Cigar City Brewing Charleywine Ale

Charleywine Ale

 

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

Collab with: Magnanimous Brewing
  Barley Wine - Barley Regular
Score
7.57
ABV: 14.2% IBU: 17 Ticks: 8
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8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Ambery brown colour with a tiny head. Aroma is chocolate syrup, some rye, mild toasted tones with a bit of wood and some alcohol sweetness. Flavour is caramel, some chocolate syrup, mild toasted tones with some slight alcohol and a bit spicy and wooden elements too.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Nov 2025 at 18:15


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Bottled. Black, small head. Woody treacle aroma. Sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Treacle, licorice, port and whiskey. Really woody with coffee and syrup. Warming bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2025 at 20:28


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Bottle 500ml. Gold wax @ [ M&M+M Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏠🇩🇰 💻👀 🍂🍁 ☁️☂️ [ As Cigar City Charleywine Ale ]. ABV: (14.2)%. [ Bottle #565/2000 ] [20251003]. 8/3/9/4/-18

Tried from Bottle on 03 Oct 2025 at 12:15


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

2021 500mL bottle 625/2000, shared by TJ on 5/7/23. Big ol whiskey and quite a bit of apple brandy. Very spicey, peppery, fruity. Very malty as well. Almost port-like. Vanilla, caramel, grape, apple, black pepper. It's big, it's sweet, it's rather forceful. Interesting barrel character, but just too much of all of it for me personally.

Tried from Bottle on 07 May 2023 at 14:55


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

625/2000 aroma is toffee, dark fruit, nice barrel treatment. Taste is smooth, ABV is hidden. Nice heer as it warms in the glass. --- Beer merged from original tick of Charleywine on 07 May 2023 at 13:33 - Score: 8. Original review text: 625/2000 aroma is toffee, dark fruit, nice barrel treatment. Taste is smooth, ABV is hidden. Nice heer as it warms in the glass.

Tried on 06 May 2023 at 22:28


8.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

500 ml bottle. 2021 Numbered bottle shared by Chalumeaux. Thank you TJ!! Aroma shows me spices, black pepper, soft brandy, toffee. Flavor is a reflection of the aroma. Mild alcohol in the finish but the flavor is insanely great! Awesome barrel treatments.

Tried from Bottle on 06 May 2023 at 22:25


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

bottle - sampled at Tampa Bay Beer Festival. This is so terrific - wish i had more than a few ounces. Hope to get my hand on another.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2023 at 14:08


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

I had two bottles of this and they were quite different. This review is for the better one. Pours clear mahogany, small beige head, dissipates slowly, good lacing. Aroma is bourbon, brown sugar, vanilla, cocoa. Full sweet, light plus bitter. Medium body.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Jul 2021 at 18:30