Cigar City Brewing Humidor Series: India Pale Ale

Humidor Series: India Pale Ale

 

Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Flavoured Regular
Score
7.73
ABV: 7.5% IBU: 65 Ticks: 130
This unique IPA shares all the tropical and citrus flavors of our Jai Alai IPA but with an added dimension imparted by Spanish cedar, the same wood used to make cigar humidors. Wood from the Cedrela odorata tree is added post-fermentation to impart notes of sandalwood and cracked black pepper, adding depth of flavor and accentuating the IPA’s moderate bitterness.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled. Poured a dark orangish with foamy- form-keeping head. Taste of wood, resin, pine flowers etc.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:00


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can. Copper in color with an almost orange hue when held up to the light. A nice meeium head. Aroma was grapefruit and spruce. Taste was a slight sweet citrus up front, grapefruit and spruce in the middle with a bitter finish.

Tried from Can on 10 Mar 2025 at 05:03


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Huge aroma of fresh cedar and juniper. Like grabbing a handfull of fresh spring growth from a cedar shrub. As i dive in i notice lots of citrus hops, and some light honey. The flavor is a big dose of cedar and grapefruit. A very bitter pithy grapefruit. Intense bitter finish, great stuff.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:29


7

Tried from Draft on 21 Jul 2020 at 20:12


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draught @ Albion. Clear dark amber-copper with largish foamy beige head, faint caramel aroma, adequate carbonation, bitter resinous caramel taste with faint woodsy flavor, thin body, long medium bitter finish. Very solid brew.

Tried on 25 Jan 2020 at 20:52


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

7-4-7-3-14 Can. Pours hazy, dark orange, with a creamy, off white head. Aroma is piney hops with citrusy notes of orange peel and marmelade, as well as notes of wood, spices and heather. Creamy body, with soft to average carbonation. Flavour is bitter hops with pine and juniper, as well as notes of wood and earthy minerals.

Tried from Can on 10 Nov 2019 at 11:22


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Early rating-Florida trip

Tried on 07 Nov 2019 at 20:27


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Fluffy off white head stayed on a hazy copper coloured still body. Well balanced aroma of malts, sweet hops & spices. Medium bodied, creamy over the palate with an effervescent back & clean dry aft. Bitter pine, pith, pale malt, spices, earth & caramel tastes with a peppery finish.

Tried on 31 Oct 2019 at 22:10


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Can pour into nonic pint glass from Total Wine & More, Burlington. Appearance is lightly hazy (fine white particulates) amber-orange with nice sparkle, finger width off-white head with poor retention and trace soapy lacing. Aroma is heavy cedar dominating mildly fruity hops and base malts. Taste is heavy cedar as aroma dominating faint fruit, mild bitterness and cracker. Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth, slightly slippery texture, soft carbonation, mild pleasant alcohol warmth and finish as taste. Overall, not sure why I can't get into cedar the same as pine or spruce, but there's something either a little harsh about it or the connotations of moth prevention is not as appealing. Cedar is also too strong/dominant.

Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2019 at 03:06


5

Tried from Can on 03 Oct 2019 at 21:28