Cigar City Dos Costas Oeste - Grapefruit Wood
3.5
200 reviews
Tampa, United States
Community reviews
Bottle. Gusher! Pours unclear golden with a frothy white small head. Aromas is quite tangy wooden, caramelized orange peel, caramel, coriander and clove. Taste is medium sweet and light+ bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily and light slick, Finishes light sweet, wooden and sour-fruity. Too wooden.
Botella. Gusher big time! Hazy amber colour, medium white head.Sweet fruity spiced citrus like aroma. Good mouthfeel. Sweet fruity citrus spiced yeasty flavour.
Bottle. Gush, gush, gush. Unclear with a thick frothy good lacing white head. Aroma is orange peel, cedar like wood, coriander, tea, light hay. Taste is medium sweet, light bitter and light fat. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Lingering wood and orange in the finish with some alcohol lurking around the corner.
750 ml bottle pours a hazy golden amber color with a nice white head. Aromas of grapefruit, citrus, ginger. Light bodied with a lot going on flavor wise, and nice dry, spicy crisp finish.
750mL bottle. Poured cloudy medium orange with a dense, well-retained off-white head. The aroma picked up cloves, grapefruit, lemon, and black pepper over bready notes.. spicy citrus and peppery boozage on the back of the nose. The flavor opened a touch sour with grapefruit and woody notes leading.. floral notes, white pepper, and dank, Brett-like notes around.. finished very dry and a bit warm, with lots of floral and spicy notes. Medium-bodied and dry as mentioned on the palate.. filling carbonation.. a bit tacky and messy in the end.. solid overall.
Bottle shared at the March tasting in Santa Cruz. Well I guess we shoulda known from the reviews.... This bottle gushed like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Explosive foam spray all over the room. Maybe a couple inches of beer left in the bottle afterward. The beer itself? Kinda banana-y, caramel-y. Belgian and sweet tasting. Not saison-ish at all. I don’t know.
i just hide it better .. . Tap @ CCB, Tampa .. . woody tartness, dentist mouthfeel .. . grapefruit and mild spice .. . not really my cup but unique for what it is .. . . i don’t want none, unless you got buns hun...
On tap at CCB. Light hazy copper no head. Sweet caramel light tart fruit and candied wood. Sweet malt candy wood grapefruit tart. Drinkable but a bit boozy.
On tap at ccb. Citrus, grapefruit. Sweet and delicious. Light and low bitterness like you’d find in a peel of a grapefruit.
At CCB on Hunahpu Eve. Pours pinkish orange with one finger head. Smells like grapefruit juice and sugar with some yeast funk. Taste is sweet with sligght tartness. Grapefruit, mango, funky yeast finish. Light mouthfeel with low to medium carbonation. Very nice and very flavorful saison.
Bottle at home ...ost 2/3 of the bottle to a GUSH ... what a mess... light hazy amber ... thin white head ... soft funky nose... sweet fruits ... juicy fruits ... oraneg and grapefruit ... soft funk ... juicy fruits ...
Bottle. Gusher. Hazy pale golden woth small ring of white head. Woody peppery aroma, some slight grapefruit citrus. Tast of grapefruit, pineapple, belgian yeast. Quite sweet and sticky. Nice
9th June 2012
Very hazy gold beer, decent white head. Smooth palate, airy and a little soft. Mild carbonation. Sweet and mild grapefruit. Whisper of wood. Touch of mint. Smooth, unusual and well joined up beer. Very very drinkable.
Tasty and drinkable but a little sweet. More like a Belgian blonde than a saison. The grapefruit is nice.
Bottle from Hopscotch and poured quickly in a Duvel snifter: Yep a gusher here as well but sort of knew about so I was ready and only lost a wee bit of beer. Cloudy golden hue with the expected initial huge head but surprisingly it faded pretty quickly even in the etched glass. Good but not great lace. The aroma has notes of orange, melon and mango, some grapefruit and pear along with grassy herbal hops. A slight note of pils and aromatic hops, very faint Saison like esters from the yeast. Ginger and just a touch of coriander. The taste is highly fruity and grainy with a moderate tannic wood finish. Herbal bitterness, flowery and some aspirin like notes. You do get some alcohol as it warms but not overpowering. Yes there is a slight sourness and ginger twang to this as well that seems quite Orval-ish. The mouth feel is lightly sprite and sharp with a light medicinal tone. Overall it is quite drinkable but must say my least favorite of the three wood treatment of the Dos Costas Oeste I have had. The aspirin and sour-y notes have a lot to do with that.
