Cigar City Tropical White Oak IPA

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Lightly hazy dark golden with a small, white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of floral hops, light pine, citrus, toast, and tropical fruits. Taste of citrus, light toffee, oak, citrus, tropical fruits, and a grapefruit finish.

Nice hoppy citurs aroma. Golden in color and white head. A solid citrus, piney IPA. Lighter bodied.

One of the best beers I have ever had, thank you Green Room in Jacksonville Beach! This stuff is awesome, but not surprised its from Cigar City. I will try all their beers just too see if they can match this!!!

Tap at FITR. Pours a light copper with a thick off white head. Peppery, oak, tropical fruity hops in the aroma. The pepper notes come right out in the taste, but segues into loads of tropical fruit hop notes and balanced well with the smooth malt body. Finishes with a nice pepper spiciness.

On draft for Fruit in the Room, poured a hazy golden orange with little head. Aromas of tropical fruits, mango, pieapple, oak, and hops. Tasted like the white oak ipa with tropical fruit. Delivered what it promised.

Draft. Pours a hazy golden body with a bubbly head. Nice hoppy tones, citrus and grass y notes. Light pineapple sweetness really compliments the spicy wood tones quite well. Grapefruit and a fresh wooden undertone. Grass bitterness and a hint of apricots to finish. Great stuff.

On draft at the Fruit in the Room fest. This one poured a hazy, golden orange color and topped by a small off white head of foam that settles quickly to a thin film. Some spotty lacing clings to the glass. The aroma is really nice showing lots of tropical fruits in the form of pineapple, tangerine, grapefruit, oranges, and mangos. The tropical fruits are complimented nicely by the spicy white oak and notes of toasted coconut. Toasted toffee forms the malt base, while citrus hops add ample bitterness on the back end. The flavor follows with mangos, tangerine, grapefruit, and oranges followed by toasted coconut, spicy white oak, and hints of vanilla that adds some nice smoothness. The citrus hops add ample bitterness on the back end while the spicy oak plays right along with the hops. The white oak adds some nice depth to all the tropical fruit flavors. Medium bodied with balanced carbonation and smooth on the palate leading to a lengthy bitter sweet finish. I really enjoyed this treatment. Good stuff here.

Tap at Blind Tiger. Pours a hazed light amber with a nice fluffy white head. Aorma is fruity, tropical notes, with some white oak, but the juiciness definitely detracts from the oak, which is a good thing- not as much vanilla oak, or butter, just more of a smooth woodiness which compliments the tropical fruit juices pretty well surprisingly. Flavor is light vanlill, toasted oak, wood, amarillo hops, mango, guava, passionfruit and even pineapple, some earth, fruit loops cereal, grain, light dms, some earth in the finish, but smooth and medium bitterness in the end. Good.

Tap at Blind Tiger. Hazy amber pour. Aroma is odd because I like the grapefruit that I’m getting, but for whatever reason I get a touch of pickle juice. I despise pickles. Unfortunately I get a bit of pickle juice in the flavor too. I’m too distracted to get anything else. There is some nice hoppiness, but I can’t get beyond this one little thing.

On tap at the Blind Tiger during their Cigar City event. Pours a very lightly hazed orange with a medium sized white head. Juniper, resinous, musky and dank smelling. Big candied hop flavors, sweet malt. Long grapefruit on the finish.

Thanks Josh for sharing this growler. Poured an amber color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of woodiness, toasty, floral, earthy, and tropical fruitiness. Tastes of the same fruitiness, caramel, vanilla, wood, and coconut.