Twisted Pine Ghost Face Killah
Six kinds of hot chili peppers go into this fiery-ass beer including the infamous ghost pepper. Serrano, jalapeno, habanero, fresno & anaheim also lend their rich flavors to make for a taste-sizzling good time. Keep away from children and the tepid of tongue.
2.4
285 reviews
Boulder, United States
Community reviews
OH MY G&D THIS IS HOREIBLE! SO AWEFUL FLAYVER TASTE BURNT MY WHOLE MOUTH AND STOMACHE. I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY’RE MAKE SO HOT THEN DONT WARN YOU ITS GOING BURNING YOUR FACE AND MOUTH TO. THE FIRST BUT LAST TIME IM DRINK THIS BEERS EVER LET ME TELL YOU ITS SO BURNT. PLINY (ITS GREATE) TASTE SO GOOD AFTER DRUNK THIS DEMON BLUD. THE WORST PART IS AT POOL NEXT DAY WITH MUD B$TT.
From bottle. Very earthy vegetal notes dominate the palate. Not a pleasant one to look at. Burns and burns and burns like nothing else on the market. A novelty, yes, but few beers do *exactly* what they are advertised to do like this beer does. I wasn’t wondering what its ABV was in the slightest - surprised to see it so low, but really, do the technical elements of this beer matter whatsoever? Drink it, wimp.
SF5. Pours pale yellow. Aroma spicy pepper, deceptively faint. Burns like a mother fucker. Didn’t get much in the way of flavor, just burn. A chili ingredient, not a beer. Too bad, these are flavorful peppers that are only being used for heat as opposed to flavor.
Bottle. Pours a slightly cloudy copper, white head that Is gone immediately, no lace. Nose smells like a spicey Mexican dish, obviously hot peppers. Tastes awful to be honest. It’s hot pepper, tobasco, chilli pepper, turns my stomach. I love hot food, but I’m not a fan. No reason to drink this other than a dare.
Cloudy golden yellow. Small head. Immense chili aroma supplemented with malt perhaps? Honestly, I’m incapable of recognizing anything save for chilies. Mid bodied. Slightly salty. Absolutely gargantuan chili flavour. It’s difficult to discern any other tastes. Tongue burning sensation several moments following each sip. I’m glad I finished this, but it certainly wasn’t delectable.
Twisted Pine’s “Ghost Face Killah” is not a beer, it is an alcoholic gag gift. A beer would imply it’s drinkable and has elements of malts and hops. This is essentially just carbonated hot sauce. It really has no redeeming qualities since it’s extremely difficult to drink more than an ounce of it because it is so ridiculously hot.
I poured a 12oz bottle into a shaker glass. There was no freshness date and it cost $3.99 ($0.33 per ounce).
Appearance: Ugly carrot-orange color over a hazy/cloudy body (I can see some carbonation, though). Pours to a miniscule, orange, soapy head which fizzles away immediately.
Smell: Extremely pungent pepper aroma, not unlike hot sauce. Slightly smokey. No “beer” smell at all.
Taste: I’m no stranger to peppers. I’ve grown my own jalapenos, habaneros and Trinidad Scorpion peppers and eaten them raw. I’ve even brewed with these peppers and was able to use them to impart gentle warmth. Twisted Pine’s “Ghost Face Killah” is most definitely not gentle, nor is it warm. In fact, “hot” doesn’t really describe it. As soon as it touches the tongue and lips the body parts are on fire. It has the taste of raw peppers as it goes down – a nasty earthy/soil-like flavor. After a while, there’s a slight smokey aftertaste, not unlike that of a Chipotle pepper, but by that point it’s too late. I can’t imagine anyone other than a pepper enthusiast being able to get through more than 4oz of this. There’s nothing to taste, it’s just liquid fire.
Drinkability: Quite simply, this is undrinkable. It’s just too intense and the capsaicin lingers in the mouth for quite a while afterwards. It upset my stomach a bit, too.
This beer is stupid. It smells like vegetables and maybe some smoke. It’s one note, hot and peppery. Would be good mixed with tomato juice but on its own it’s a bit much. Still worth trying as a curiosity and is devoid of any of notes so nota total loss.
12oz bottle poured into glass -- Well, this beer happened. I first had it as a home brew, someone decided it was a good idea as a mass produced beer. I argue, "why? " Uncomfortably hot, nothing favorable. I tried to enjoy this brew. Pretty sure I?m about to go shit lava now.
... I have come to the point that I don’t even want to drink this beer, I’m looking at and avoiding it.
Bottle. Pours golden yellow with no head. Aroma was a hot blend of chili peppers. Flavor was hot & spicy with pale malts, chili peppers with a long lingering burning finish. Strictly a novelty beer.
I love hot food, but this beer is undrinkable. Way too much heat. This is a gimmick beer. Don't buy, I took one sip and dumped it.
Sample at Kurtkeller 018: Tequila-aged and Let’s Agree to Ruin Our Evening with Pepper beers-tastic 01 on 11/04/2014. Clear bright orange-gold color with a minimal white head that disappears quickly. Spotty lacing. The aroma is all peppers. Light-bodied with flavors of searingly hot peppers with a touch of pale malt behind it. The finish is hot with a lingering hot pepper aftertaste. Not as day-ruiningly hot as Elevator Ghost Scorpion, but unapproachable and difficult to drink,so scored accordingly.
