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Improv (Improvisación) Oatmeal Rye India-Style Brown Ale
Cigar City Brewing
- From:
- Cigar City Brewing
- Florida, United States
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 15.65%
- Reviews:
- 179
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 13, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 29, 2009
- Wants:
- 38
- Gots:
- 53
What you have here is an Oatmeal Rye India-style Brown Ale. Now you might be thinking oatmeal, rye, brown ale, India-style; 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. It isn’t a brown ale, not just a brown ale anyway. It certainly isn’t an IPA. Calling it a rye beer would be selling it way short. 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.
60 IBU
60 IBU
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Ratings by mullenite:
Reviewed by mullenite from Florida
4.03/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This beer may have the longest name of any beer I've ever had... the bottle art is also one of the coolest. I would wear this on a shirt.
Pours a very dark brown, near black with a tall, thick beige head that is going nowhere fast. This head is thick and is leaving a solid lacing on the glass. It's a thing of beauty.
Now that I can finally start to see the beer maybe I can get a good sense of the smell. Sniffing with the head on the only way I would describe it is... unique... I'm not quite sure what an Oatmeal Rye India Brown Ale should smell like so bear with me.
Okay, let say you take a really great DIPA and pour it in to an stout... that is what you get. Lots of rich chocolate, lots of piney hops and touch of citrus as well. I don't really get a whole lot of the rye in the nose which is a little disappointing but on the whole this beer smells good.
The taste is complex. Rye, chocolate, hops, alcohol, hops. It actually seems as though the taste of the hops is bringing out more of the alcohol flavor. Very rich beer with a lot going on.
Big thick mouthfeel, very creamy and viscous. Almost feels like a nitro beer but with more (and much sharper) carbonation.
This beer is good but it's a sipper for sure. Not a real easy drinker.
Oct 08, 2009Pours a very dark brown, near black with a tall, thick beige head that is going nowhere fast. This head is thick and is leaving a solid lacing on the glass. It's a thing of beauty.
Now that I can finally start to see the beer maybe I can get a good sense of the smell. Sniffing with the head on the only way I would describe it is... unique... I'm not quite sure what an Oatmeal Rye India Brown Ale should smell like so bear with me.
Okay, let say you take a really great DIPA and pour it in to an stout... that is what you get. Lots of rich chocolate, lots of piney hops and touch of citrus as well. I don't really get a whole lot of the rye in the nose which is a little disappointing but on the whole this beer smells good.
The taste is complex. Rye, chocolate, hops, alcohol, hops. It actually seems as though the taste of the hops is bringing out more of the alcohol flavor. Very rich beer with a lot going on.
Big thick mouthfeel, very creamy and viscous. Almost feels like a nitro beer but with more (and much sharper) carbonation.
This beer is good but it's a sipper for sure. Not a real easy drinker.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by pat61 from Minnesota
4.25/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Appearance: Brilliant deep chestnut under a 3” lightly tan tinted foam cap that mounds up over the rim of the glass and produces thick clumps opf lace. Smell: Rich malt spice from the rye and oats, some roast. Taste: Spicy grain, an underlying malt sweetness, cardamom, and faint caramel notes. Finishes with alcoholic warming and bitter chocolate, some astringency and a dash of hops. Mouthfeel: Above average carbonation that has a little bite to it. The body is medium full with a little slickness.
Mar 22, 2015
Improv (Improvisación) Oatmeal Rye India-Style Brown Ale from Cigar City Brewing
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
367 ratings
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