Pint Break
Cisco Brewers

 

Another new brew from my local. Canned date 12/15/20. My review on 4/16/21. This is my first taste from Cisco Brewers. First pint can glass poured from the store fridge into a pint glass met all points on the ratings scales. Excellent aroma hop/ tropic fruits, Dark cloudy amber color with lacing receding to the last sips. Minimal bitterness (rating was lower) but end of the week satisfaction. Second glass freezer chilled for an hour met my standard even better. Frosty crusty thin head with lacing layers each sip and then tartness comes into play in the mix of Mosaic and Citra hop working on the back of the throat . Just a slight boozy (8+%) malty aftertaste which was maybe the aged date...BUT hit the PRICE spot best of all. Maybe it was older stock promotion? I have to start planning a regional tour of the lesser knows. Try a THOR Pint Break if you can.

Thought this was rather syrupy and sweet.

Recommended by CBC beer tender in Plymouth

Canned 3.5.20,opened 5.20.30

Can poured into a teku , translucent orange, some streams of carbonation. Two finger off white , big bubbled , frothy foam cap, very excellent retention, settles to one finger thick after five minutes , excellent lacings

Aroma is tropical fruit, stone fruits, earthy

Taste is juicy tropical fruits, stone fruits , but if earthiness

Smooth mouthfeel, hop nibble nicely lingers

Well call me Ahab! Where the Figawi? Cisco is a good brewer . This is a great beer , good on them

 

 

Pint can opened and reviewed on 4/18/20. Double IPA. 8.7% abv.

A classic, old school clear Amber color with blond hues. Chalky white foam is clumpy and Lacy.

The nose is rather exceptional, with a very sweet and juicy tropical fruit hop aroma and sweet, buttery and caramel tinged malt thing to balance it out. Nails the style guidlines for DIPA.

A very bold and rather heady hop taste that includes tropical juice style hops, both sweet and earthy dry aspects hit the palate hard. The earthy bitterness and subtle boozy heat plays off the sweet fruity current of flavor, while the malt feels medium bodied, but is juicy until a slicker, sweeter malt thing rolls in.

Harkens back to a time when the almighty DIPA ruled.

Picked-up a four-pack of cans at Long Ridge Wine and Spirits for nine dollars! Have had many brews from these guys before. This is very good, & the price point is extremely appealing.