Pipeworks Chipotle Smoked Porter
 

Review Date 4/13/2026 By John Staradumsky

  Style: Chili Beer   Brewery: Pipeworks   Country: USA   State: Illinois   $ Per OZ: N/A   ABV: 7.2%

Project weekends! I hate them! Don’t you hate them? I hate them! I think I said that already. The whole point of the weekend is a break from work, which we just did all week, so who needs a project to work on on the weekend? Defeats the entire purpose of the weekend if you ask me, which you clearly did, or you wouldn’t be reading this.

Anyway, I had a project weekend, but as project weekends go, it wasn’t all that bad. I was assembling a large steel cabinet for my hallway, which was a pain of a job, especially at my age. A lot of bending and stooping involved, and I can tell you that the older you get, the more that gets you. However, the cabinet was going to be used to store…beer glasses!

I have shelves in the hallway lined with beer glasses, but two of them began to droop, and I caught them just in time before tragedy occurred and they came crashing down. I decided to replace them with a cabinet, which could hold more beer glasses. So I did, and by now you may be wondering what the bloody hell this has to do with Pipeworks beer, so I will tell you.

I decided to christen my newly assembled cabinet with…a new beer glass! I headed on over to Ebay and, having just purchased a can of Pipeworks Smoked Chipotle Porter from Half Time, and not having a Pipeworks glass, I bought one. Thus, here we are! Pipeworks beers, now in their own right and proper glass.

Pipeworks does not list or describe their beers on their very basic website, but the description on the Half Time page for the beer said:

Chipotle Peppers in a smoked porter? It's certainly something special.

The label says the beer has an alcohol content of 7.2% by volume, and I paid $5.49 for my pint can from Half Time. There was no freshness dating.

Pipeworks Smoked Chipotle Porter pours to a jet-black color with a thick creamy tan head and a nose of dark chocolate and spicy peppers. Taking a sip, the beer is medium in body and immediately roasty with dark chocolate and roasted malt. It’s underlined with spicy pepper notes, though they are definitely on the mild side. Not really smoky actually, I would not call it a smoked porter myself. The peppers pop in the finish and the beer finishes dry roasty.

A tasty enough porter, but I would like more smoke smoke and peppers here. That said I would certainly buy it and drink it again.

Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??