7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
@Pilsner Petes East Coast Gathering-growler–pours a light tan head and hazy amber color. Aroma is dark malt-peat/roasty, earthy hops. Taste is dark malt-peat/earthy/coffee, earthy/leathery hops. Interesting. Thanks notalush for sharing.
Tried
from Growler
on 20 Jun 2009
at 11:14
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
This is dark, could be the darkest stout I’ve found yet. Not just opaque black in the glass but the stream pouring from the bottle is nearly opaque, just hints at reddish brown, otherwise barely passes any light! Large foamy head, dark brown in color. Aroma is full of roast and burnt chocolate, maybe there’s a raisin or other dark fruitiness in the background. The flavor is equally roasty, with hints of a resinous wood and burnt coffee. After the first swallow, the resinous wood starts up in the nose and now seems very apparent. Drier than expected, though full bodied without a doubt. Hops are there if you concentrate, kinda spicy, lending a long bitter finish. Alcohol is not obvious, amazingly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2009
at 22:22
9.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 10
First rating75 cl bottle thanks to sebletitje!On June 16, 2009. Shared with a bunch of the Göteborg ratebeerians.Black color, dark brown head. Salty, sweet, alcohol, hoppy, malty, a bit fruity scent, also some wood and a bit of smoke. Salty, burnt, wood, smoke, coffee, roasted, char coal taste. Smooth mouthfeel, medium high bitterness.8/5/7/5/17=4.3Rerate750 ml bottle shared @ Timos CCB Day tasting on July 7, 2012.Black color, dark brown head. Sweet, raissin, chocolate, malty, alcohol scent. Sweet, salty, charcoal, malty, wet stones taste. Mineral, roasted, ash aftertaste. Smooth full mouthfeel, medium bitterness.9/4/9/5/19=4.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2009
at 16:27
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
75 cl bottle thanks to sebletitje!On June 16, 2009. Shared with a bunch of the Göteborg ratebeerians.Shady dark brown color, big nice tan to orange head. Sweet, hoppy, malty, licorice, alcohol scent. Salty, malty, caramel, coffee, chocolate taste. Smooth mouthfeel, medium high bitterness. Warming alcohol. Dryish finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2009
at 16:25
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Growler courtesy GodofThunder. Ruby color. Loads of coffee and chocolate in the nose on this one, luxuriant almost. Sweet balanced malt flavors, a bit nutty with a backdrop of coffee. Great coffee finish with a kiss of hops and no lack of malt backbone to finish it out.
Tried
from Growler
on 13 Jun 2009
at 16:05
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Growler courtesy GodofThunder. Ruby color with a light head. Touch of vanilla in the nose with a touch of woodiness and tobacco makes it come across almost like a dipped cigar. But the strong vanilla flavor comes across like vanilla creme soda mixed with brown ale, not crazy about it, but vanilla isn’t my favorite. Easy finish.
Tried
from Growler
on 13 Jun 2009
at 16:03
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
32oz growler from the brewery pours up very dark with just a bit of brown peaking through right at the edges and nice mocha head. The modest strength aroma emits soft notes of cedar with faint notes of pine to fir tree hops, highly roasted malts, dark chocolate and a sense of caramel. The taste is full and bold with notes of dark roastiness, smooth cedar, dark chocolate and then a dash of caramel. By midway the cedar takes over along with some pine like fir tree hops. Into the finish I get lingering roastiness, cedar, mild pine hops and a bit of dry dark chocolate. Very tasty stuff with a load of flavor.
Tried
from Growler
on 05 Jun 2009
at 22:27
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Growler at PilsnerPeter’s Spring Gathering. courtesy of notalush, thanks Brandon this is my first Cigar City brew. Aroma is very original, its mix of woody fumes, very different, almost like a cigar. This is all mixed up with a sweet pea aroma (in a good way) and this is very earthy and soil/muddy like a Scottish brew. The word rustic comes to mind with this aroma, weirdly smoky. The flavor is much less original but more straight up brown ale, just that sweet pea, earthy, natural, flavor. This does make an interesting brown ale which is hard to come by.
Tried
from Growler
on 04 Jun 2009
at 12:01
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thanks to juiceisloose for this one - shared at Peter’s NY gathering - a very turbid pour - quite sweet, even for a scotch ale, but that is really my only complaint - low carbonation, with a smooth mouthfeel - a lot of caramel, toffee, and plum, on top of a soft peaty and smoky character - a bit of roasted nuts and cherries - quite earthy, but the smoke phenols take a back seat to the sweetness.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2009
at 18:06
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Many thanks to Dickinsonbeer for sharing this at Peter’s NY gathering - this beer is seriously intense - so much so, that I’m glad I only got a couple of ounces of it - any more may have killed me - this beer is so bad-ass, it makes Chuck Norris cry - it’s so bad ass, that I am going to spend my entire rating saying almost nothing about the beer at all, except this: I was surprised at how the cedar was able to add an interesting and tasty dimension to the beer - why haven’t other brewers tried this? - anyway, back to the utterly useless comments - this beer is so bad ass, it made me ultra-virile for several minutes, and I impregnated several woman just by looking at them - it’s so bad ass, it makes that dude in Tennessee with 21 kids look like a homosexual in comparison - your mama’s so fat, when she gets on the scale, it says, "to be continuned" - wait...I seem to have gotten off topic...that’s how bad ass this beer is!
Tried
on 01 Jun 2009
at 23:24