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El Monstruo Lúpulo
Cigar City Brewing
- From:
- Cigar City Brewing
- Florida, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 91
- Avg:
- 4.09 | pDev: 7.82%
- Reviews:
- 10
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 01, 2019
- Added:
- Jul 13, 2014
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 11
Cigar City’s new Rare Beer Club-exclusive IIPA is a hefty, highly focused beer which has spent some careful aging time on both Spanish cedar and spruce – the result going way beyond the imperialized version of the cedar-aged Jai Alai we first imagined. But it still sings like that beer does: revolving around the careful marriage of wood and hops.
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Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia
3.95/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Having found a truly ancient bottle in my basement, I opened it, it had a nice "pop" and, when poured, wasa a lovely solid amber with a large, long lasting head. Possibly some citrus and cedar in the nose. In the mouth, it was smooth and malty, but not overly hoppy after this long a time.
Mar 01, 2019Reviewed by nmann08 from Virginia
4.13/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
From a bottle, pours a bright orange color with a full active head.
The nose is heavy malt and citrus, pine, pineapple and very faint wood. The flavor is very strong pine, spruce and resin, bitter citrus rinds, great malt backbone. A very bitter, clean finish that dries out your mouth. This is pretty tasty and an interesting spin on the DIPA.
Nov 22, 2014The nose is heavy malt and citrus, pine, pineapple and very faint wood. The flavor is very strong pine, spruce and resin, bitter citrus rinds, great malt backbone. A very bitter, clean finish that dries out your mouth. This is pretty tasty and an interesting spin on the DIPA.
El Monstruo Lúpulo from Cigar City Brewing
Beer rating:
91 out of
100 with
66 ratings
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