Jailbreak Brewing Welcome to Scoville
I like beer, obviously, but I also enjoy a good bit of heat in food through the use of fiery peppers. I grow them at home and any time I run across a brew that utilizes them in their recipe, I tend to get pretty excited. The same feeling arose internally when I spied a can of Jailbreak’s Welcome to Scoville, an IPA brewed with jalepenos and cilantro. For those unfamiliar, scoville in the beer’s name refers to the unit of measure used to describe the amount of heat a pepper may have.
For chili heads, Welcome to Scoville, will probably be a bit disappointing as there is zero heat within its copper-tinged depths. As chilies go, the jalepeno isn’t my favorite, but when fresh it can add a decent bit of heat and flavor. The pepper influence here, unfortunately, tastes like the brewery used jarred and pickled jalepeno — it’s not a trait that really works well here. I didn’t taste any cilantro either.
In the end, Welcome to Scoville tasted more like an amber ale than an IPA. I would have preferred some heat in the mix there and wasn’t a fan of the pickled character of the jalepeno. The particular can I reviewed was less than two months old, so I can’t imagine that the flavors would have faded that quickly, but who knows.