Continental Drift
Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Knee Deep Brewing CompanyIPA - West Coast Regular
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Score
7.27
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Continental Drift is a collaboration between Florida’s Cigar City Brewing and California’s Knee Deep Brewing Co. For this collab, we wanted to turn the whole continent on its ear and brew a West Coast-style IPA in Florida and an East Coast-style IPA in California. This beer is unique in that it uses hops processed in four different ways: extract, pellets, whole leaf, and lupulin powder. These diverse hop formats create more hop complexity.
TASTING NOTES
Bright berry, tangerine and candied orange hop aroma is accentuated by a peachy ester quality on the nose. Bready malt flavor and moderate residual sweetness balance an assertive but tempered bitterness and stone fruit flavor.
TASTING NOTES
Bright berry, tangerine and candied orange hop aroma is accentuated by a peachy ester quality on the nose. Bready malt flavor and moderate residual sweetness balance an assertive but tempered bitterness and stone fruit flavor.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From tap at Borefts 2016. Aroma is fresh fruity hops, juicy tropical fruits, stone fruits, citrus, peach. Flavour is light sweet and nicely bitter. Body is medium. Very juicy and crisp, balanced, first class IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Feb 2025
at 15:35
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught @ 8th. BBF 2016 [ 8th Borefts Beer Festival 2016 ] @ Brouwerij de Molen, Bodegraven, Netherlands. [ As Cigar City / Knee Deep Continental Drift ].Clear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity malt, moderate hoppy, citrus, overriped fruit, old fruit, fruity hops. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, pale malt, fruity malt, hoppy, dusty, old hops. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20160923] 7-3-7-3-15
Tried
on 28 May 2017
at 04:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at RnH-West. Clear caramel pour, lots of beige lace. Skunky hops, pine, some fruity hops. Drinks fairly bitter. Lively carbonation. Clean, dry close.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2017
at 13:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
24th September 2016
Borefts VIII. Day 2. Keg. Thanks to Ruth for fetching from the Mill. Almost clear gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is light, semi dry and has reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, mildly sweet. Big skunky hops. Green hop, almost herby. Mellow orange and a trace of hop spice. Light bitterish finish. Pretty skunky!
Borefts VIII. Day 2. Keg. Thanks to Ruth for fetching from the Mill. Almost clear gold beer, tidy pale cream colour head. Palate is light, semi dry and has reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, mildly sweet. Big skunky hops. Green hop, almost herby. Mellow orange and a trace of hop spice. Light bitterish finish. Pretty skunky!
Tried
on 28 Jan 2017
at 05:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Borefts Bier Festival, 2016. Pours hazy orange, medium white head. Hoppy, grassy, tropical fruit, orange, malty, bit sweetish, medium dry bitter finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2016
at 13:17
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Sample at Borefts 2016. Golden beer, small head. Aroma is citrus. Taset is the same. good ipa
Tried
on 14 Nov 2016
at 17:09
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap@Borefts 2016, Bodegraven - pours a fuzzy golden amber colour with white head. Medium sweet tropical fruity and malty aroma and taste, some caramel sweetness, some pine, grassy hoppy into the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Oct 2016
at 07:39
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
[9/23/16] Draught sample at Borefts Beer Festival 2016 in Bodegraven. Day one. Golden. Leafy hops aroma, somewhat fruity. Flavor has sweetish malt, and bitterish leafy and fruity hops. Medium-bodied.
Tried
on 15 Oct 2016
at 05:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample at Borefts 2016. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin white head. The aroma is woody hop, light citrus. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter with a nettle resin hop bitter, light fruit palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
on 10 Oct 2016
at 01:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled at Borefts 2016, Bodegraven. Hazy orange with a white head. Notes of tropical fruit, citrus hops, honey. Well balanced. Medium body and carbonation and a bitter-sweet finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Cigar City / Knee Deep Continental Drift on 07 Oct 2016 at 13:08 - Score: 8
Tried
on 07 Oct 2016
at 05:59