Cigar City Campeador - Rurik

Formerly brewed at Cigar City Brewing
Style: American Strong Ale
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

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Bottle. Black pour with a moderately thick dark tan head. Aroma is rich oak and dates, some alcohol, mild black pepper. Nice mix of roast, ash, pepper, and mild tannins on the taste. Alcohol is in check. Another great Campeador.

Bottle at Maltzillas World Cup 2010 tasting. Pours dark brown/black with thin tan head. Aromas of roasted malts, bourbon, hops, vanilla and oak. Slightly sweet flavor with a good dose of hops and bourbon with roasted malts, chocolate, vanilla and wood. Medium to full body with minimal carbonation. Big thanks to Chris for cracking open this one.

It has a rich, thick brown coffee color with a big creamy bubbly cocoa head. The flavor is silky smooth with the imperial stout flavors up front and settling smoothly into the old ale flavor which ends nicely on the palate.

Couple bottles, thanks to Solan. Pours black, not nearly as viscous as the stouts but still oily and creamy. A little thinner than the stouts. Aroma is fairly hoppy with bourbon and vanilla. The "Irish Coffee" comparison from Hopscotch is pretty right on. The hops provide a slight tanginess which will get more sweet and smooth with age. I’d give it a couple months and it will rate even higher. Large malt profile looms in the background. Basically, a barrel ages malt and hop bomb at this point in time. Full of flavor and very good. Another well-done brew.

A big rich imperial stout (well its blended with others but the impy character dominates). Choc-caramel sweetness, some hot alcohol. A touch acrid, salty, minerally, roasty finish. I enjoyed it but really didn’t find it to be the most original or daring, it was a bit like a hundred other really good impies or strong ales.

Bottle... This beer rocks!… Dark brown (nearly black) ale with a small, creamy, khaki head. Decent retention. The nose is a swirl of malty mocha, vanilla, oak, leather and pouch tobacco. Full-bodied with a silken mouthfeel and tingly carbonation. A hot, but nice and soothing, mélange of caramel, chocolate and coffee sweetness flanked by medium hop and alcohol bitterness. Tastes a bit like an Irish coffee… finishes much the same. Buy a few and lay ‘em down a little while. World class beer!