Fire Escape! CHEERS Rescues Taste Buds at the Hot&Spicy Festival

HOT & SPICY FESTIVAL 2021

Team CHEERS beat the heat at the Beijinger Hot & Spicy Festival last weekend, serving refreshing drinks to provide relief from fiery eats.

The festival featured dozens of food booths, with everything from super spicy chicken bites to chorizo burgers to Sichuan-style bullfrog in chili oil. And all that food meant a need for beverages to turn down the heat.

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At the CHEERS’ booth, Wild Africa Cream from South Africa’s KWV led the way, not a surprise given a deal of two glasses for just 25 kuai.

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Wild Africa Cream was also sponsor of a chili pepper-eating competition where contestants ultimately mowed down on ghost peppers. (A ghost pepper has a heat unit rating of almost 1,000,000. Compare that to a jalapeno pepper with a 5,000 rating and you can see these guys were playing with fire.)

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Other CHEERS options at the festival included Chamanto Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc from Chile and Cava Bonaval sparkling wine from Spain. 

Plus, a newcomer to the CHEERS family, root beer from Appenzeller in Switzerland -- you can read more about that one here.

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