Cigar City Brewing Bolita Double Nut Brown Ale

Bolita Double Nut Brown Ale

 

Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, United States 🇺🇸

Brown Ale - Imperial Regular
Score
7.30
ABV: 10.0% IBU: 50 Ticks: 33
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7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

From bottle shared at Ratebeer Best awards and bottle-share. Brown color with off white head. Malty aroma, bread, caramel, nutty dark dried fruits, raisins. Moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter taste. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Mar 2017 at 15:55


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at RBGT. Pours dark brown with a little head. Aroma is caramel, nuts, some wooden barrel. Body is heavy with lots of caramel, toffee, and wood. Softly carbonated, good balance. Medium sweet palate, nice.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jan 2017 at 21:27


5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

750 ml. bottle sampled @ Delirium Hoppy Loft. GUSHER. Bottle was quite a few years old probably. Brown, uneven mocha head. Nose is distinctly sour, sour coffee grounds, red fruits, powdery dark malts, vinegar, glue, puckering. Taste is sour coffee grounds, grainy malts, sour red fruit, vinegar, glue, rotting red grapes, sour mocha, varnish, grape jelly, spoiled lactic. Very heavy carbonation. Powdery. Age very likely aggravated these characteristics but age alone couldn’t have caused them. It was very likely stored chilled for most of its lifetime. Oddly it isn’t that bad really, one can almost think of it as a badly made Oud Bruin, some will probably rather like this one. I didn’t expect this from Cigar City to be honest.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Oct 2015 at 02:36


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

How: Bottle, 2010 vintage.
Where: SMĂ–F 2014.
Appearance: Dark brown colour with a beige head.
Aroma: Malt, caramel, some chocolate and alcohol.
Body: Medium to full body, medium carbonation.
Flavour: Caramel, some liquorice, malt, alcohol, a bit sour.
Comment: Either slightly infected or has an odd sourness to it that doesn’t fit.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Nov 2014 at 22:27



7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Imported from my RateBeer account as Cigar City Bolita Double Nut Brown Ale (by Cigar City Brewing (CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5

18/III/13 - 75cl bottle from Domus Birrae (Rome, IT) @ home - BB: n/a - 2011 vintage or earlier (2013-254)

Clear purple to red brown beer, big frothy beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: cola bottle candy, citric acidity, Rodenbach like aroma, cocoa powder. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, leather, tobacco leafs, mocha, little bitter, dark chocolate, lactobacillus. Aftertaste: hint of caramel, tobacco, pretty sour, mocha, coffee. I'm pretty sure the beer got infected, this sourness was not intentional, yet it works for me. Since I'm a sucker for Flemish Sour Red ales...

Tried from Can on 18 Mar 2013 at 11:00


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Reddish brown color with foamy big tan head, chocolate aroma, berries-chocolate taste, high carbonation, abrupt finish. Very nice ale.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Feb 2013 at 18:12


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

750 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 9/22/2012. Pours almost black dark brown color with a 1-2 finger dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing on the glass. Aromas of caramel, molasses, toast, toffee, chocolate, roasted malt, raisin, prune, light nuttiness, and earth; a bit of estery alcohol that reduces a bit as it warms. Pretty nice aromas with good malt complexity and balance. Taste of caramel, chocolate, toast, toffee, nuttiness, roasted malt, dark bread, molasses, light dark fruit, and light earthiness. Lingering notes of caramel, chocolate, toast, toffee, molasses, nuttiness, dark bread, light dark fruitiness, and light earthy spiciness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance and robustness of malt flavors; some slight estery off flavors, but not too bad; with zero cloying flavors present after the finish. Medium carbonation and fairly full bodied; with a very creamy and slick mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a small warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very good imperial brown ale. Huge robustness of flavor with good balance; and quite smooth to sip on. A nicely enjoyable offering.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jan 2013 at 20:48


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle shared at RBWG 2012. Pours a cloudy brown with no head. The aroma is oak and smoke. Medium mouthfeel with a roasted malt and chocolate with a nice smokey finish. Easy to drink a very good American strong ale from CCB.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2012 at 00:10