Years ago, when I was a wee lad, I can remeber our dad buying a Mexican beer that had a pepper floating in it. I also remeber my dad jumping around and screaming after his first sip, but after he finished the bottle (40 oz.) he was quite subdued. For the life of me I’ve never been able to find that beer again, and believe me, I’ve searched for it. It was an obscure brand that propbably is not even made anymore, remeber this was 20+ years ago.
But anyways, for some reason this morning I caught myself thinking about that beer again and wondering if I could find anything like it. I’ve got an entire office full of furniture to put together tomorrow and chile beer would be the icing on the cake for such a long laborious day.
So I started out my day today searching for “chile beer” online, trying to find a place where I could buy such beer, either online or locally. Came up with nada, although I did find a plethora of sites that offer reviews of such beers. Beer Advocate has an entire page dedicated to Chile Beer.
If anyone knows of a place that I can get chile beer in NYC, please let me know. There should be a gourmet beer store somewhere in this city, but I have not yet found it. Or any place where I can order it online.
I think I’m going to do some experimenting this weekend and try creating a variety of chile vodka’s – maybe even whiskeys.
9 responses to “Chile Beer”
Nick,
I don’t know of a chile beer on the market, but Cat’s Meow (a pretty reliable source) had an interesting looking recipe in their database: http://brewery.org/brewery/cm3/recs/07_11.html
It’s been a while since I’ve brewed but this doesn’t look too complicated. Anyway, I also might suggest you just go to your local beverage supplier and ask if he has anything in his catalog. Mine will often just look up things for me when I’m after something for a recipe.
-Jennifer
p.s. Thanks for stopping by my site. I posted a question back to you there if you have the time to take another look.
Thanks for the tip – But from what I’ve found here in NYC, most liqour stores sell only hard alchol and look at me cross eyed when I asked them for chile beer. But I’ve got some folks here in the city pounding the pavement for me, so we’ll see how it turns out soon
chile whiskey would be so awesome!
Our Woodman’s grocery store in Madison, WI has not 1, but 2 different chile beers to choose from. I did not them at all, much to my dismay.
Sorry, I have no tip for you for NYC.
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Your looking for Cave Creek Chili Beer.. Can’t find any sites that sell it but I hope this helps.
In Massapequa, NY they have cave creek chili beer at Big Daddys restaurant….. Thats the only place I have ever seen it
Hi
Very good job
I love chile´s beer cans
Renato Mauge
I had somewhat similar debute of drinking beer. I remember, I was 3 months younger the legal age of drinking when I got the first sip 😛