Cigar City White Oak Jai Alai

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle. Pours hazy amber with a fluffy off white head. Thanks Hopscotch! The aroma is oak, citrus, bread, sweet malt, peach, sweet caramel and flowers. The flavour is citrus, pine, grape fruit, oak, fresh wood and sweet caramel. Weird but still very tasty mix of fresh wood and loads of hops.

Bottle shared at Ale Alpharetta. Thanks Donnie. Pours a hazy, amber orange with an off white head. This bottle may of been a bit past its prime, but that turned it into a completely different beast I imagine. Super oaky, vanills and slight citrus nose. Taste is more oak, then some oak, with some sweet malt and a tad bitterness. Quite nice and I would love to taste a fresh one.

Bottle split with mcberko. Pours murky copper with a white ring of head. Aroma of caramel malts, some molasses, tropical fruits, wood and fresh leaves. Flavour the same, very little oak, resin and earth. Nicely done, good flavour profile, lasting bitterness, good.

Pours amber with a large beige head. Aroma is malt, tropical fruit, oak, black berries and light perfume. Flavour is malt, oak, tropical fruit, black berries and light alcohol.

Pours a clear and copper beer with a white head. The aroma is malt, caramel, dried fruit, oak and blackcurrant. The flavor follows the nose. The palate is bitterness and sweetness. Overall a good and complex beer.

Amber gold colour, white head. Aroma of apple sauce, caramel, mint, spices and wood, with a hoppy background. Flavour quite bitter hops, apple, malts, hops, quite fresh but still noticeable wood tones. Hoppy finish with some light wood tones. Nice.
(From 35cL bottle shared @ ZZT3, Oirschot. Bottle from trade with mikem409, thanks, my friend!)

33cl bottle @ ZZT III. Courtesy of Martinus. Clear orange color, small white to off-white head that becomes a white lacing quickly. Smell hops, pine, some sweetness. Taste pine, hops, some wine indeed. Soft mouthfeel, bitter finish, medium body.

Bottle thx to martinus@zzt3. Slightly hazy orange colour with a lacing white head. Smells caramel, wood, hoppy. Tastes sweet, hoppy, deep, barley wine. Sticky palate, thick, sweet. Little carbo. Nice one.

Bottle thanks to newcigarz! Dark hazy orange pour, light amount of lasting carbonation and a syrupy cask hop aroma. Flavor is slick and sweet hops melded with nice white oak flavor and woody dryness all the way through. Very good, cask like flavor out of a bottle!

From notes. First reviewed 1/31/2011. Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a pint glass. Out of the bottle this pours a cloudy tangerine color with a great off-white head. The head retains nicely and leaves a variable web of lacing down the sides of the glass. The aroma is just perfect. The white oak really comes through nicely. White oak, pineapple, white grapefruit, tangerine, orange blossoms, and some sweet pale and caramel malt in the background. Sweet honey and pale malt up front sets the table for the hops. Juicy pineapple, grapefruit, and tangerine flavors burst onto my palate. The white oak really helps to smooth all of the flavors out. White Oak Jai Alai shares the mouthfeel characteristics with its base beer. Smooth and creamy, even buttery, it is very juicy up front and gradually dries out toward the end. A light stickiness is present throughout and lingers after the finish. The hoppy bitterness pulls on the taste buds a little bit. I absolutely loved the effect the White Oak had on the original beer. It added new depth and a flavor profile I am not really familiar with. Maybe the novelty will wear off after trying it a few more times, but for right now, this is one of my favorite IPA’s.

Draft at cigar city, golden orange slightly hazed pour. Oaky aroma, pineapple notes. Tanning lotion, coconut, piña colada, oak notes. Very flavorful and balanced. Very good