Invasion
Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
7.08
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The people of Tampa Bay have fallen prey to a pirate invasion annually for well over 100 years. After more than a century of failing to repel these seafaring raiders in their anachronistic wooden ships and despite access to modern sea, land and air arsenals that ostensibly should make short work of wind powered vessels equipped with naught but cast iron cannons and raging scurvy, it occurred to the folks of Cigar City Brewing that if you can’t beat them, start saying “Arrrr Matey!” We have brewed Invasion Pale Ale, a citrusy, tropical and low-alcohol session beer brewed for those long days of marauding, pillaging and pirating. Cheers!
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Well I picked up a sixer of this in cans to take to band practice and share, but then one of the guys took sick and had to cancel. Woe is me to have to drink it all by myself, ha. Well. Pale amber color, light head. Big resiny citrus hop nose. Dry, so dry. Very much in the west coast style, all hop juice and resin, and dry cracker malt. Not so much my style actually. Good enough. Also, I still have to chuckle sometimes about how beers like this are what we expect from pale ales now, when 15 years ago this would have been one of the hoppiest IPAs on the market.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jun 2014
at 04:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at Craig’s. Pours hazy golden, light pine, citrus and caramel, dry toffee.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jun 2014
at 12:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
23.05.2014, 0,35l can shared with Palme @ Café Sara:
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is mild and fresh grassy, sap, leafs, lawn, pine needles, bark, hops, dried tropical fruits, hay. Taste is mild grassy, leafs, lawn, pine needles, bark, sap, moss, cardboard, hay, citrus peel, hop pellets. Medium to longlasting bitterness, dry mouthfeel. Nice enough.
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is mild and fresh grassy, sap, leafs, lawn, pine needles, bark, hops, dried tropical fruits, hay. Taste is mild grassy, leafs, lawn, pine needles, bark, sap, moss, cardboard, hay, citrus peel, hop pellets. Medium to longlasting bitterness, dry mouthfeel. Nice enough.
Tried
from Can
on 31 May 2014
at 09:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can, at Schouskjelleren. An almost clear one, golden in color and with a small, off-white head on top. The aroma has pine cones, citrus, hop pellets and some maltyness. It has a mellow bitterness on the palate, with hop pellets, pine cones and citrus peel, the maltyness is left in the back. Medium body and a pleasant carbonation level. Piney finish with hop pellets. A quenching and tasteful pale ale. 140501
Tried
from Can
on 22 May 2014
at 11:14
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
[5/1/14] Draught at Mikkeller & Friends in Copenhagen. Hazy golden. Lovely hoppy aroma full of tropical fruits and some citrus. Flavor has mild maltiness, fruity hops and a bitter finish. Medium-bodied. Good.
Tried
on 15 May 2014
at 02:41
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at Rustico Ballston. Pours a clear amber color with a thin creamy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of citrus, floral hops, pale malts. The taste is citrus, herbal, tropical hops, pale malt. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 May 2014
at 21:38
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
4oz draft at Rustico Ballston. Poured a golden yellow color with a medium sized off-white head. Aroma was notes of citrus, tropical juicy character and a touch of pine. Flavor was refreshing, easy to drink tropical notes, citrus. Perhaps not memorable overall, but something worth checking out if you want something without pretense.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 May 2014
at 07:38
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Rustico Ballston. Pours a resiny golden yellow with off-white head. Aromas of floral, citrus. Tasting notes of floral and herbal notes, citrus, pine. Medium body with a dry finish. Medium carbonation, semi-juicy mouthfeel.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 May 2014
at 21:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft @ Mikkeller & Friends, Copenhagen. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a white head. Has a fruity peachy hoppy aroma. Fruity malty peachy hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty peachy hoppy citrus finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 May 2014
at 07:49