Cigar City 110K+OT Batch #2 I.R.I.S.

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

Serve in Snifter

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Thanks to jblauvs for this one. Motor oil black pour with an incredibly dark brown head. Beautiful looking stuff. Nose holds biiiig notes of dark chocolate, definite cedar woodiness, roast and toast, some lactic cream, anise, and almost a touch of cayenne pepper, like Hunahpu. Absolutely delightful. Flavor has loads of baker’s chocolate and bitterness from the cedar, coffee, wood and spice. Mouthfeel is really nice, hiding the 11% very well, and not exceptionally thick. Really awesome, I’m glad this didn’t go over the hill. Super pleased.

Epic blackness with a frothy tan head. The aroma is cocoa nib, cedar, roasted malts, brownie, milk chocolate, booze, licorice, and Cayenne spice. The flavor holds huge burnt malts, cocoa nib, roasty bakers chocolate, espresso, and woody cedar spice. The palate is epically thick and rich with an oily texture and a dry chalky finish.

In short: An uber-sweet, boozy and strangely woody impy stout. Over-the-top with no class
How: Bottle 750ml. Consumed when a little over one year of age. One of the few bottles I received from solan and … somebody else. Thanks a lot guys!
The look: Black body topped by a medium tan head with medium retention
In long: From the nose you can tell this will be one hell of a heavy beer. Nose has toasted wood, wort, fresh tobacco leafs, alcohol, some figs. Taste is overly sweet, creamy commercial milk chocolate bar, too much alcohol, too much toasted wood with a spicy edge, figs, roast, brownies and a strong surprising fruity hop bitterness. Very long finish. I could probably list more flavour elements but it doesn’t matter. What’s important is that the beer throws a lot of stuff at your. Body is thick and very viscous but has plenty of small bubbles so it doesn’t feel like a syrup. You’d figure that with such a thick body the alcohol would be well hidden but it is not, not at all. I understand that big beers are not session beers but there are plenty of comparable beers in style and gravity (Dark Lord, etc.) that I find a pure delight to drink by the bottle. But this 110K #2 I just couldn’t finish. I didn’t find what’s so great about this one. This #2 is not the shit.

Bottle 750ml.

[ Trade by GAManiac ]. Clear dark dark black color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully to mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, burnt, chocolate, coffee, wood - oak, alcohol. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long long duration, licorice, dark dried fruit, chocolate, cedder wood, tobacco. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcohol. Damm this is a good beer IMO >;O) [20110312]

Trade from rgtravers, Thanks a bunch. Bottle @ Odense tasting. Black body with a medium forever lasting brown head. Aroma is coffee, chocolate, cocoa, roasted malt, vanilla and dark ripe fruit. Flavor is coffee, chocolate, roasted malt, vanilla, dark fruit and sweet ripe fruit. Nice lacings. Thick body.

Pours black with a brown head. Aroma is intense roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, liquorish, wood, alcohol, ash and vanilla. Flavour is heavy roasted malt, malt acidic, cedar wood, ash and chocolate. I like this....

Black....dark, thick. Light brown head, medium duration. Dark aroma, caramel, medicine, faint ceder-tree. Flavor is heavy sweet, dry ceder, more medicine, chocolate, salt, laqurice, some coffee too. And after 2 minutes still more impressions, perhaps soft vanilla. Pine. Syrupy texture. Soft carbonation.

Courtesy F1-fan. Pitch black color with okay head. Strong coffee and raisins and sweetness. Jesus thats a strong beer. Very nice palate.

Bottle. Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Heavy malty and hoppy aroma. Coffee, vanilla, chcolate notes. Heavy bitter wonderfull flavor. Chcolate and vanilla dominating. Creamy palate. Long great powerfull finish.

Bottle from FOneFan. Black with brown head. Flavour is roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, bitter, liquorice, littel sweet and little vinous.