Bottle sample at a tasting at Beer & Beyond. Cloudy yellow amber and headless. Hot Serrano pepper in brine aroma, very hot, and nothing but hot chili pepper in the mouth. Medium body and hardly any carbonation. Lip burner and challenging.
Bottle. golden colour with a white head. Aroma is dry, chili, grass. Flavour is dry, chili, chili, chili, chili, chili, chili. Too hot. Overkill.
Bottle from Craft. Really just pepper. Nothing else to say. Burns going in and coming out. I needed the rating, interesting concept, but I wouldn’t get it again.
Bottle sample at a tasting at Beer & Beyond, Tel Aviv. Clear light yellow with quickly diminishing small white head. Very hot aroma, chili, pickles, some olives. Very very very hot flavor, pickles, very light sweetness. Light carbonation, probably light-bodied. It feels hot in lips, the tongue, the throat, all the way to the stomach, and it’s long lasting...
Poured from bottle to glass. Golden hue with fuzzy white head that dissipated quickly. Aroma is chili peppers and straw. Mouthfeel is good with a medium light body and crisp carbonation. Taste is overwhelmingly spicy throughout. Overall this is one of the hottest beers that I’ve had. The pepper flavor is actually quite impressive and the beer is very well made. That being said...this is nothing but a novelty brew!
"2nd or 3rd hottest beer I’ve ever had. you feel it in your gut, but it’s not as palate destroying as a couple others. Decent pepper taste, though it becomes a bit much if you’re having more than, say, 2 oz. I’d get again to share, but not a beer I’ll drink often."
Gotta up my original 2,7 score, as this is WAY more drinkbale on tap at the brewery. Still not gonna be for everyone, or even most, but despite the intensity, it's got a great peppery nose and flavor.
From a 12 oz bottle shared at the Beer Heads bottle share in Falls Church. Pours a cloudy gold with a feint off white head. Intense chili pepper aroma. Overwhelming heat. Interesting. Definitely not a session beer. A palate wrecker.
Bottle courtesy of Beerandblues2, thank you sir! Bright yellow color, small white head. Aroma is shocking!!! Chili powder, almost painful. Taste is pure pain. Danger, danger, danger. More difficult than drinking Mikkeller Black.
Bottle. Pours a golden orange with minimal head. Aroma of spices. Taste of liquid chili. Basically a novelty beer.
This poured a bright orange with a white head. Aroma was straight chili’s, basically liquid hot sauce. Flavor was similar, a sip or two is enough. The taste isn’t bad, its just too hot to enjoy.
Pours a clear golden yellow. No head. Aroma of straight chillies. Taste is hot hot hot! Just like drinking a hot sauce. Even burns all the way down. Medium thick mouthfeel. Pretty darn gross.
Bottle thanks to arts share. Poured pale yellow with no head. Aroma of green peppers and other spicy ones. Taste of straight spice. Super spice all spice.
Bottle. A hazy, orange beer, more or less flat and headless. Green bell peppers, green chili, some pale malts and citrus fruit. So much chili that it’s hurting in the eyes. The flavor has loads of chiliburn, some maltyness and citrus, and also both green chili and green bell peppers. It’s full-bodied and warming on the palate, really, really warming, and lightly oily. Lacking a bit on carbonation. Some bitterness towards the very end. Wow! This one’s damn hot, but in small quantities it’s actually good. So good I think I could perhaps finish a bottle on my own. 140530
Bottle 355ml @ home
Pours hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma has notes of malt, jalapeno and habanero pepper fruits. Taste is light sweet with a long ridiculously hot chili burn ( but only on the tongue and lips and lucikily not the throat ) and some chili fruitiness in the finish after the worst of the burn wheres off. Body is light, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Bottle. Pours golden with an off-white head. Aroma of bell peppers, jalapeno, malt and fruitiness. Flavor is sweet and fruity with some chilli burn, bell-pepper and chilli. Medium body, average carbonation.Really hot!
12oz bottle smells and taste like a cut up pepper. Almost ruined our tasting but made up for it when we gave an unsuspecting fellow a large glass of some.
12oz. bottle. Aroma of jalapeno juice, basically like unscrewing a bottle of peppers and sticking your nose in there. Light-medium yellow in color, not much carbonation or head to speak of. Flavor profile is just pure chili pepper flavor and extreme heat, again I have to go back to the jalapeno juice comparison, only much hotter. No beer flavor whatsoever, it’s completely lost in the over the top heat and pepper juice character. Just gets hotter and hotter over the next few minutes after the swallow. Not pleasant. Kind of a joke I guess, but not a funny one. It’s safe to say that I hated it.
Oh good god. finall drank this rew from LeninCat. This is the chili beer to end all chili beers. Nothing covers the heat. you are drinking fucken hot sauce at this point. would really love to be @ puking just now.
Bottle. Watery sip from hell. Smells like my grandpa's old garage and burns worse than grandma's chili.