Tuxedo Tshirt Black IPA
Circle Brewing Company
- From:
- Circle Brewing Company
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 7.9%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 14, 2026
- Added:
- Oct 29, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
No description / notes.
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Rated by ttoadee from Texas
3.43/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
RB Transfer
Jun 26, 2025
Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas
3.28/5 rDev -10.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.28/5 rDev -10.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a cola brown color with a billowing head of tan colored foam. The head has a decent level of retention, fading over time and leaving a tons of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is strong of a caramel and roasted malt smell mixed with aromas of cola sweetness and some herbal and pine hop. Along with these smells comes a little bit of brown sugar and molasses as well as some aromas of cherry and nut.
Taste – The taste begins with a cola like flavor mixed with tastes of caramel and roasted malt. There is a light level of herb and pine and a touch of grapefruit upfront. The hop is rather light on the tongue, getting just a bit stronger throughout the taste with more flavors of pine and herb adding on. All the while there are dark fruit tastes of cherry and plum that are in the flavor profile as well, mixing with the rest to leave one with a lightly hopped, lightly roasted, and sweeter taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium in thickness and creaminess with a higher carbonation level. OK for the middle of the road and sweeter tastes of the brew.
Overall – Not really all that great of a black IPA from my perspective. Too sweet and not enough hop for me.
Apr 25, 2023Appearance – The beer pours a cola brown color with a billowing head of tan colored foam. The head has a decent level of retention, fading over time and leaving a tons of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is strong of a caramel and roasted malt smell mixed with aromas of cola sweetness and some herbal and pine hop. Along with these smells comes a little bit of brown sugar and molasses as well as some aromas of cherry and nut.
Taste – The taste begins with a cola like flavor mixed with tastes of caramel and roasted malt. There is a light level of herb and pine and a touch of grapefruit upfront. The hop is rather light on the tongue, getting just a bit stronger throughout the taste with more flavors of pine and herb adding on. All the while there are dark fruit tastes of cherry and plum that are in the flavor profile as well, mixing with the rest to leave one with a lightly hopped, lightly roasted, and sweeter taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is medium in thickness and creaminess with a higher carbonation level. OK for the middle of the road and sweeter tastes of the brew.
Overall – Not really all that great of a black IPA from my perspective. Too sweet and not enough hop for me.
Reviewed by imnodoctorbut from Texas
3.79/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
pours murky cola brown body with frothy tan foam head that billows and maintains moderate retention, leaving patches of lacing behind as it settles to a murky cap; few floaters sink to the bottom
aroma is strong molasses malt and resinous pine hop
taste follows the nose with a thick chewy dark malt (extract?) and resinous pine hop. little bit of citrus sweetness fading off from the sweetness of the malt stands out later. also picking up a little smoke.
moderate carbonation, medium body; smooth and dry. dry finish with low bitterness. coats the tongue and cheeks with lingering dry bitterness.
overall:
pretty good black ipa, but certainly not the best. very malt forward, fairly resinous, but not enough *umph* in any one area to really stand out in a good way.
Jan 04, 2021aroma is strong molasses malt and resinous pine hop
taste follows the nose with a thick chewy dark malt (extract?) and resinous pine hop. little bit of citrus sweetness fading off from the sweetness of the malt stands out later. also picking up a little smoke.
moderate carbonation, medium body; smooth and dry. dry finish with low bitterness. coats the tongue and cheeks with lingering dry bitterness.
overall:
pretty good black ipa, but certainly not the best. very malt forward, fairly resinous, but not enough *umph* in any one area to really stand out in a good way.
Rated by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.25/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
High C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
Jan 26, 2019
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
3.48/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
$ 2.36 (Including tax and discount)/12 oz can ($ 0.197/oz) from Spec’s #100, DeZavala, San Antonio, TX. Reviewed 11/16/18.
“Canned on 10/25/18” on back bottom. On shelf in the store. Stored at 42 degrees and served at 42 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter.
Appearance – 4.
Body – Dark brown/black, opaque.
Head – Large (Maximum five cm, aggressive center pour), medium density, tan, good retention, slooowly diminishing to a two to three mm ring and partial layer. Head retraction leaves short pieces of lace, resembling hieroglyphics, of mostly tiny to small bubbles.
Lacing – Good. In addition to the above, volume reduction leaves five mm rings of tight lacing connected by thin columns and wide flows.
First pour – Medium brown, clear.
Aroma – 3.5 – Moderate spicy hoppiness.
Flavor – 3.5 – Begins with some maltiness balanced by some light hop bitterness. No alcohol (6.5 % ABV), no diacetyl, no dimethylsulfide.
Palate – 3 – Thin, watery, soft carbonation.
Impression and interpretation – 3.5 – Nothing really special about this one, other than claiming Reinheitsgebot. This is a very easy-drinking brew, totally unoffensive and unchallenging. It would be very easy to consume a six-pack at a sitting, which gives it a lot in common with most real German Reinheitsgebot beers.
Nov 16, 2018“Canned on 10/25/18” on back bottom. On shelf in the store. Stored at 42 degrees and served at 42 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter.
Appearance – 4.
Body – Dark brown/black, opaque.
Head – Large (Maximum five cm, aggressive center pour), medium density, tan, good retention, slooowly diminishing to a two to three mm ring and partial layer. Head retraction leaves short pieces of lace, resembling hieroglyphics, of mostly tiny to small bubbles.
Lacing – Good. In addition to the above, volume reduction leaves five mm rings of tight lacing connected by thin columns and wide flows.
First pour – Medium brown, clear.
Aroma – 3.5 – Moderate spicy hoppiness.
Flavor – 3.5 – Begins with some maltiness balanced by some light hop bitterness. No alcohol (6.5 % ABV), no diacetyl, no dimethylsulfide.
Palate – 3 – Thin, watery, soft carbonation.
Impression and interpretation – 3.5 – Nothing really special about this one, other than claiming Reinheitsgebot. This is a very easy-drinking brew, totally unoffensive and unchallenging. It would be very easy to consume a six-pack at a sitting, which gives it a lot in common with most real German Reinheitsgebot beers.
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