Guava Grove - Wild - Cigar City Brewing

ktrillionaire

Florida

4.53/5  rDev +23.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5

This beer, which has not hit the public yet, is a version of Guava Grove spiked with bugs and refermented in the bottle, and aged for a year at some point in the process. Big thanks to Wayne for hooking it up. The brew pours a turbid apricot hue and is capped with a thin doily-like cap of white froth. The nose is way funky, including notes of green sour apple, wet dog, overripe orchard fruit and actually a bit of guava underlying it all. In terms of flavor, it is even funkier, with the aforementioned green apple ramped up in intensity, as well as a tangy red wine note, and a lot of hay-barnyard-wet dog on the finish. The feel is much softer, and more Belgian-esque, than other incarnations of the Grove have been. Quite astounding, the road this brew has traveled, from the crisp (theoretical) Tropical Farmhouse Ale that it was, to the pungent and bold brew that sits in my glass.

Serving type: on-tap

09-04-2011 15:57:22 | More by ktrillionaire

bauermj

Illinois

4.25/5  rDev +16.1%

01-02-2013 17:16:36 | More by bauermj

tfsimpkins

Florida

2.5/5  rDev -31.7%

03-20-2012 03:48:25 | More by tfsimpkins

IrishColonial

Virginia

2/5  rDev -45.4%

12-15-2011 19:00:51 | More by IrishColonial

bob727

Florida

5/5  rDev +36.6%

11-21-2011 15:54:05 | More by bob727