Cigar City Guava Grove Farmhouse Ale

Guava Grove is a farmhouse ale that sees a secondary fermentation on one of Tampa’s favored fruits, guava. Pairs well with fresh fish, mussels, fresh tropical fruits, and earthy cheeses.

3.6

591 reviews

Tampa, United States

Community reviews

3.8 Poured from a tap. Hazy yellow color, medium white head. Nice lip smacking tart sour taste with a very clean finish and a cedar accent.

3.6 Pours a cloudy amber with a big fluffy white head. Spicy notes on the aroma and bready yeast taste with a slight tartness. This is a great and unique saison/farm house. I prefer their old more sour recipe and I’m glad they still produce the sour versions of this.

3.4 On 06/18/2011. Clear golden body with a small creamy white head. Sweet fruit and spice aroma with some caramel. Tart fruit, slight astringency with spice and caramel. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

4.2 No bottle date. Said to be older, sour version. pours a nice hazy apricot ale with three finger of white foam. This falls and when I breath in, I get guava, guava, banana, and some sweet alcohol (like an amaretto). Nice nose. Really nice nose. Bitch be tart, nice. Some lemon, guava, hints of hay and yeast. I really like this beer and feel ill equipped to give the flavor justice. The beer was initially a little hi in carb, but fell to appropriate. Delicious beer. I heard they took the sour/funk from this. Too bad. Serving type: bottle 01-08-2012

3.4 Bottle: burnt sunburst, completely opaque with a largely volatile head; off-white & huge with good retention, leaving semi-decent lacing behind. Aroma has notes of sweet & bitter fruit... Guava is there, but not in the quantity I had hoped for. Intense pungent bitterness, very grassy with lighter tropical notes in the back... The tropical essence of the beer gives off a pear & mango vibe, too. Very grassy, earthy. Tastes has some introduced spices; clove, coriander, orange peel, almost like you’d expect in a witbier. Light fruity guava & tropical mango flavors mesh with a huge barnyard character... Lots of wet cork, wet wood, damp cellar, & musk. Almost Brett-like but even a bit funkier, not much in the way of tartness. Nice, funky farmhouse ale, but I would have liked a more explosive guava character.

3.7 Hazy amber color; Medium creamy body; Aroma of yeast, rich fruit/floral, some citrus, & spice; Flavor of slight sweet malt, yeast, citrus (notably lemon), fruit, and spice; Finish is dry and slightly tart/sour; High carbonation; Pretty decent.

2.2 750 ml bottle served in a Funky Buddha snifter. 2012 vintage. A: Pours a hazy amber color white head forming on the pour. Recedes to a thin ring that leaves some soapy lace down the glass. S: Light fruitiness some bready malts. Straight berry fruit juice on the finish of the nose. T: Dried mango with some sweet bread notes. Some pineapple with a little twinge of alcohol. There’s an odd, rubbery finish. M: Medium high carbonation with a odd finish. O: Time hasn’t done this one well. Very odd.

3.4 Golden coloured and hazy. Has a white head, medium duration. Sweet, fatty aroma with fruity notes. Flavor starts sweet, more fruit, finish bitter. Creamy texture and soft carbonation.

3.3 Rated on 01-09-2009 at Fort Wayne, IN Winter Gathering (Bottle provided by jsquire) This beer pours a small very fizzy off-white head that mostly diminished, hazy golden body, no lacing, and very little carbonation. The Aroma is yeasty, brett, fruity, and some spice. The Taste is sweet, fruity, a tad sour, brett, yeasty, spice, and has a dry finish. The Palate is bubbly. Overall, this beer has a lot of brett which is not to my liking so therefore this is a beer that I will not drink again.

3.9 The beer pours really well with a very nice deep orangish brown color to it, it passes through very little light, has a nice two finger white head, and a lot of great lacing that cling to the glass minutes afterwards. The smell is definitely heavy corrianger with orange hints, a hint of guava on the back end. The taste is great with a nice corriander flavor, light orange taste, some guava and a hnt of white pepper, a great blend. The mouthfeel is good with a nice saison bitterness, some pepper flavoring lingering and the beer is well carbonated. Overall, this is a great saison from a brewer I always heard good things about but never got to experience.

