beer Wildfire Lager from Fitgers Brewhouse

[MNhots]

I tried this tonight at the source. The Fitgers Brewhouse in Duluth, MN.
 
http://brewhouse.net/brews/wildfire/
 
The waitress tells me it is made with Serrano, Habanero, and 5 types of New Mexico Hatch peppers.
 
I asked for a taster before deciding if I wanted a pint or not.
 
This brew had quite a strong green serrano flavor in my opinion. 
I have never had a hatch pepper, so I cannot verify if that contributed a lot to the flavor.
 
I want to say it tasted "seedy" also. I am no connoisseur of peppers yet, but it just had that unripe green seedy flavor you get from a serrano sometimes.
Alsmost felt like I had seeds stuck in my teeth after sipping it.
I love serranos, but this recipe did not please me.
 
This brew had a little heat but not nearly enough to balance out that flavor.
 
I did not get a pint. It just wasn't doing the trick for me.
 
I think a fruitier superhot accent with a bit more heat would have made a much better brew.
 
I did have a hopalujah. Proper fresh IPA. yum.
http://brewhouse.net/brews/hoppelujah-ipa/
 
Cheers!
 

 

[Nigel]

Pity. There are quite a few brewers doing wonderful things with hot peppers and beer. The trick is to make beer that tastes like beer, then has a kick in the end. Many go for the hot-beer concept and that is very one-dimensional. 

 

[Roguejim]

I predict "pepper beers", no matter how palatable, will never catch on to more than an obtuse micro-niche of the beer drinking world, in spite of Nigel's one man crusade.  March on, Sir!  We'll still be here when you return.
 

Pity. There are quite a few brewers doing wonderful things with hot peppers and beer. The trick is to make beer that tastes like beer, then has a kick in the end. Many go for the hot-beer concept and that is very one-dimensional. 

 
I predict "pepper beers", no matter how much they are touted, will never catch on to more than an obtuse micro-niche of the beer drinking world, in spite of Nigel's one man crusade.  March on, Sir!  We'll still be here when you return.