Cigar City Humidor Series Jai Alai Cedar Aged India Pale Ale

Brewed by Cigar City Brewing
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Tampa, Florida USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle, pours orange with medium head, looks nice. Aroma is hoppy with citrus, tropical fruits, saw dust, candied orange peels and some yeasty spice. Taste is citrus, grape, pine apple, some vanilla and sutle woodyness. Medium body, soft carbon. Really nice, well balanced between the spicyness, woodyness and the hop flavours. Complex and maybe one of the most intersesting IPAs ive had.

Bottle. Hazy orange/amber with a medium white head. Fresh aroma of hops, wood and something really special (cedar?). The taste was also good, refreshing with quite a lot of hops and fruit. Long and bitter finish.

pours amber with medium head. aromas of grape, citrus, some brown sugar. full bodied with a medium bitter aftertaste. very nice tastes of hoppy flavors. I like the bitterness combined with the citrusy fruits. A very good well balanced IPA

Ar: fruity, grapefruit, pine, resin, extremely distinct notes of the cedar, floral and peppery. Sweet malts and citrus in the background, slightly warming finish. Ap: hazy golden/amber colour, small white head. F: big bite, cedar that blends well with the hop punch. Grapefruit, pine, resin, gin, citrus, warming and peppery finish. Looong lingering bitterness. Extremely complex and layered. M: average. T: definately a very high class brew.

Les arômes annoncent un mariage unique, les agrumes sucrés se mélangent au parfum d’une shop à cigar. Le cèdre et son côté poivré donne vraiment un caractère complexe et complémentaire mais n’enlève rien à la buvabilité morbide de la Jai Alai.

UPDATED: APR 1, 2012 290311: Cloudy orange color with fine off-white head. Fantastic scent of cedar and tobacco, like coming into a tobacco shop. The taste is again dominated by the wonderful wood flavor. Extremely exciting and different IPA. Perfectly matched..

Bottle. Deep golden-orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is cedar wood, malt, hop. Flavour is cedar wood, malt, citrus, hop, caramel. Bitter finish. Full body. Stange nice beer.

From notes. First reviewed 7/30/2011. Poured from a 750 mL bottle into a tulip. This pours a very interesting color - a murky brownish orange color in the middle of the glass with a bright tangerine color at the edges. A very lively off-white head forms on top and leaves a lot of lace. Lots of woody cedar in the nose up front, very interesting. Grapefruit, other citrus, and some pine hops provide the hop presence, with some sweet bready malt in the back. The flavor has a quick sweet biscuity malt up front. Caramel covered grapefruit, some spicy pine, spicy wood notes from the cedar, and a bit of general citrus. A good amount of wood remains from the barrel aging, and a bit of mint and general spiciness oversees the whole sip. This is medium bodied, but actually a little dry toward the end, mostly from the cedar I think. Smooth creamy carbonation. This is solid, although the cedar makes this a little bit tough to drink that much.

75 cl bottle from Systembolaget. Pours a very cloudy light orange. Fairly big head, white to off-white, drops fairly quickly. Aroma is dominated by cedar wood, but there are hints of tropical fruits, resin and grapefruit. Compared to the regular Jai Alai, it’s much less hoppy on the nose. Taste is classic IPA with a touch of wood. Fairly sweet, with some malt, tropical fruits (mango, passion fruit?) to begin with, then getting increasingly hoppy and bitter through to the fairly long finish. It’s rich and creamy with low carbonation, yet surprisingly refreshing which I hadn’t expected given the cedar wood.

Amazing experience delivered from a 750ml bottle courtesy of my brother who lives in Tampa. Take the regular (highly regarded) Jai Alai and combine it with cedar spirals and you have an amazing experience. Wood dominates the nose and the taste, along with subdued hops and light malts. Wood really is the dominating factor here, and it is excellent. This is the closest experience I have ever had to eating a cedar tree.