Cigar City Big Sound Scotch Ale - Bourbon Barrel-aged

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

Serve in Thistle

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Bottle 75cl.
Clear dark brown color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, moderate alcoholc - bourbon, vanilla. Flavor is light heavyy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20090922]

Bottled 1/246. A murky amber beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, over ripe fruits, bourbon, and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of caramel, alcohol, and a bit of wood, leading to a dry alcoholic finish where the wood lingers. The alcohol burns in the mouth. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

75 cL bottle, 1/246. Pours cloudy to hazy dark orange with a small tan head. Aroma is solid alcohol and roasted malt aroma. Sweet, caramelish and mild yeasty flavoured. Light phenolic. Mild fruity and roasted malty flavoured into the far finish. Smooth bourbon note into the far finish.

Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of Retorp. Bottle # 1/246. Hazy orangey golden with a small, off-white head. Distinct aroma of bourbon and ashes. Solid body, sweet caramel, nuts and ashes, vaguely peaty. Hardly any bitterness in the finish, but warming alcohol and Bourbon. Certainly appears stonger than 8.5%. 220909

Bottled@PBF2010 Ruby amber colour, small brown head. Aroma is caramel, toffee, wood, vanilla, some mild notes of fudge as well. Flavour is quite wooden, some fudge and mild notes of alcohol. A bit stinging, otherwise nice.

Bottle at Papsø. Hazy red brown coloured with a small beige head. Sweet aroma of caramel, dried fruits, bourbon and vanilla with notes of oak. Sweet flavour of caramel, dried fruits, vanilla, bourbon and oak with notes of alcohol. Sweet and alcoholic finish. The alcohol is too dominating.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown almost black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty woody spicy chocolate aroma. Roasted malty woody chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty woody chocolate finish.

Hazy red brown color; small head. Strong vanilla oak aroma, old wood. Medium body strength, good caramel flavor, with some residual sweetness and light smoke touch; lightly nutty too, mostly in the final; the alcohol gives a warming feeling. Good.

(750ml bottle, courtesy of ericandersnavy) Pours a cloudy amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of peat, wood, bourbon, caramel, and vanilla. Flavor of oak, peat, caramel malt, earth, and roastiness with a dry finish.

Bottle (2009 - 69/246) at home - Tasting. Cloudy red/brown - offwhite head. Bourbon, licorice, fruity, roasted, sharpness, coconut, dried fruits, high malty, nice balance.