Cream Ale - Hatch Chiles
Fate Brewing Company (AZ) in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey Regular|
Score
6.68
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at Fate - Scottsdale, pours a clear pale yellow with a small white head. Aroma is subdued, with barely a trace of chilis — just crisp biscuity malt. Flavour really doesn't express any of the chilis, with a crisp biscuity malt base and nothing much else. There's really not much to this. Boring and weak but clean enough.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Gold color with green chile aroma. Taste is straight green chile pepper. Not burning since those peppers are mild but full of flavor.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
On tap at Phoenix Ale Brewery. Golden with a small white head. On the sweey side with malt, vegetables and some chili. Thin and boring.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Straw colour. Grassy aroma with pepper notes. Very light palate, punctuated by a prominent vegetal chile, with grainy cream ale underneath. Low bitterness. The funny thing about this beer is that a hatch cream ale will never be something I would actually want to drink - it's a bland base beer and not the best chile for making beer. But. This is a solid cream ale and the chile is nicely balanced. It's a lousy concept that just happens to be very well-executed.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Tap. Pours clear golden, small white head, good lacing. Aroma is indeed huge chili, perhaps a bit of honey underneath. Flavor is light sweet, pepper but just a touch of heat, floral notes. Light plus body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Draft at the source. Slightly hazy yellow color, thick white head with good retention and solid lacing. Aroma of burning straw, smoking pepper. Taste is charred pepper skin and burning hay, decent hay. Delicious.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at Fate South, 12/28/15.
Clear, bright golden body shows good carbonation and a small, white, moderately-well-retained head.
HUGE chile nose is delightfully authentic, tasteful and well-supported by the fresh house yeast and dry, but apparent malt backing. Smells exactly like freshly roasted green hatch chiles and is powerfully sniffable.
Flavor follows, showing little/no heat, as is the case with these chiles. Fleshy, gently roasted pepper character is backed by a zesty, mostly tight carbonation and crisp, grainy malt texture, with appropriate wateriness allowing high drinkability and no flaw or alcohol. Great attenuation, as with all of their beers and good extraction/mashing leading to a malty, enjoyably soft texture.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured up at Flanny’s Arizona on Tap Festival with a crystal clear gold body that supports a tall nearly bright white head. The mild aroma offers up sweet sugary malts and then just a faint chili note. The taste is straight up bright, light, crisp, fresh chili pepper meat and initially only a moderate degree of chili pepper heat. The heat grows to midway and then evens out into the finish where faint malt sweetness and a creamed corn sensation struggle to be heard over the chili. This has delicious forward chili pepper goodness where there’s enough heat to deepen the experience but not burn everything it touches. If you’re interested in fresh chili pepper presented with little beer in the way then this is for you. Fun beer.