Beerbliotek Black Ale Chilli
Our black ale has a bit of a kick. We add dried red chillies to the fermenter for a hint of fruit, and to create a dry, spicy finish.
3.5
165 reviews
Göteborg, Sweden
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Can sample at a tasting at Tom's place. Thanks Max. Deep brown with brownish head. The aroma has notes chili, roast, coffee beans, "green", spices, olives, hoppy. Bitter flavor, hot with notes of chili, "green", coffee, roast, pickles, mild sourness, vegetables. Slightly dry, light to medium-bodied.
Roasted aroma with notes of chocolate. Taste is roasted malts, medium bitterness and a really nice spicy finish.
At Tom's Place, pours black with a beige head, aroma of chocolate, coffee, flavor of chocolate, coffee, chilli, medium bodied
Pours black, medium and firm tan head with good lacing. Strong aroma or roasted malts, with a note of chocolate and vegetable. Taste roasty, rich, malty and chocolatey, chili add flavour and a heat kick, burnt caramel, bitter and citrus hops, roasty-bitter and spicy finish. Medium body, soft carbonation, creamy mouthfeel. Interesting ale, a rich Black IPA, strong on malts and with the great addition of chili. A very good brew.
Canned 330ml. -from Beergium. Black coloured, medium sized beige/brownish head, mild roasty nose with whiff of chili. Roasted malt, light chocolate, subdued chili and rather dry roasty finish. Chili profile could be more pronounced here.
Can 330ml (BRGM)
Opaque brown-black colour, medium-sized beige head and lace. Aroma has toasted notes, cloak, chilli and earth, even some smokey sensation. Medium to full-bodied. Toasted flavour with chocolate and then chilli burn. Also some unwanted funkyness (yeastyness). Long coffeish-spicey aftertaste. Decent use of chillis but gives a bit unclean feeling.
Can from Brewcraft at home. Hazy nearly opaque black pour with puffy cappuccino head. Aroma is dank wet hops with some citrus zest and roasted coffee malt. Very nice. Taste is deep roasted coffee malt followed by a sharp bitter hop bite, accentuated by a growing chili heat that warms and lasts. Smooth palate that gets a bit rougher with the chili heat. Unusual take on a black IPA but it’s well done. I’d get again but not for the price here ~HK$60.
Brunsvart öl med ett beige skum. Doft av rostade kaffebönor, mörka bär och chilli. I smaken tillkommer citrustoner och chillin är mycket mer dominerande. Nu är varken BIPA eller chilliöl några personliga favoriter.
Burk från SB. Opak, närmast svart vätska med lågt beige skum. Fin pigg men ganska mjuk humledoft som drar åt färsk tallbark, svarta vinbärsblad, men också lite choklad. Kraftfullt smak med humle och rejält med chili med drag av grön paprika och bra hetta. Smakerna hålls ihop väl av en mjuk rund kropp. Snygg med bra balans.
Aroma is slightly roasted malts with a distinct sharp and stingy red note. Taste is at first mild light earthy with a hint of licorice root, before the chili begins to rise. Gradually it develops more and more, but comes to an halt just before it gets too hot. It leaves you with a somewhat hot chili burn that hangs around for a while. As the beer warms up, it gets even hotter.
Can from systembolaget. Pours a dark colour beer with a medium head. Roasted malt with fruity and hoppy notes. Dry finish.
Burk från SB. Svartbrun kulör med brun skumkrona. Doft av choklad, rostad malt, kaffe, mango och röd chili. Söt, torr och brännande munkänsla. Smak av mörk choklad, mjölkchoklad, honung, röd chili och torkad chipotle. Välbalanserad chili- hetta i eftersmaken.
Delicious aromas of fruity and a bit dark malt. The same applies to the taste with a bit of chilli. Wonderful bitterness that fills the mouth forever. Very good beer. Follow me @ Kung av öl @ Facebook for more pictures and ratings.
@ Bjällerödsvägen 5/3-18. Can from Systembolaget. Roasted with chili and coffee, also notes of hops and chocolate. Body is medium, the finish is dry and roasted with coffee and chili.
330ml bottle (7.6%) at home on 3 Mar 2018, from Appellation Wines, Dalry Road, Edinburgh (bb 1 Jul 2018): roast malt, smoked aroma, deep chestnut brown, good creamy beige head, roast malt, coffee, dark chocolate, syrupy, mild chilli burn,
Can from web SB cons 2018-02-24 Göteborg
AR: roasted malt, smoked chilli
AP: dark brown, frothy steady cream brown head
F: roasted malt, chilli, chilli heat, dry, again proven - dosen’t work with chilli in bear, this was a better variant do...
Black with a creamy head.
Aroma: roasted malt, pepper, some fruit, some coffee.
Taste: roasted malt, spicy chilli, some dark chocolate, coffee bitterness.
@ Havregatan 20180223. Can (330 ml) from Systembolaget. Roasted malty and spicy with hoppy notes, coffee, chocolate and chili, medium body with an oily texture. The finish is dry, bitter and roasted with chocolate, hoppy notes, coffee and a touch of chili.
Burk beställd från SB. Svart med ljusbrunt skum. Doft av kaffe och lite fruktig chili. Rostad smak med trevlig humle och chilifinish.
