Cigar City Brewing - Widmer Brothers Brewing Gentlemen's Club Old Fashioned Style Ale - Aged in Rye Whiskey Barrels - No. 1

Hello beer lovers and welcome to another edition of the NorCal Beer Blog's brew review.

Tonight’s featured beer is Cigar City Brewing - Widmer Brothers Brewing Gentlemen's Club Old Fashioned Style Ale - Aged in Rye Whiskey Barrels - No. 1.

From the Widmer Brothers Brewing website: “This week, we’ll be introducing Gentlemen’s Club, a special collaboration beer that we brewed with Tampa, Florida’s Cigar City Brewing. Drawing inspiration from an Old Fashioned cocktail recipe and the Gentlemen’s Clubs where the cocktail was first served over 100 years ago, this collaboration beer brings together two breweries from opposite ends of the country and ingredients from the home states of both breweries. Using an Old Ale recipe as the base beer, Gentlemen’s Club “Old Fashioned Style Ale” was brewed with cherries and oranges, Alchemy, Sorachi Ace and Pacifica hops, and hand-selected specialty malts to mirror the qualities typically found in an Old Fashioned cocktail. The beer was aged on three different woods: bourbon barrels, rye whiskey barrels and new oak spirals, resulting in three unique versions of the beer, each offering a slightly different take on the same age-old recipe.”

Let’s get started!

Appearance: Pours a hazy amber color with a thin tan head and good lacing.

Aroma: Sweet malts, vanilla, cherry, whiskey, toffee, orange, oak, molasses and boozy.

Taste: Caramel, orange, cherry, vanilla, whiskey and oak.

Overall: Sweet and boozy, Cigar City Brewing - Widmer Brothers Brewing Gentlemen's Club Old Fashioned Style Ale - Aged in Rye Whiskey Barrels is a nice barrel aged beer.  This 10.5% ABV offering is certainly something for fans of the style to try. 

Cheers!

Mark Harvey

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