Cigar City Mango India Pale Ale

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Tap at Rattle N Hum. Another fairly muddy orange pour. The nose is a bit tropical and slightly sweet. Lots of bright mango character and bright tropical hoppiness. It is subtly different from the papaya (less vegetal) but it’s pretty similar overall.

Cigar City takes NYC event at Rattle ’N’ Hum. On cask. The fruit is in there, it looks great with a big head for a cask. Above average mouthfeel. Cedar in there. Really hoppy.

Draft. Pours an amber and copper toned body with a light white head. Hoppy with citrus and i suppose mango tones, dry grass y body with some light pine and a dry bittering grass y finish. A nice dry ipa.

Tap at RnH. Pours a hazed cloudy peachy orange with a thinning head. Aroma is green mango slight vegetal, citrus, orange juice, earth. Flavor is earth dank hops, mint, then more juicy mango puree, juicy amarillo fruitiness and dusty earth with a muddled finish. Ok.

From growler pouring copper with gold edges and modest white head. The aroma is full of sweet tropical fruit notes with lesser amounts of sharp citrus hops, spicy hops and a sweet malt backbone. The taste has a pleasing spicy to near pine to citrus hop bite quickly followed by late boil addition flavor hops and a thin layer of sweet tropical fruitiness. I have to say the last batch of Jai Alai was very good. The hops pop with bitter and flavor hop balance and are held up firmly by a sweet maltiness. This is the hoppiness I really enjoy. Excellent improvement here Wayne. I would be interested to see the Mango treatment with more contact time. As it is now the Jai Alai yumminess swallows up the Mango leaving only tasty hints here and there.

growler. pours lightly hazy medium amber with gold at the edges. loose white head. mild mango and peach nose. creamy medium body with fizzy carb. lots of caramel, biscuit, and tons of pine on the mid palate, but not much mango. lingering bitter finish.

On cask at Rattle N Hum for their Cigar City event. Pours a milky browned amber. Mango, musky citrus hops, vanilla. Smooth, medium bodied, mango, sweet vanilla. Finishes with some more sweet citrus, and a light hop bitterness.

Entering old rates. Draft @ CCB Fruit in the Room 2010. Profile type de la Jai Alai le tout avec un de mes fruits exotiques préférés. Mangue est présente sans être pour cela trop au top. Un bon traitement de cette bière qui montre encore une fois son côté versatile pour le côté tropical. La mangue n’est certainement pas trop en avant et reste discrète et juste assez pour laisser le profile IPA faire son effet.

Cask at RnH. Pours hazy orange with a white head. The aroma has fresh fruity hops and citrus. The flavor brings a cool tropical fruity sweetness, citric hops, and some sweet malts. Pretty good, but nowhere near as good as the Papaya IPA.

Growler, courtesy dchmela. Pours a clear, dark golden-amber hue with a small, foamy, ivory colored head. A sudsy wash leaves behind jagged flares of lacing. As expected, the nose is majorly tropical, showing bright notes of mango, grapefruit, and orange, along with a good amount of hop resin, all over a malt base of sweet toffee and toasted bread. Flavors follow suit, showing great balance between the crisp, juicy, mango and citrus hop flavors and the sweet, slightly buttery toffee. It might be a little sweeter than the base Jai Alai IPA, but it delves deeper with its fruit profile. The palate is medium-plus in heft, balanced in carbonation, and smooth. It’s a shade on the wet side for how I like my IPA’s, but it’s a negligible flaw. Delicious stuff.