Improv Imperial Dark Rye Ale
Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Speciality Grain - Rye / Roggenbier Special|
Score
7.32
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What you have here is an Imperial Dark Rye Ale. Isn’t that a lot to be going on in just one beer? Well yes, it is. But that is the point. Layers. Flavor elements building on and playing off of preceding elements, like a building wave; a growing crescendum of taste bud temptation; a wall of sound expressed through flavor and channeled toward your mouth. This beer isn’t for everyone. In many ways it is more than just a little weird. It certainly doesn’t fit easily into any category. In the spirit of all great things that are conceived in the moment, but perfected through passionate repetition it started life as an improvisation and grew from there. And it might not be for you. But if the thought of big spicy rye notes, a wallop of a hop punch, multitudinous layers of caramel, sweet malt and a respectable balancing gravity sound intriguing then you might want to wing it and give Improv a try.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 75 cl. RBESG Rome 2010. Pours an almost clear amber golden with an off-white head. Fresh citrus and peachy hops in the nose. Medium body, sweet fruit and peaches from the aroma hops that also leave a fresh and bitter hoppiness in the finish.
NOTE: we were informed at the tasting, that this was a trial brew of "Improvisación IPA" which is different from the Improvisación (Oatmeal Rye India Brown Ale) listed here. But apparently the IPA version would be released later. Please move my rating by then. 060610
NOTE: we were informed at the tasting, that this was a trial brew of "Improvisación IPA" which is different from the Improvisación (Oatmeal Rye India Brown Ale) listed here. But apparently the IPA version would be released later. Please move my rating by then. 060610
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2010
at 05:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
75 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is citrusy and smooth peachy fruity. Bitter, wooden, citrusy and peachy. Dry and bitter and crisp dry wooden hoppy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2010
at 12:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared by Eric, thanks man
Appearance: Dark brown with a nice tan head and lacing
Aroma: Dark malts, orange, rye and citrus
Taste: Rye and citrus with a hop bitterness in the finish
Very nice beer, another good one from Cigar City.
Appearance: Dark brown with a nice tan head and lacing
Aroma: Dark malts, orange, rye and citrus
Taste: Rye and citrus with a hop bitterness in the finish
Very nice beer, another good one from Cigar City.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2010
at 17:59
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 75cl. @ cgarvieuk - Cigar City tasting.Clear medium to dark brown color with a large, creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, lacto, barnyard, rubber - smoke, soft oak, cheese notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, dry dusty wine notes. Body is medium, texture is oily and smooth, carbonation is soft and very carbonated. [20100206]
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2010
at 23:19
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
750ml bottle @Suttree’s Nothing else to do TN Gathering. Thanks Mike via Phil-pours a tight retaining light tan head and hazy brown/orange color. Aroma is yeast, orange, spice/rye/grain. Taste is yeast, orange, spice/rye/grain/wood.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2010
at 12:19
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled@omhper. Hazy deep brown colour with mediumsized beige head. Aroma is chocolate, fruits, some slight yeast, mild wood and herbs. Flavour is zest, chocolate, mild toasted notes as well as some ryebreadlike notes. Underlying fruityness all the way through as well. Quite interesting brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2010
at 07:52
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled, thanks baggio! Hazy nut brown, small beige head. Complex aroma where nothing really stands out. Chocolate, orange and wood are there. Mid-sweet wit soft yet solid mouthfeel. Caramel, chocolate, marmelade, roastiness and menthe are flavours I pick up from this well integrated beer. The bitterness keeps growing. Quality all the way!
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2010
at 01:48
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
bottle at home ... thanks to thecheeseman ... murky brown... light sharp almost sour yeast ... almost funky nose .... funky light barnyard ... no sournes ... little bitterness and citrus peel... toffee malts ... not for me
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2010
at 08:23
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Dark my bottle as a run up to New Years Eve. Pours a cloudy, translucent, brown with a frothy, slightly beige head. Aroma is a mixed bag, grassy, earthy, spicy, some light citrus, some sweetness. Flavor is big on the chewy malts, spicy rye, some light toast, earthy hops and mine had a tart/dry/bretty kinda thing going on. I’m not claiming infection, it could have been the mix with the rye, but mine had a very distinct flanders brown finish to the flavor. Silky finish thanks to the oatmeal. Very drinkable, went down a little easy. Slightly dry too. It was OK. I didn’t jump out of my seat but I did drink the whole bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2010
at 15:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a cloudy deep brown color ale with a huge light brown color head with good retention and some good lacing. Aroma of strong grassy and earthy hops are mix with some rye malt. Taste is a somewhat unique mix between loads of rye malt with loads of grassy and earthy hops and a medium bitter finish. Body is quite full with limited filtration and great carbonation with no apparent alcohol. Not sure I would drink this on a regular basis but a very interesting experiment nonetheless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2009
at 20:23