330ml can from Systembolaget. Very dark brown pour, tanned head, good lacing. Citrus hoppy aroma with roasted malts and mild green peppers. Silky mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Roasted taste, citrus hops, first impressions of a traditional black ipa. Later in the taste the chili kicks in, gets a bit hotter for each sip. Might work better without the chill but as far as chili brews goes this is quite alright.
Can at BB taproom. Chili, vegetables, green chili, coffee in aroma. Lightly chili in mouthfeel, of the green stuff.
Canned from Systembolaget
Black with a huge, beige head.
Sweet liquorice with a sting of chili in the aroma.
Rather sweet flavour with liquorice and rather prominent chili.
Light bitterness.
Can. Unclear, dark brown color, slightly creamy foam. Aroma: peppery, creosote, caramel, earthy. Taste: chili, caramel, malt, peat smoked, hot, warming.
Some smoked Scotch Whiskey, light Laphroaig touch, some glue, herbal. Black color with medium sized tan head. Roasted malt, smoked wood, but not as chilli and hot as I have hoped. Still, very good brew. //Vrteška 2017
Lively black beer, thin bubbly head. Smell is malty with the chilli there too, and these are the defining features of the taste as well. Light earthy malt, a touch of chilli, some dark chocolate and maybe just a hint of caramel too. Airy, spicy finish. Bit watery. Not bad. Chilli isn’t so dominant which suits me as I find chilli beers a bit hit and miss.
On tap at Vrteška 2017, shared with Višnja 666! Murky dark brown, small off-white head. Slightly off, medicinal. Light spicy flavors. Light body, flat, hot finish. Nothing special.
Bottle from Appellation Wines Dalry Road. Pours Dark toffee brown. Nose of savoury chilli, dark chocolate, malts. Taste is a bit of chilli heat, burnt toffee, malt loaf. Long, spicy finish.
Bottle from Appellation Wines.
Appearance - deep brown with amber shades. Nice fluffy fawn head.
Nose - molasses and herbs, which probably converge to be liquorice. Or at least, a salty liquorice thing.
Taste - oh, here comes the chilli. Light prickle of heat, dry chocolate and molasses again. Smoky chilli, for sure. Some herbs return to the finish.
Palate - close to medium bodied. Creamy middle section. Dry, spicy finish.
Overall - good. Really good. And I’m not a fan of chilli in beer, generally.
Allegedly Beerbliotek’s first creation but still in existence, a ’black ale’ (which has no specific meaning in beer style territory) spiced up with dried red chilli peppers. Crown cap under strong pressure, but by opening it extremely slowly, I managed to avoid heavy gushing. Thickly cobweb-lacing, pale greyish beige, very moussy, initially very thick head, slowly thinning but nevertheless remaining completely closed for a very long time, over a clear, deep bronze-ish purple beer, dark but fully translucent (with some dead yeast dots floating by) and certainly not ’black’ in the literal sense of the word, as is the case with many (especially stronger) stouts and porters. Interesting, pungent and spicy bouquet mixing dried chillies with a malt sweet basis, impressions of dried Habanero peppers including their typical smokiness, piri-piri, moist peat (even though this has not been aged on peated whisky barrels as far as I know), dried prunes, candied fig, soap, dried lavender flowers, drops of hazelnut oil, hard old butterscotch candy, violets, black peppercorns, some wet leather, dry pipe tobacco, liquorish, cured meat, capers, fried black olives, artichoke, pine resin, caramel. Restrained dried fruit sweetness in the onset, dried fig and a touch of banana, immediately overcome by a basic, dried blackberry-ish, ’dim’ but effective sourishness and a dried meat- or even somewhat black olive-like umami factor. Expectedly very fizzy carbonation, but luckily in the form of very refined bubbling, so not coarsening the mouthfeel too much, yet still fizzing away too enthusiastically for this type of beers. Slick, resinous nutty and toasted middle with still those dried fruit and ’dry umami’ aspects lingering (with some caramelly sweet ’core’ lurking underneath the bitterness), shifting to an increasing, powerful, spicy hop bitterness accentuating the toasted aspect, with retronasal piney and peppery effects. This peppery aspect is unsurprisingly strongly highlighted by the chillies, which turn the finish into a vibrantly spicy, drying but at the same time very appetizing, heating experience, stretching a long way down into the throat and leaving behind a trail of strong peppery spiciness with a lightly smoked touch; the chilli heat, however, does not become spicy to the extent that it becomes numbing, irritating or otherwise overpowering, but it sure gives a considerable kick in the end. Dry, very spicy and umami-forwarded beer, interesting but a bit ’obstinate’, with overcarbonation probably due to the addition of the chilli peppers; this is basically a black IPA, showing the same amount of ’stubbornness’ in the mouth, the same looks and general flavor profile, the same uncompromizing hop bitterness and the same piney aspects in the nose, but ’pimped’ with the dried chillies which in this case lift up the peppery aspects of the hop to a higher, much more vivid and radiant level. Not the easiest beer around and surely you’ll have to like both BIPA and chilli heat to appreciate this - fortunately I do, so in the end I enjoyed this daring beer quite a lot. One to savour slowly.
On tap at Vrteška 2017. Pours black with beige head. Smoke, wood, iodine, peat, malty. Spicy with medium chilli burn in finish. Medium bodied.