Caffè Americano Double Stout
Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
8.08
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Bold, strong and dark, traditional caffe americano is made by adding water to espresso. Bold, strong, and dark, Cigar City Brewing’s Caffe Americano is made by adding vanilla and Tampa-roasted espresso beans to a formidable Double Stout base.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
From a bomber. Pours black with a tan head. Aromas of roast coffee. Flavors are sweet dark chocolate and prunes with bitter roast notes. Smooth and luscious on the palate.
Tried
on 17 Oct 2019
at 23:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
650ml bottle. Jet black colour with average, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, tan head. Rather cautious, roasty, chocolately, dark malty and minimally fruity aroma, notes of dark chocolate, coffee, fruity coffee beans, some cocoa and vanilla, whiffs of alcohol. Taste is roasty, chocolately dark malty, moderately bitter notes of coffee, mocha, dark chocolate, some vanilla, a touch of cocoa, subtle sweetness with a honey touch, rather explicit alcohol presence. Oily to viscous texture, super soft, smooth, silky and minimally sticky palate, gentle carbonation. Very well crafted, no doubt - sadly I can't take too much shine to the sort of coffee nor vanilla used here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2019
at 19:22
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Big and black with a light brown head that goes whispy and creamy. Coffee aroma is dominant and like most coffee additive brews it’s the smell of old coffee grounds rather than a steaming cup that’s dominant. The somewhat dubious nature of that is tempered though by the rich vanilla and chocolate notes that linger in the background. Taste is bittersweet, roasted and bitterer at the end with lingering coffee and chocolate. Heavy, oily body, mild carbonation. Overall, quite nice, although by no means the top of its class. A nice one.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2019
at 17:13
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sample at MBCC2019 First Session, Copenhagen. Colour is dark brown with small brownish head. Coffee, dark chocolate and roasted malts. Greatness.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2019
at 09:37
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
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Bottle. Pours pitch black, with a short lived creamy, mocha head. Aroma is roasted malts with bread, lactose and coffee. Creamy body, with soft to average carbonation. Flavour is roasted malts with bread, coffee, tobacco and dark fruits with raisins and prunes, as well as lactose, vanilla, liquorice and minerals.
Bottle. Pours pitch black, with a short lived creamy, mocha head. Aroma is roasted malts with bread, lactose and coffee. Creamy body, with soft to average carbonation. Flavour is roasted malts with bread, coffee, tobacco and dark fruits with raisins and prunes, as well as lactose, vanilla, liquorice and minerals.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2019
at 19:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
(tap) clear, bright, very dark brown colour with a small brown head; aroma of crushed weeds, then molasses; rich, balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jul 2019
at 23:58
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at tasting. Aroma of earthy vanilla, chocolate, coffee bean, caramel, licorice and malt. Taste has smooth earthy coffee, caramel, earthy vanilla, licorice, roasted malt and some booze. Nice classic stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2019
at 18:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
How: Draught.
Where: MBCC 2019.
Appearance: Black colour with a beige head.
Aroma: Chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, vanilla, alcohol.
Body: Full body, low carbonation.
Flavour:
Where: MBCC 2019.
Appearance: Black colour with a beige head.
Aroma: Chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, vanilla, alcohol.
Body: Full body, low carbonation.
Flavour:
Tried
on 19 Jun 2019
at 18:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Good, but on the sweet side, and an unexpected salted butter heaviness underlining the massive espresso back end. Dark chocolate, anise, char, raisin, and molasses add solid stout base, but the brininess popping up on the finish is...weird, adding a melted butter slant to an otherwise pretty good coffee stout. Not bad, but one glass is plenty.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2019
at 02:48
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Sample @ MBCC 2019, yellow session. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are rich roast malt, chocolate, coffee, caramel and has a nice coffee finish. Full bodied.
Tried
on 10 Jun 2019
at 18:42