Cigar City 110K+OT Batch #3

Brewed by Cigar City Brewing
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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Raiting #4000, thanks to Stobbe74 for sharing. Pours cloudy copper with a beige head. Aroma is caramel, dried fruit, alcohol, peach and grapefruit. Flavour is caramel, alcohol, dried fruit, peach, grapefruit and citrus. Smooth and extremely well balanced. Imperial IPA meets Barley Wine. Nice.

Pours an unclear and dark copper beer with an offwhite/orange head. The aroma is malt, fruit, dried fruit, alcohol, wood, vanilla, caramel and hops. The flavor follows the nose with additional grapefruit and citrus. The palate is smooth with sweetness and some bitterness. Overall a really good and complex beer.

Shared at my tasting on August 7, 2010. Thanks to whoever brought it! A: Slight hazy orange-ish hue. Medium-small sized head that leaves a few traces of lacing on the glass. S: This is NOT an IPA. Not by any standards. Heavy malt, little to no hop presence. T: The taste is even more disappointing than the aroma. The beer is way too sweet, with no hops, citrus, floral, or anything else that might be used as a descriptor of a tasty American DIPA. As far as style, this beer gets a WTF rating. There is nothing right about this beer and everything wrong. The taste is odd, off, and overly sweet. The flavor is more like a barleywine gone wrong than anything. Ick... M: Cloying from the first drop. Awful. D: I’m grateful for the opportunity to have tried this beer, as I was really looking forward to it. However, it was plain awful. Drain, meet beer.

Bottle. Moderate to heavy roasted, caramel and cookie for the malt, moderate cooked orange for the hops, light dough and broth for the yeast, with date and brown sugar in the background. Head is small, fizzy/frothy light beige with no lacing but good legs and is mostly diminishing. Color is hazy amber orange. Flavor starts moderately to heavily sweet, lightly acidic, then finishes moderately sweet, lightly acidic and light to moderately bitter. Palate is medium to full, oily with a soft carbonation. A little short on acidity and a little too sweet for a DIPA, but this is still an excellent beer.

14th August 2010
Cloudy amber beer. Little suddy white head. Marmalade hop nose. Softish palate, a little syrupy. Moderate carbonation. Rich marmalade orange and grapefruit hops, not that bitter but with loads of depth. Spicy. Good malt base, juicy toffee caramel. Finishes with well integrated aniseed alcohol. Lingering spicy aftertaste. Very drinkable and very moorish. As much barleywine as DIPA. Sumptuous.

From notes. First reviewed 6/19/2010. Poured from a 750 mL bottle into a tulip. Out of the bottle, the pour is a cloudy amber color, with touches of copper around the edges. A fluffly white head gradually subsides and leaves a thin layer and a ring around the glass. Some sticky lace reminds me of where this beer has been. Very aromatic. Strong toffee malt notes. Grapefruit, pineapple, and apricot citrus aroma, some herbal notes in the nose as well. The flavor starts and stays sweet the whole way through, but not cloying at all. Toffee and a bit of honey provide the steady sweet malt presence. A great variety of pineapple, grapefruit, herbal, and pine hops. The pine blends with a cedar, aged flavor, which helps close out the taste amazingly well. The aftertaste is reminiscent of the hop varieties, but a soft sweetness is also present. Huge taste. Strong creamy feel, it is actually creamier than the medium carbonation would let on. Lots of hop oil residue. Very smooth. I absolutely loved this the first time I had it, maybe a little bit less in subsequent bottles. Even though I normally connect with west coast hop bombs, I enjoyed this huge, sweet, fruity DIPA.

Bottle from Cesar - thanks! Pours a clear and light caramel with a red tinge and a slick of white foam. Aroma is dominated by sweet malt, faded hops, perhaps some remnant of pine, maybe some caramel and perhaps raisin, and a sweet, sugary finish. Taste is very sweet malt with some caramel, a slight but of hop bitterness, and a honey sweetness into the finish. Presents as a very sweet but enjoyable barley wine.

When fresh, it was super sweet with a decent hop nose. Now, it drinks like an English barleywine. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Name: 110K+OT #3
Date: May 28, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Bhalter Summersalter
Vintage: 2010
Appearance: hazy orange, fine off white head
Aroma: sweet fruity aroma, citrus, tropical fruits, nice spicyness
Body: creamy body
Flavor: big sweet malt flavor, lots of tropical fruits, honey sweetness, touch of citrus, just enough bitterness to balance

Name: 110K+OT #3
Date: July 23, 2010
Mode: draft
Source: brewery
Vintage: 2010
much drier on draft, cuts down on the tropical fruits but allow the other hop characters come through, bigger bitterness but still well in balance,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.9/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *** /4

Entering old-rates. Bottle 75cl. Une DIPA assez robuste dans son ensemble, couleur orange profond et col épais beige. Dommage pour un profile houblonné qui ressort presque trop doux avec beaucoup trop de miel qui ressort en bouche et prend un peu le dessus sur les houblons qui eux laissent un fini léger tropical. Alcool est réchauffant avec une amertume qui reste présente. Un peu moins de miel, et le tout aurait été parfait. Encore un petit plus pour l’usage de miel local.