750mL bottle, sent from LateStart (thanks Jordan). Bottle gushes like I’ve never seen a gusher before, losing ¼ of the bottle – WTF, absolutely ridiculous – pours a hazy orange with a large white head. Aroma of ban-daids, grapefruit, citrus and orange peel. Flavour of band-aids, orange peel, citrus and grapefruit. Doesn’t have the vegetal qualities of the lemon wood one, but it also seems infected. What the hell are they thinking here – this is all over the place. Total crap.
I degassed this one slowly after reading some rates.
Oily dark yellow pour with frothy white head.
Complex flowery aroma. Sweet and perfumy. Some wood and leather.
The flavor is sweet and complex, following the aroma.’
Very nice Saison.
Bottle at The Distillery in Savannah. This beer gushed forth a hazy dark golden color with a glass-filling foamy white head that diminishes slowly. small patches of lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus, oak and malt. Medium to full body with flavors of grapefruit, sweet spice, oak and biscuit malt. The finish is fruity with a lingering citrus aftertaste. Pretty good all around.
750 ml EXPLOSIVE bottle courtesy of CraftBeerDesign (thanks Geoff) poured a hazy golden amber with a small lasting off white head. Aromas of grapefruit, orange zest, straw, ginger, coriander and light wood. Palate wass light bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of straw, ginger, copriander, orange zest, light grapefruit and light wood with a crisp dry lingering spiced finish.
Lateral tasting from bottles from Lueken Liquours. Grapefruit, a little sweet and subtle spicy. The real show was the greatest gusher in thousands of beer bttles opened.Lighter colour than the cedar.
Tasting three beers of the Dos Costas Oriente series, Cedar, Gapefruit and Lemon, courtesy of Sammy. Explosive carbonation, almost 3/4 of the bottle was lost in a gushing stream 2 feet high. Cloudy dirty ochre, muted flavours. Nice aromas.
Total bottle bomb. Half of the beer exploded when opening. Smelled like bad funk, tasted even worse. Shared half the bottle between 5 guys, and we couldn’t finish half of what we poured. Total drainpour for what was left. I am glad that I didn’t open it at my house, and instead at my buddies place. Otherwise I would have had to clean up this abomination. I normally love CCB beers, but this was total garbage.
"Jabberwocky"
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Name: Dos Costas Oeste
Date: November 04, 2012
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: gusher, hazy orange, fine white head, sudsy lace
Aroma: dry spicy aroma, peppery, hint of citrus, floral, hint of funk
Flavor: sweet and spicy flavor, lots of spicyness, touch of wood, light funk, good complexity
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *** /4
[4745-20120818] Bottle. Light lemony citrus yeast aroma. Slightly hazy, light orange brown body with no lasting head. Bitter citrus yeast flavour. Medium body. Nice and citrus. (7/3/7/3/15) 3.5
(@ Campground Brewdown 2012, Millmont, PA)
December 15, 2012 bottle shared by Bvery. Got off to a great start with this one that exploded all over my kitchen floor. Cloudy yellow orange pour with some head. Grapefruit, wood, funk and spice in aroma. Taste was citrus and spicy with a mild alcohol finish.
Bottle share by BVery, has aromas of lemon/citrus funk. Taste is similar with a bit of spice and earthiness.
Bomber. F-ing exploded all over the place upon opening. Half the bottle gone. Hazy gold pour with a white head. Awesome sour grapefruit nose and a similar taste. Good stuff if you can manage to get it in your glass.
750ml bottle-gusher then white-cloudy gold. A-sour berry, grapefruit, yeast, lt malt. T-sour berry/lemon, vinegar, wood, yeast, lt malt-bread.
Pineapple and star fruit nose. Cloudy amber, medium head. Star fruit dominated flavor, perhaps a pineapple aspect, tropical regardless.Thin body. Refreshing very fruity. Nice.
In short: An awful mess.
How: Bottle 750ml shared at Camping Brewdown 2012. This bottle thanks (using the term loosely) to GodOfThunder, you suck Jay.
The look: Cloudy orange-blond body topped by a persistent small white head leaving lots of lacings on the glass.
In long: Nose is weird, not to brag that I’ve been intimate with a girl at least once before but yep, something reminiscent of girl genitals here, Also more “normal” aroma of grapefruits, lemon and wood. Scary aroma overall. Taste is just as off. Taste is spicy-sweet, spicy oak, sweet canned fruits juice, ripe grapefruits, sweet vegetables, ginger, green plants, corriander. No alcohol presence. I liked the original cedar version of this beer but the two gimmicky versions (Lemon Wood & Grapefruit Wood) are absurd messes and almost feel like the good people at CCB are just playing a joke on us just to see if the usual pro-CCBs would give good ratings to any crap with the CCB logo on it. Really bad beer. The good news is that this failed experiment is not going to stop CCB from making other crazy experiments. No wait, sorry, that’s the bad news.