Cigar City Brewing Continental Drift

Continental Drift

 

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

Collab with: Knee Deep Brewing Company
  IPA - West Coast Regular
Score
7.27
ABV: 6.8% IBU: 75 Ticks: 34
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.
 

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7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
van tap @Borefts 2016, helder gouden/oranje met witte kraag. aroma en smaken van gras, koriander, hop, kruidig, citrus, smaakvol, matig bitter, zoet, medium body, afdonk ok.
Tried from Draft on 26 Sep 2016 at 10:18

5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
23.09.2016, tap @ Borefts:
Nice slightly fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is kind of strange grassy, weeds, flowers, hay, worth, moss, minerals, bark, hops. Taste is slightly concentrated harsh grass, weeds, leafs, bark, hay, minerals, moss, hops, light malts, cardboard. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly harsh and watery mouthfeel. Not my cup of tea.
Tried from Draft on 26 Sep 2016 at 06:29

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Sampled @ Borefts Beer Festival 2016, Day 1. Clear golden color, average sized off-white head. Smell and taste lightly malts, lovely hoppiness, fresh grassy hops, hop bitter. Very nice! -- [Note: not sure whether this was actually the beer we had, but since everyone has entered their ratings here I will do so as well untill told otherwise]
Tried on 25 Sep 2016 at 11:11

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Keg at borefts. Pours golden amber, nose is grapefruit, toffee, taste is sweet, juicy citrus, dry.
Tried on 25 Sep 2016 at 07:53

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Sampled @ Borefts Beer Festival 2016. Klare dunkel goldene Farbe. Geruch intensiv hopfig, zitronig. Geschmack intensiv hopfig, fruchtig, Pfirsich, leicht harzig.
Tried on 25 Sep 2016 at 04:50

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Cigar City / Knee Deep Continental Drift (by Cigar City Brewing (CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective)):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5

24/IX/16 - on tap @ Borefts Bier Festival - BB: n/a (2016-1123) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear orange beer, creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: fresh dank hops, citrus, some grapefruit, tropical fruit, bit floral. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very hoppy start, resinous, dank, very bitter, grapefruit pits, fruity notes. Aftertaste: fruity, grapefruit, piny and resinous, some citrus.
Tried from Can on 24 Sep 2016 at 16:09

8/10
Tried on 24 Sep 2016 at 13:15

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Tap at Borefts. Slight hazy golden with short lasting white head. Mango, dank hops, mineral, lime, grassy, light sweet malts. Under medium sweet and medium bitter. Medium bodied with sparkly cardbonation. Nice.
Tried from Draft on 24 Sep 2016 at 06:15

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Sampled from tap at Borefts 2016 day 2. Slightly hazy dark golden with thin white head. Sweet malts, dough, exotic fruit and spices. Medium sweet and mild bitter. Medium body, soft carbonation. Very fruity rich sweet finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Cigar City / Knee Deep Continental Drift on 19 Dec 2017 at 21:14 - Score: 7. Original review text: 3.8
Tried from Draft on 24 Sep 2016 at 06:13

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Tap. Clear golden color with white head. Aroma is grapefruit, orange, some sweaty hops. Taste is more grapefruit jam, grassy, some residual sweetness. Not too bitter finish, oily mouthfeel. Very good!
Tried from Draft on 23 Sep 2016 at 14:20