Comments on: GABF: A beer that’s right for the time: Wynkoop Obamanator

By: William Brand

William Brand — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:39:36 +0000

Unfortunately, I have not., Haven’t been to Ft. Collins in a while. Let us know what you think of Wynkoop’s. Don’t suppose Coopersmith bottles theirs?

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:33:45 +0000

Dave, Haven’t gotten to the Wyncoop recently but will have to go “see”. I assume you’ve tried Coopersmith’s Sigda’s Green Chili beer (Ft. Collins)? One of the better balanced chili beers imho. Now I have to get to Wyncoop to compare. thx.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:40:53 +0000

I know Embudo Station well… You’ve gotta love a restaurant that you can pull up to in your raft or kayak!

The chili is from Hatch, nothing else like it on the face of this earth! My father “puts up” two bushels a year for me and then mails it. I may have the only house in the Bay Area with Hatch green chili available 365 days a year.

By: William Brand

William Brand — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:29:08 +0000

Wow Dave, you and me both. I’ve been a green chile fan since I was a kid. We have family in New Mexico, so we visit a lot.
I discovered Steve Eskeback when he had a tiny brewery at Embudo Station on the way to Taos. I was fascinated with how he made a science of it. He’s always used only one kind of chile, grown down by Las Cruces. He said last year the chiles are getting really hard to find.

If you have Eske’s barley wine, you must go to Taos occasionally. Next time you do, drink one for me.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:02:15 +0000

Ah, Eske’s!!

Being born and raised not far from Taos, I remember many nights there back in the early nineties. I think they had just opened.

Eske’s was one of the brewpubs that brought me around to good beer (along with the now defunct Hubcap Brewery in Vail, Co, where I lived later on). I’ve told stories of their Green Chili Beer to anyone that would listen for at least fifteen years now.

The thing about New Mexico Green Chili is that it has a flavor profile unlike any other pepper in the world. For native New Mexicans, no other chili even comes close, and we take our chili VERY seriously!

Eske’s always brought out the characteristics of the chili so nicely and made it fit into the flavor of the beer, nobody had heard of such a thing way back then and hardly anyone pulls it off decently even today.

Thanks Bill, for mentioning one of my blasts from the past! I’ll drink a Bert and Ernie Barley Wine tonight just for the hell of it.

Cheers