Bolita Double Nut Brown Ale - Cigar City Brewing

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rAvg: 3.96
pDev: 12.37%
Reviews: 186
Hads: 170

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Brewed by:
Cigar City Brewing

Florida, United States

Style | ABV
English Brown Ale | 9.00% ABV

Availability: Year-round. bottle (166), growler (11), on-tap (9).

Notes:
Pours dark brown in color with a tan head with notes of caramel, toffee, chocolate and toasted bread. Flavors of caramel, toffee and chocolate notes open with interjecting notes of wood and herbal bitterness from English hop varietals then moving back into semi-sweet chocolate, caramel and toffee and is dried out in the finish with toasted malt notes that resemble roast peanuts.

50 IBU

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Reviews by legalpete19340:

legalpete19340

Virginia

3.93/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

A: Poured a very dark brown with a solid one plus finger of light tan head that fell immediately to a thin skim. No lacing no coating. Next pour looked quite syrupy.

S: Quite sweet with amaretto and prunes. A hint of toast and then grape jelly.

T: Malt comes on strong out of the gate with burnt toast then quickly a barley wine like sweetness with prunes, grape jelly and raisins takes control. Faint alcohol and then big biscuit, amaretto and roasted nut and malt finish up with a bitter burnt toffee end.

M: Very big, foamy and makes me want to swish and chew a bit. Almost perfect.

O: Strange beer to me because it came across much sweeter than expected. The sweetness was interesting but I wanted more malt. Alcohol was well hidden well and I did enjoy drinking it. However, in a bar situation one pint probably would have been enough.

Serving type: bottle

01-29-2012 00:57:34 | More by legalpete19340

More User Reviews:

Andreias21

Florida

3.75/5 rDev -5.3%

05-21-2013 16:54:01 | More by Andreias21

johntfox

Florida

4/5 rDev +1%

05-21-2013 01:09:33 | More by johntfox

tbeckett

Ontario (Canada)

3.95/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Bottle from Total Wine in Tampa. From notes.

A - Poured nearly black with a one finger mocha head. Half finger of retention and good lace rings.

S - Odd aroma. Can't pin it down, but it's nice. Chocolate, nutty, toffee notes.

T - Chocolate, very much a double nut brown with lot's of chocolate, nuts, and toffee notes. Just an amped up brown ale.

M - Nice light carbonation. Full body and a dry tobacco-like finish.

O/D - Very much what they tried to put together, I think. A nice beer that was pretty drinkable for the ABV.

Serving type: bottle

05-20-2013 20:32:45 | More by tbeckett

jl28r1

Texas

3/5 rDev -24.2%

05-19-2013 18:09:29 | More by jl28r1

moonknight31

California

4/5 rDev +1%

05-19-2013 17:06:54 | More by moonknight31

MatthewPlus

Florida

4/5 rDev +1%

05-15-2013 14:33:57 | More by MatthewPlus

aLenwell

Florida

4.25/5 rDev +7.3%

05-14-2013 00:46:25 | More by aLenwell

Fux

France

4.1/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Short review from a fly at Cigar City.
The nose is rich, with notes of notes, chocolate and molasses. The palate mainly follows the nose but is sadly less expressive, a bit faint with not much length in it. The mouthfeel is smooth and silky but a bit thin.

Serving type: bottle

05-10-2013 23:38:46 | More by Fux