Capricho Oscuro (Batch 3)
Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Special Out of Production|
Score
7.19
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A blend of Bolita Double Nut Brown Ale, Improvisacion, and Big Sound Scotch Ale aged in a Maker’s Mark bourbon barrel.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
bottle #415/480, pours dark brown with a thin light tan head. Aroma is big with bourbon notes and a oaky vanilla note. Huge malt character, carmel, chocolate. It’s all tied together with a big fresh bourbon flavor that lingers into some wood notes. Really nice brew, kind of hot, I can see this mellowing out nicely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2009
at 15:52
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours deep amber with thin tan head. The aroma is sweet malts, dark fruitiness, bourbon, oak and some boozy heat. The taste is complex with bourbon and oak heading into sweet malts, molasses and sweet nuttiness. Also running above these flavors are notes of bourbon alcohol heat and hops blending together. Toward the finish the barrel notes overtake the once full complexity of roasty malt notes of this blended beer. Upon further samplings the mix of nuttiness, roasty malts, bourbon and oak create an interesting sensation that becomes a bit too bourbony for me into the finish.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2009
at 19:12