From a bottle at the RB DC tasting September 6. Pours a clear pale gold with a scant head. Flavors of chili. Flavors of intense green habenero. Whoa!

12 oz. bottle, shared with Carlson. Pale gold color, with almost no head, and some pulp that settles out and acts as activation points for bubbles off the bottom of the glass. The nose is actually reasonable, with some sharp hot pepper, vinegar, caramel, and pine. The flavor destroys all hope - truly awful, corn syrup sweetness, and abrasive and unpleasant hot spice. The mouthfeel is watery, acidic, and harsh. I’m glad I didn’t have to finish a whole bottle. Feels like drinking from a pepper sauce container. Ugh.

Golden color with no head. Aroma of chili. Nothing else. Taste of chili with bad lager in the back. Hellno!

Halleluja - ein Bier mit Peperoni in der Flasche. Im Shaker kein Schaum, kaum bis keine Perlen, gelb, hm und halt mit Peperoni. In der Nase Perperoni, oje. Im Trunk scharf, eigentlich nur scharf und wieder Peperoni. Im Abgang, wer errät es? Scharf und Peperoni. Ekelhaft.

This is just undrinkable. Chilli that burns in your mouth. Shared between me and two friend, half of the bottle was left.

Gimmick lager from a transparent longneck bottle - ominosity is all around. Yellowish golden blonde colour, cristal clear with steady fizz, but apart from some loose, snow white, fizzy bubbles, no head at all... A green chili pepper unexpectedly pops out of the bottle and dives into the beer during pouring. I have never encountered anything more solid than this in any beer, apart from the whole hop cone in Maagd van Gottem, so this does spark my curiosity. Disappointing and weak aroma of dull, sourish grains enhanced by the sourishness of a pickled pepper; cooked corn is omnipresent as well, and so is the peppery, sharp, almost pizza-like spicy smell of the pepper - and that is where it ends, more or less. Neutral, minerally, bland onset, some faint sourish graininess and corny sweetishness but very diluted; the only exciting thing happening here is the burning chili pepper spiciness popping up from the middle onwards and overpowering the rest of the palate, though the awful corny, sickly sweetness manages to remain noticeable just as well. This is among the weirdest beers I ever tasted; this is just another bland gimmick lager trying to be different with simple means. I’d classify this among the league of tequila- and rhum-flavoured lagers: the beer itself is as simple and cheap as possible, but takes its ’personality’ from one particular, exotic, ’unbeery’ ingredient dominating the whole thing. This particular example tastes like the blandest, simplest, most watery tropical lager with Tabasco added - at least conceptually not that different from e.g. Desperados in Europe, where an equally bland lager is pimped with tequila extract. One-sided, weird gimmick without any merits in a purely ’beery’ context, burning the tongue and throat... Weird experience. Undoubtledly awful, an abomination in many ways, but I happen to like capsaicin quite a lot - had this been flavoured with anything else than a chili pepper, I’d rank this among the worst beers I ever tasted. Just another gimmick, like the tequila- or rhum-flavoured bland lagers, this one just happens to hit a sensitive spot with me, the only reason I am rating it a little bit higher than its infamous brethren. By the way: being open to any kind of culinary experience, I tried to consume a piece of the green chili pepper obnoxiously and hideously floating around in my glass like a turd he whole time, but apparently it has lost all of its flavour and heat to the beer...

Appearance: Light golden, clear. Not much head. One 1" green chilli inside.
Aroma: Some chilli. Nothing else.
Taste: Watery lager, followed by lots of chilli flavour. Not as hot as Fallen Angel Black Death which was unbearable and undrinkable. One-dimensional.
Bought: Beers of Europe, 330 ml, £1.79
Info: 31/1-2015, BB: 10/5-2015

Bottle at home. Pours pale piss yellow, bit thin and flat, chili burn overpowers.

Clear bottle. Yellow color and pepper with a little heat. Just an awful beer, pretty much undrinkable.

Golden-yellow, no head, although it has its very own chili pepper in the bottle which I failed to notice when buying and it certainly has a novelty value for me. In truth it’s a low-grade lager but it can get away with this as the chili is dominant in aroma and taste, with the latter aspect more dominant and leaves a very spicy hot aftertaste in the palate. Different, but not great. If you want to reduce the spice throw away the chili.