Cigar City Humidor Series Gruit

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

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750 ml bottle. Pours a clear to slightly hazy orange amber color with a small white head. The aroma has cedar, some fruity notes, green peppercorn, herbal notes with some sweetness. The flavor is drier and a bit less fruity than the nose indicates, cedar, herbal, tart berries, earthy with some general malts as a base. Interesting, but not something I would do very often.

Pours a copper gold with no head. Aroma of cedar and that's all I'm getting. Taste is tart, citrusy and cedar. Very interesting, not bad ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Batch 2010-02. Pours a hazy golden orange from the bottle with thin, lacy white head. Aroma of sour fruit and yeast. Taste is like an aged belgian sour, tart and ballsy. Great beer.

Pours orange. Nose is spice cedar, wood, flowers, various spice, herb. Flavor is spices, tartness, light malts, aromatic cedars, various herbal qualities. Dry, medium light body. Carbonation is mildly fizzy.

Aroma: sour apple, spices, big cedar note, earthy. Hazy amber, white head with decent lacing. Flavor: more sour apple, lemon, fairly tart, spices, plenty of cedar but not overwhelming, some toasty malt. Medium body, medium-high carbonation. Interesting brew, the cedar masks the other flavors and aromas somewhat, but this is pretty tasty.

This poured a cloudy darker yellow color with a white head. Aroma was lots and lots of cedar, some sour rotten apples, and some herbal notes. Flavor was all over the place,s omewhat tart and fruity, some tomato juice followed by lots of cedar. I wasn’t a huge fan of this, but it gets points for being complex and different.

Date: May 28, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Bhalter Summersalter
Appearance: hazy orange fine off white head
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, spicy and herbal
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, balancing spicyness, light earthyness, long bitter finish
Overall: the herbal characteris nice but I need more than one hop in a beer

Date: July 30, 2010
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Aroma: picking up a lot more of the cedar in the aroma to go along with the spicyness
Flavor: light tartness showing up in the flavor

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

Bottle:   Dirty amber, a bit cloudy, large white head, frothy, with nice lacing.   Oh wow, thats one nose, and one nose only... CEDAR!   Oddly enough, it works.   Perhaps some minor candied citrus peel as well.   Not as cedary on the tongue, thankfully, but wow does this seem like I am eating someones deck.   Mind you, this deck is pretty tasty!   Moderate to full body and mouthfeel.   Nice malt base overall, some candied citrus peel, but boy does that cedar dominate.   Glad I shared this with others as a whole bottle may be difficult.

bottle... medium gold with a light orange tint, a bit cloudy, white head, a bit watery.... this smells shockingly excellent, the base has muted the cedar excellently, perfectly nails a cedar cigar box, a bit of tobacco, with cedar, I could smell this all day... the taste brings about the base gruit beer, juniper on the front, pine needles, smooth cedar finish... I couldn’t drink the whole bottle, but its so unique and fascinating this is a must try

Pour is a heady hazy yellow. smell is white pepper sour grapefruit rinds. Taste is wow. Like eating a bowl of cedar smoked salted grapefruit rinds.