Siren Craft Brew 5 - Alarm

5 - Alarm

 

Siren Craft Brew in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Collab with: Hoppin' Frog Brewery
  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Special Out of Production
Score
6.60
ABV: 7.4% IBU: 30 Ticks: 61
Hoppin' Frog brewmaster Fred Karm has won multiple awards for his chilli cooking, and the Hoppin’ Frog Tasting Room has been voted one of the best in the US for its food, so we decided to collaborate on a chilli beer with a chilli con carne cook-off while we brewed it! Caramel sweetness from the malt balances the smoky heat in this one-off celebration of the glorious chilli pepper.
 

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7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

330 ml. bottle. BBF 28.07.17. Dark ruby amber, creamy disappearing tanned head. Nose is herbal sticky sweet malts, herbal pine resin syrup in the back, sugar & dark bread syrup. Taste is mellow smoked chili, smoked paprika but it is messy with a metallic note following it, metallic herbal, black bread syrup base, there is a strange malty herbal character, chili is passable, weird with smoked paprika. Overall, too metallic, strangely stick malty, chili isn’t the best. Body is the same, it passes but could have been more for sure. Better than a few puzzling chili beers for sure.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Feb 2017 at 15:25


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Blackfriars, Glasgow. Weirdly this is not the first chilli beer I’ve had tonight, so let’s give this little puppy a go. Reddish brown with very little visible carbonation or head. At first the aroma is jarring - certainly not what I was expecting - but it settles into meaty mild chilli pepper, malty notes and stone fruit. The taste isn’t hot, it’s more sweet and gently warming. The balance is well-judged, although you feel the heat on the tongue in the long finish. Strawberry and guajillo in the aftertaste. Extremely well made.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jan 2017 at 12:47


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

How: Bottle.
Where: NK bar, Stockholm.
Appearance: Amber colour with an off-white head.
Aroma: Fruit, caramel, chili, spices.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Chili, spices, malt.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2017 at 12:56


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle 330ml @ home
Pours hazy reddish brown with a small off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, smoke and a touch of vegetables. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long malty, caramel, light smokey and a pleasant chili burn in the finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2017 at 11:30


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

330ml bottle. Pours very dark. Chilli heat, roasted capsicum, earthy, caramel. More of an adobo sauce type chilli than I’m used to in a chilli beer, but it’s pretty nice.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jan 2017 at 03:10


8

Tried on 28 Dec 2016 at 20:55


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Lebanese in Byfleet. 10/12/16. Bought at Hogs Back Brewery. Surprising lack of aroma. What there is is sweet and yeasty. Dark amber. Thick off-white head. Initially sweet and then the chilli rears its head. Strong but not overdone. Otherwise it’s light bodied. Was suspicious but enjoyed it. Went well with a kebab!

Tried from Bottle on 11 Dec 2016 at 14:23


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

On tap @ Taphouse, Copenhagen. Hazy, dark brown body almost with no head. Quite mild aroma, caramel malt and dry fruit. Flavor is strong, slightly burning chilly, caramel, dry fruit, but too much dominating chilly. Fine body and hot aftertaste. Not in balance, more like a novelty beer.

Tried from Draft on 01 Dec 2016 at 13:45


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle from beer[malade]. Ruby color with small tan head. Aroma of prunes some smoke, chili. Taste, red fruits, plums, chili, lot of chili, light smoke.Powerful, tasty beer.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2016 at 10:00


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bouteille 33cl, BB 28/07/2017 batch# G619. Acajou, col fin blanc-cassé crémeux quasi jaunâtre. Arôme offre un agréable bouquet de fumé et chipotle, malt caramel arrive en rétro tout en laissant de fines effluves fumées se distinguer. Retrouve un rétro léger de fruits secs voire noirs. Palais est léger au niveau du fumé et ici, l’épicé de chipotle devient nettement plus dominant. Le mélange fumé/ chipotle fonctionne bien avec un accompagnement de malt caramel qui arrive juste après. Je retrouve un petit côté métallique de malt pils? voire de la levure, houblonné noble apporte une fine amertume entre fleuri et citronné.

Tried on 29 Nov 2016 at 13:31