Cigar City / Swamp Head Church on a Hill

Brewed by Cigar City Brewing
Style: Barley Wine
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Snifter

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Draft. Pours deep red brown with a thin head. Fruity sweet aroma with toast, raisin and candy. The flavor has sweet fruity malts, toffee, and lightly toasted malts. Good stuff.

Tap @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration, 2012. Hazy brown with small tan head. Aroma is malt, fruit, caramel, dark fruits and a little toffee. Flavour is malt, fruit, caramel, little toffee, dark fruits, medium sweet, hops and a little bitter.

(Tap 12/05-2012) Low light brown head, unclear dark brown, light sweet malty taste.

Tap @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration. Pours dark golden with a white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, yeast, sweet fruit. Taste is sweet malty, peach, caramel, light yeast notes, sweets. Full body, soft carbonation. 120512

CBC. Hazy brown with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and dried fruit. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 120512

12th May 2012
On tap at Copenhagen Beer Celebration.
Hazy deep amber beer, good cream coloured head. Palate is soft with prickly fine carbonation. Toffee and a little wood. Mild dried fruits. A little lacto. Quite a dry finish.

Reddish amber with a small tan head. malty with fruity notes. Malt, lots of fruits and sweetness. Full body with a long balanced after taste. Excellent

Bottle, pours amber/brown with medium head. Aroma & taste is malty, caramel, dark fruits, nuts and some vanilla. Very sweet.

Aroma: Alcohol notes overpower the aroma of toasted malts Appearance: A cloudy deep amber that is practically dark brown Taste: Starts medium sweetness with toffee and malt. Subtle hoppy bitterness and ends with a strong alcohol aftertaste. Palate: Warming finish but too strong an alcohol taste to be smooth. Overall: An interesting collaboration and a better modern take on the Barleywine. Lacks the sophistication expected from these two breweries. Exhibits Cigar City’s mainstays of high alcohol content and assertive hops but fails to balance with a taste that can stand up.

Tap @ CBC, 2012.
Pours deep chestnut with a small, creamy, beige film head. Aroma has lots of sweetness, caramel, chestnuts, hazel and fairly vinious. Milky chocolate. Medium carbonation, nice fat and oily mouthfeel. Flavour is very sweet, vinious, more hazelnuts, caramel. Quite strong alcohol presence. But a nice BW nonetheless.

Draft. An amber beer with a thin yellowish head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of mlat, caramel, brettanomyces, and alcohol.