Cigar City Batch #69 Double Cream Ale

Brewed by Cigar City Brewing
Style: American Strong Ale
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

Entering old-rates. Couleur orange-ambre, col épais blanc. Nez fruité houblonné bien malté et restant doux. En bouche, une bière traitre par sa facilité à boire, mais les 9% arrive bien discrètement. Palais est doux voire crémeux le tout accompagner d’une belle dose de citron et agrumes laissant une fine amertume qui est compensée par un malt doux, caramel qui reste en retrait avec une pointe de sucre. Pourrait passer pour une belle DIPA.

Poured clear and golden smelled of bread caramel and a lot of alcohol tasted very mellow for amount of alcohol very boring but drinkable

Pours deep amber with notes of dried fuits. the mouth goes deeper with a longer hint of tree fruits such as apples or even pears in sweetness. Heavier on the body with nice long finish.

Draft at WOB (Land O Lakes). Pours a clear amber Orange color with a sudsy beige head. Aroma is pretty sweet with prevalent alcohol notes and hints of candies Apple and grape. Good flavor with a tony bit of hop bitterness in the mostly sweet finish.

on cask at rattle n hum. poured a nice hazy orange. the cask really brought out the aromas and flavors in this one. Sweet and very smooth for the alcohol level

80th rating of CCB. Yellowish pour. Cereal, corn, unripe stone fruit both in the aroma and flavor.

Swingtop thanks to David. Pours a clear caramel color with a large white head. The aroma is sweet corn, alcohol, caramel, sugars. The flavor is a hot beast; grainy, sweet sugars, caramel, fruity, dry, a lot of sugarcane-like sweetness, very warm. Decent, a bit rough around the edges, something of a strong E-European lager slides in at the finish.

Booze. Apples. Corn? Some vanilla. A dust of cinnamon. A boatload of booze. At least Genny doesn’t make me feel like a hardened alcoholic.