3 True Outcomes
Cigar City Brewing
- From:
- Cigar City Brewing
- Florida, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 12.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.66 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 02, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 01, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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El Catador Club 16th Edition Exclusive
Imperial Stout Aged in Vanilla Brandy Barrels with Toasted Coconut, Cacao Nibs, and Vanilla
A home run, a walk, or a strikeout: These are the three true outcomes in baseball, events that result solely from the duel between pitcher and batter with no help or hindrance from fielders. We celebrate the outcomes with the addition of cacao, vanilla and coconut, to this imperial stout aged in brandy vanilla barrels.
Imperial Stout Aged in Vanilla Brandy Barrels with Toasted Coconut, Cacao Nibs, and Vanilla
A home run, a walk, or a strikeout: These are the three true outcomes in baseball, events that result solely from the duel between pitcher and batter with no help or hindrance from fielders. We celebrate the outcomes with the addition of cacao, vanilla and coconut, to this imperial stout aged in brandy vanilla barrels.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by zac16125 from South Carolina
2.66/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.75
2.66/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.75
Surprised this hasn’t been added yet as most of the El Cat beers are on here. IS with vanilla, cocoa, and coconut, aged in vanilla brandy barrels.
A: Pours a thick appearing opaque jet black with no discernible head or lacing. 3.5
S: Aroma is…. strange. It’s sweet and boozy, that’s not strange, but it has a huge cardboard character (presumably coconut gone wrong) and an almost astringent metallic type character. I cellar a lot of beer and this one has many characters of a well past it’s prime oxidized mess, yet can’t be more than a few months old max (and stored in my beer fridge since purchase). Once i acclimate to those, then other more pleasant aromas come out and are mostly vanilla, some marshmallow notes and charred oak. 2.5
T: Taste is better without the off notes from the nose, but it’s a cloying sweetness bomb. A spectrum of huge chocolate, including milk chocolate and big fudge notes. Some nutty characters, and prominent vanilla. Coconut is there but takes a pronounced back seat to the chocolate and vanilla. This review may make it sound good, but I just can’t do it, it’s far far too sweet. By the third sip I’m pretty much over it. 2.75
M/D: Offensively sweet with a dismal drinkability. A four oz flight pour would be a couple ounces too much. 2
O: First review on here but it garners an impressive 4.6 on that *other* beer rating site. I guess this is what the kids like these days, but to me this is a disaster. I really just don’t see the draw to these thick, diabetes inducing, low drinkability, sugar bombs. 2.75
Aug 02, 2023A: Pours a thick appearing opaque jet black with no discernible head or lacing. 3.5
S: Aroma is…. strange. It’s sweet and boozy, that’s not strange, but it has a huge cardboard character (presumably coconut gone wrong) and an almost astringent metallic type character. I cellar a lot of beer and this one has many characters of a well past it’s prime oxidized mess, yet can’t be more than a few months old max (and stored in my beer fridge since purchase). Once i acclimate to those, then other more pleasant aromas come out and are mostly vanilla, some marshmallow notes and charred oak. 2.5
T: Taste is better without the off notes from the nose, but it’s a cloying sweetness bomb. A spectrum of huge chocolate, including milk chocolate and big fudge notes. Some nutty characters, and prominent vanilla. Coconut is there but takes a pronounced back seat to the chocolate and vanilla. This review may make it sound good, but I just can’t do it, it’s far far too sweet. By the third sip I’m pretty much over it. 2.75
M/D: Offensively sweet with a dismal drinkability. A four oz flight pour would be a couple ounces too much. 2
O: First review on here but it garners an impressive 4.6 on that *other* beer rating site. I guess this is what the kids like these days, but to me this is a disaster. I really just don’t see the draw to these thick, diabetes inducing, low drinkability, sugar bombs. 2.75
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