Cigar City Dos Costas Oeste - Grapefruit Wood

Brewed by Cigar City Brewing
Style: Saison
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Tulip

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On tap at CCB. Light hazy copper no head. Sweet caramel light tart fruit and candied wood. Sweet malt candy wood grapefruit tart. Drinkable but a bit boozy.

On tap at ccb. Citrus, grapefruit. Sweet and delicious. Light and low bitterness like you’d find in a peel of a grapefruit.

At CCB on Hunahpu Eve. Pours pinkish orange with one finger head. Smells like grapefruit juice and sugar with some yeast funk. Taste is sweet with sligght tartness. Grapefruit, mango, funky yeast finish. Light mouthfeel with low to medium carbonation. Very nice and very flavorful saison.

Bottle at home ...ost 2/3 of the bottle to a GUSH ... what a mess... light hazy amber ... thin white head ... soft funky nose... sweet fruits ... juicy fruits ... oraneg and grapefruit ... soft funk ... juicy fruits ...

Bottle. Gusher. Hazy pale golden woth small ring of white head. Woody peppery aroma, some slight grapefruit citrus. Tast of grapefruit, pineapple, belgian yeast. Quite sweet and sticky. Nice

9th June 2012
Very hazy gold beer, decent white head. Smooth palate, airy and a little soft. Mild carbonation. Sweet and mild grapefruit. Whisper of wood. Touch of mint. Smooth, unusual and well joined up beer. Very very drinkable.

Tasty and drinkable but a little sweet. More like a Belgian blonde than a saison. The grapefruit is nice.

Bottle from Hopscotch and poured quickly in a Duvel snifter: Yep a gusher here as well but sort of knew about so I was ready and only lost a wee bit of beer. Cloudy golden hue with the expected initial huge head but surprisingly it faded pretty quickly even in the etched glass. Good but not great lace. The aroma has notes of orange, melon and mango, some grapefruit and pear along with grassy herbal hops. A slight note of pils and aromatic hops, very faint Saison like esters from the yeast. Ginger and just a touch of coriander. The taste is highly fruity and grainy with a moderate tannic wood finish. Herbal bitterness, flowery and some aspirin like notes. You do get some alcohol as it warms but not overpowering. Yes there is a slight sourness and ginger twang to this as well that seems quite Orval-ish. The mouth feel is lightly sprite and sharp with a light medicinal tone. Overall it is quite drinkable but must say my least favorite of the three wood treatment of the Dos Costas Oeste I have had. The aspirin and sour-y notes have a lot to do with that.

750mL bottle, sent from LateStart (thanks Jordan). Bottle gushes like I’ve never seen a gusher before, losing ¼ of the bottle – WTF, absolutely ridiculous – pours a hazy orange with a large white head. Aroma of ban-daids, grapefruit, citrus and orange peel. Flavour of band-aids, orange peel, citrus and grapefruit. Doesn’t have the vegetal qualities of the lemon wood one, but it also seems infected. What the hell are they thinking here – this is all over the place. Total crap.

I degassed this one slowly after reading some rates. Oily dark yellow pour with frothy white head. Complex flowery aroma. Sweet and perfumy. Some wood and leather. The flavor is sweet and complex, following the aroma.’ Very nice Saison.