Cigar City 110K+OT Batch #2 Barrel Aged

Formerly brewed at Cigar City Brewing
Style: Imperial Stout
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Snifter

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’09 notes draft @ CCB release party. pours a deep dark of the abyss with a gooey oil like dark mahogany head. It pours thick, oily, dark golden stains lacing and glass. aroma of cedar wood with warming chocolate malts and hints of the bourbon. taste, thick chocolate palate with spicy elements of cedar wood and warmth of the bourbon contact tough not overpowering. Light floral hops and dry hopping adding for an amazing mouthfeel with the cedar. The blend of cedar and bourbon is just perfect and balanced.

185/449 opened on my new years beer bash. Pours viscous pitch black with medium coco colored head. Beer coats the glass and is insanely dark. Aroma is bursting with tons of coffee and chocolate with subtle woody earthy tones and a very nice sweetness from the barrels. Taste is very in your face but dangerously easy drinker. Starts out with palate coating chocolate and deep coffee. as the middle of the body comes through sweet chocolate and oak/woody with a moderate amount of bourbon. Finishes with more coffee and slight bitter bite leading into a dark malty sweetness. fantastic

Bottle #129/449, shared by badnewsbeers. Deep opaque brown-black body, thin-medium clumping ochre head. Nose very similar to the non-BA version, with potent cocoa and coffee, wood, musty notes, and alcohol. Strong body with dense burnt brown sugars, cocoa, coffee, musty cedar, and oak, very similar to the non-BA version but more tannic. Very good.

Forget the moon and the stars and the sun, because night has moved in with no intentions of ever leaving. A thin burnt crema head is all that remains of light’s demise and judging by the silly grin on my face, definitely not a bad thing. Tenderly swirling her oily depths, more tears than lace are left behind, though a storm cloud of burnt crema burbles on the surface. Is that a storm brewing? Why no, tis an organized raucous of chocolate, wood, bourbon, caramel, licorice, cigar and tobacco leaf, cherries, cacao nibs, fudge and brownies. Take all the above, toss in a fiery pit of smoky burnt goodness, leave, and then return when cool and enjoy. That is her nose in a nutshell and I’m already in beervana without a single drop having touched these lips…yet. I’m taken aback by how clean and teasingly mild our first embrace is, and then all hell breaks loose. Ohmygawd! Chocolate bars dark, brittle, crunchy, and slightly singed. Toasted marshmallows mingle alongside smoking caramel nuggets while tobacco leaf curls and furls in the lapping flames and sweet ashy smoke. Forget the oasis and head straight for the oil pits filled with bourbon barrel aged India Russian Imperial Stout goodness instead. Hop spice tickles the back and my breath along with wood and tobacco treats. Nummers! Definitely a brew best enjoyed without ever having seen the fridge. Slightly chilled doesn’t even apply. From cellar to glass to lips to heaven. That was the righteous procession I followed and with toes well curled, the pen rests and slow simple savoring ensues.

Seriously, I don’t need to say anymore, and so I won’t.

Barrel Aged 110K+OT Batch #2: An Imperial Stout dry hopped with Mt. Rainier hops and lightly aged on toasted Spanish Cedar then further matured in former bourbon oak barrels. 11.5% ABV

129/449. Bottle. Black pour with brown head. Aroma same as the regular version. No barrel aging noticed. Still nice. Barrel aging comes out in the flavor tho. Big bourbon/oak with chocolalte, grass, coffee beans and charred toast. Hint of vanilla.

75cl bottle, thanks sebletitje. Small tan head atop brown-black body. Aroma is moderately sweet, Bourbon, some vinous, light smoke. Taste is sweet, Bourbon, some vinous, light smoke, coffee/roast. Sticky medium-full body, light acidity.

Entered as rating # 3000. Bottle at Papsø. Opaque pitch black pour with a medium tan head. The aroma is heavy roasted, coffee, light chocolate, tar and some dark fruit. Lovely! Heavy roasted flavour with notes of coffee, bourbon, light smoke and light chocolate that ends up with a long roasty kick. Very nice.

750 ml. bottle. dark black with a tan head. roasty, licorice, chocolate and faint bourbon. drinkable, big boy stout. very nice.

22oz bottle pours a oily, opaque black with a rusty looking head. Nose is turpentine, wood, vanilla, malts, rum, whiskey. Flavor is chocolate, malty, whiskey, brown sugar, coffee, a little cherry, molasses, light smoke. Finish is super smooth. Full bodied but totally drinkable.