Opal
Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular|
Score
7.60
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8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours slightly hazy reddish mahogany with a small tan head that dissipates fairly quickly leaving a bit of lacing. Aroma is rich and malty, vanilla, bourbon dates, raisins, toffee, oak tannin. Flavor is quite sweet and light plus bitter, rich and decadent. Full body, soft mouthfeel. Kind of hot overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2020
at 18:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thanks to Hamirubi! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBSG17. Dark amber brown, tanned head. Nose is herbal cacao, mocha, far too herbal, the dry hopping? Taste is chocolate, cacao, dark fruit, surprisingly boozy, cacao. Thick, far too herbal bitter. Good but not as good as expected & rather different from what I expected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2017
at 04:10
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Imported from my RateBeer account as Cigar City Opal (by Cigar City Brewing (CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 18/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5
26/VIII/17 - 75cl bottle @ RBBSG17 - BB: n/a (2017-1364) Thanks to Hamirubi for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy irregular beige head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of chocolate, some mocha, lots of coffee, heavy stuff, some caramel. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: pretty sweet start, bit alcoholic, roasted, vanilla, chocolate. Aftertaste: alcoholic, lots of dark chocolate, caramel, vanilla, pretty sweet.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 18/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5
26/VIII/17 - 75cl bottle @ RBBSG17 - BB: n/a (2017-1364) Thanks to Hamirubi for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy irregular beige head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of chocolate, some mocha, lots of coffee, heavy stuff, some caramel. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: pretty sweet start, bit alcoholic, roasted, vanilla, chocolate. Aftertaste: alcoholic, lots of dark chocolate, caramel, vanilla, pretty sweet.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Aug 2017
at 18:06
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sampled @ RBBSG 2017. Dark brown color, medium to full sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, brown malts, brown sugar, heavy body and carbonation. . I’m dead.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2017
at 17:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750mL bottle pours with a dark body that supports a dark tan head of foam. The aroma offers up malts blended with jammy grape must and then lighter notes of booze, dates and bourbon. The taste delivers sweet malts, brown sugar dusted prunes and then a bit of molasses, dates and ripe cherries. Toward the finish modest smooth sweet bourbon comes to the surface to add a little more depth to counter the Old Ale sweetness. A bit of earthy tobacco would pull this right on track.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2017
at 23:51
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to Rob. Pours a dark brown with small beige had that lasts. The aroma is toffee, bourbon, wood. Thick, chewy, caramel, bourbon, very sweet, really nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2016
at 21:48