mouthfeel is light with a bit of carbonation body, carries the heat of the pepper well enough without interfering.
Well, it passes my first test of an okay chili beer, and that it is more palatable than Crazy Ed's Cave Creek. This one's only so-so, I'd have to say I enjoyed the serrano one better so far.
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