I won’t take up too much of your time today, folks. I know we’ve all got football to watch.

I’ve loved spicy food for a long time. I don’t believe that this is something that makes me special or unique, but it is true. I don’t really even know a lot about peppers, beyond a general sense of which ones are the really hot ones, but I do know that peppers are delicious. And I discovered, maybe a few years ago, that people aren’t just putting them in food these days; they’re in booze now too!

Twisted Pine Billy’s Chilies is, at base, a wheat beer, and it pours a pale hazy yellow as wheat beers do. The nose, well: You know when you slice open a fresh pepper? It’s that. There’s no sense trying to sugarcoat this: I’ve chosen to review a completely one-dimensional beer. The brewers threw a whole assload of peppers into this thing; Anaheims, serranos, Fresnos, jalapeños, and habaneros. It tastes like all of those things, fresh and exuberantly flavorful. The heat isn’t overwhelming, unlike in Twisted Pine’s delicious and horrifyingly hot Ghost Face Killah, but–okay, look. I know I said “assload” up there, but do not buttchug this beer. There’s no point in talking about malt or hops or yeast in this review; you’re not going to notice any of those things when you drink Billy’s Chilies.

Grade: A thousand or so Scoville units.

lady snow says: It’s not so hot that everyone can’t enjoy it, but you still get the nice peppery chili flavor.s

Battlecat says: I’ll slice your face up if you don’t get this bottle off me, dude.

tl;dr: This is undeniably a weird beer. Drink it if you like things that taste like peppers.

make it snow is an alot of beer who has drunk at least 2000 unique beers in his life, and is only a few beers away from being able to prove it on Untappd. He drank two bottles of Billy’s Chilies while writing this review. He’s not even hungover this morning but he’s still watching Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong.