Spicy Plum Sour Ale
Cigar City Brewing
- From:
- Cigar City Brewing
- Florida, United States
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.74 | pDev: 5.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 21, 2011
- Added:
- Apr 02, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ktrillionaire from Florida
4.49/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
4.49/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
Firkin Friday at CCB
A - It pours a cloudy orange-pink, capped with a fizzy head and it is quite lively in the effervescence dept.
S - The nose is heavily spiced, but it is also masterfully balanced. Ginger, chamomile, plum, cardamom, clove, and Indian bay leaf are just the most obvious spice suggestions, there are certainly more to be found. The whole thing has a reasonable similarity to Sleepytime tea on crack, in terms of the volume of aromatics. This is alchemy, quite simply, to create something so laden with complexity.
T - The taste is shockingly sour, especially given the soothing herbal composition of the nose. Big general acidicity hits your throat like a minor Hanssens's Experimental, and it seems neither acetic nor lactic. There is a lot of fruit flavor: cherry, currant, raspberry, pinot grape and of course plum; there is also a lot of the same spicing found in the nose. This is good stuff.
M - Very nice feel on cask.
O - This is a great spiced sour beer. Awesome brew, challenging the limits of accepted flavor dyamics. Can Tampa even get down with such an insane libation at this point?
Apr 02, 2011A - It pours a cloudy orange-pink, capped with a fizzy head and it is quite lively in the effervescence dept.
S - The nose is heavily spiced, but it is also masterfully balanced. Ginger, chamomile, plum, cardamom, clove, and Indian bay leaf are just the most obvious spice suggestions, there are certainly more to be found. The whole thing has a reasonable similarity to Sleepytime tea on crack, in terms of the volume of aromatics. This is alchemy, quite simply, to create something so laden with complexity.
T - The taste is shockingly sour, especially given the soothing herbal composition of the nose. Big general acidicity hits your throat like a minor Hanssens's Experimental, and it seems neither acetic nor lactic. There is a lot of fruit flavor: cherry, currant, raspberry, pinot grape and of course plum; there is also a lot of the same spicing found in the nose. This is good stuff.
M - Very nice feel on cask.
O - This is a great spiced sour beer. Awesome brew, challenging the limits of accepted flavor dyamics. Can Tampa even get down with such an insane libation at this point?
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