Maduro Brown Ale
Cigar City Brewing

This was apparently the 22nd beer I added to my 'wants' list, almost exactly 8 years ago. Wild. Anyway.

Pour is a little clearer/thinner than I'd anticipated for some reason. Dark chestnut body, with a nice light head that pops and fizzles away to little more than some fur around the collar.

Nose is rich with some coffee, milky chocolate, caramel, and something a little lighter. Excited to dig in.

Blunt caramel with some cocoa and creamy coffee. Finish comes together bitter coffee but with a mellowing agent. Mildly nutty.

Heavy carbonation distracts from a body that is at once creamy and kind of thin. As it sits, the carbonation is still a little high for me, but the creamy smoothness of the flaked oats really comes to the forefront and is a real highlight.

I feel like Maduro and Cigar City in general have a pretty good reputation, and I've experienced nothing to disabuse me of that notion. Rich and flavourful brown ale from a brewery that I've enjoyed everything I've had of theirs. Glad we've got distro now, and may have to occasionally break my 'locals only' policy!!

 

 

 

 

Gorgeous beer. Dark brown but not opaque. Thick fizzy tan head with excellent retention. Smells of caramel, toasted malts, and pea nuts. It's a good aroma, I just wish it was more pronounced. Toasted flavor; with a hint of caramel and cigar. Good beer. Balanced mouthfeel. There's a lot going on in this beer but I feel like you have to reach for it.

 

 

 

Just nice... balanced stable.. malty. Notes of Chocolate ... Smooth and just enough bitter balance to leave a sweetness lingering on your tounge... Inviting another sip...

Poured into a Nonic pint glass from a 12-oz can 2 1/2 mo’s after its canning fate.

Look: A pretty beer — ruby brown, two fingers tan head with decent retention, and producing abundant lacing.

Nose: Faint roasted malt.

Attack: Follows the nose exactly, then the flavor deepens.

Finish: Some hop bitterness to balance the malt.

Mouthfeel: Medium thin, and a little too much carbonation.

Overall: Another very good, very drinkable English Brown. While, as with the Alesmith Nut Brown, I prefer both the now defunct Rogue Hazelnut Brown, and Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale, just a bit more, I’d gladly order and enjoy drinking this one. I do agree with the brewer’s notes — this would be an excellent beer to accompany a cigar.

 

Your above average brown ale. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Nose is cocoa, caramel, chocolate syrup. Taste was slightly cocoa with a slight dark chocolate bitterness. Very nice brown ale.

 

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Had this gem right out of the spigot at Cigar City in Tampa. As a true beer snob who drinks new beers almost nightly, i was stunned at how good this was, i cannot say i have tasted anything better in the less than 6 abv range, Noy easy to find in my home Alabama. Find it occasionally in cans in Birmingham stores. Just as good poured from a can into a chilled pint glass at my house. A real treat when i find it.