CIB Brewery

Microbrewery in Carson, Iowa, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2012

Closed in 2017

Contact
116 Broadway St, Carson, IA, 51525, United States
Description
CIB Brewery is a small batch, production-only nano brewery located in Carson, Iowa. We are a farmhouse style brewery. This means all of our beers are fermented using proprietary yeast blends including Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, and other wild yeasts. The end result of this brewing process is that all of our ales will be somewhat sweet and tart on the palate and be uniquely flavorful. All of our wild yeasts are harvested and cultured in the brewery in Carson, IA.

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4.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Bottle shared on the RBWG bus - whoever brought this deserves to drink a full 750ml of CIB by his (or her!) self. Pours cloudy, golden-brown with a filmy head. Big acetic nose, plenty of plastic and leaves. Medium sweet flavor, certainly tart, with more plastic and leafy bitterness, along with astringent alcohol and berries. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Tart finish, mildly warming, with lingering plastic. Terrible, but still maybe the best of the CIB bunch.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2013 at 13:49

3.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Bottle shared on the RBWG 2013 bus - I really do hate whoever provided this atrocity. Pours murky brown with a faint, filmy head. Mild coffee in the nose with mostly soured malts. Tastes awful, all sour malts, metal, dry wood and yeast. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Dry finish, some roast, lots of plastic, tart and out of place cherries. Unpleasantly sour. Scattered. Horrific.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2013 at 13:41

3.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 2 Overall 3.5
Bottle shared on the RBWG 2013 bus - is this thanks to the randomgarbage? Pours murky, golden-brown with a creamy cap. Belgian yeast in the nose, some sweat and tart fruits. It tastes really bad, lots of nail polish in here, some leafy bitterness, tons of plastic. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Dryish finish with rich plastic, leaves, yeast, bread and paint thinner. Terrible.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2013 at 13:36

3.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 2.5
Bottle shared on the bus during RBWG 2013. Pours cloudy, red-brown with a light, cream cap. Fair nose, some bread, yeast, toasty sugars. Big sweet flavor, quite tangy, with harsh alcohol, Band-Aids, toffee, lots of plastic. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Tangy, warming finish, lots of rough alcohol, sugar and burnt malts. Not really drinkable. Impressive this brewery can exist while making beer like this. Offensive.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2013 at 01:15

4.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Bottle on the RBWG bus
Dark brown, big tan head and some lacing. Don’t drink a beer when it has "meat drippings" in the description. Bad, I see a theme here.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Feb 2013 at 08:32

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Bottle shared on the RBWG bus
Clear amber with a small off-white head. Sour cherries, cough syrup and light metallic. Best of the ones on the bus, that’s not saying it’s good.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Feb 2013 at 08:23

4.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5
Bottle shared on the RBWG bus
Poured dirty amber with a small beige head. Lots of brown sugar and herbal puke. Stay away
Tried from Bottle on 27 Feb 2013 at 08:20

3.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 4
Bottle on the RBWG bus tour
Muddy brown. Roasty and metallic, sour herbal. Why would somebody pay to ship this crap. Thanks randomgarbage, I think.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Feb 2013 at 17:41

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle shared by Jcwattsrugger. Pours dark brown with tan head. nose and taste of salted caramel, chocolate, sour apple, grape taffy, grape soda, dark fruit and candi sugar. Complex and interesting. Slight tangy sourness in finish. Medium body. Interesting beer. Enjoyed it.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jan 2013 at 17:36

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
750 bottle-tan-brown. A-dk fruit-grapes, med malt-caramel, some weird phenols. T-chocolate-med malt, earthy, dk fruit-sour grape. 2.8 Maybe would have had a different impression if I read the above description while drinking this one...
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2013 at 08:41