3.8 Fruchtiger Geruch, leicht säuerlich. Bequeme Restsüße. Aromen von Waldbeeren, z.B. Himbeere und Erdbeere.

3.6 750ml bottle. Pours a yellow copper color with a thin white head. Aroma is fruity and sweet with notes of guava, apple, pear, and some wheat. Flavor is light and sweet with strong fruit and guava notes, wheat, bread, some faint caramel, toffee, and hay presence as well. A light to medium body with mild spritzy carbonation and a sweet fruit finish.

3.9 Hazy reddish pour. Tart and drying initially. Almost puckering. A slight alcohol warming. Very fruity. Wow. Good stuff. ---Rated via intercellular device

3.4 bottle from beechner224, many thanks. pours murky amber, nose of sugar and guava. taste is slightly sweet, guava abound. booze burn is warming.

3.8 Bottle. Pours a foggy orange color with a thick, thick white head. Sour, tart aroma with a hint of figs and guava. Thick taste with malt, guava, and kiwi. Very carbonated with a light finish. First beer from Cigar City and I am very impressed.

3.5 Muddled dark brownish pour. Small off-white head. Not much lacing. Tangy fruit aroma. Citrusy. Taste is a very tart fruit. Very mouth puckering but in a good way.

2.7 A - pours light coppery yellow with 1 finger white head. Leaves a thin layer. S - aromas of booze and malts. Some coconut and oak. Quiet tropical fruits and peaches. Simple malty and boozy. M - medium body, weak palate. Malty like mad. T - booze, oak and heavy caramel and vegetal malts are drowned out by weird half rotten guava and pit fruit. O - Muddled and uninspired. 2.8

3.6 Pours a reddish orange. The beer has a slight haze and a full white head that quickly falls leaving no lacing. The aroma has some of the earthy farmhouse tones but it also has a slight fruity aroma. As with the last two CCB saisons I had, this one is super effervescent. Very soda-like. The carbonation tingle kills most of the flavor. There is a slight sweetness but it is very well done for a "fruit beer".

2.1 Bottle via Hopscotch and served in my St Bernardus chalice: Pinkish coppery hue with a long lasting fizzy head. The aroma is a smack down of fruit and booze... peach, mango, strawberry, Tequila, fresh oak whiskey and some caramel and biscuity malts. The taste is more of the same, silly stupid amount of tropical and fleshy fruit over a layer of non-descript malts with some herbal hops bitterness upon the finish. There is an acidic tartness and acetone overtones that seems to be misplaced, like it is there but forced instead of just letting the fruit do the work. The acidity and medicinal notes are very unwelcomed... very disappointed. I wonder how old this bottle is, ’cause this screams of some the issues this beer had back in 2009/10

3.3 Gyllen farve med hvitt skum som ligger. Fruktig lukt. Smak av fruktig søtlig humle. Cardinal.

3.7 Frisk duft av citrus og urter. Friskt sprudlende skum. God smak av banan og citrus..

3.3 Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange with no head. The aroma is a strong fruit and spice. Medium mouthfeel with a sweet fruit, wheat, and light grass. Hides alcohol well, a good fruit beer from CCB.

3.4 750ml bottle. Clear amber colour with average, frothy to macropore, diminishing, minimally lacing, off-white head. Fruity aroma, mango, peach, guava, minimally peppery yeasty overtones. Taste is fruity, peach, mango, guava, floral hoppy overtones; lively carbonation.

3.3 750ml bottle @Cimmeria, Oviedo. Some grapefruit and tart aromas. Pours murky orange, with average white head. Medium body, highly carbonation, some lacing. Taste is some fruity, subtle tart, short aftertaste.

3.2 750ml bottle. Pours a medium gold, with a white head. Fruity, spicy aroma, orange peel, guava, mango, cedar, caramel, peach. Off-dry, medium bodied, low to mid bitterness, balanced CO2. Fruity taste, peach, mango, quite spicy, wheat, wood (?). Bottled in May 2011, this one has really started going down hill. Quite likely pretty good when fresh. (2013-06-12)

3.5 Bottle. Tons of fruit on the aroma, very easy to drink. light, crisp and quite good.

3.8 #500 qua administratie dan Thanks to @Countbeer for the trade! Heb deze speciaal bewaard, had het idee dat het wel een goed bier moest wezen amber/oranje, geel/witte kraag welke vrij snel afvlakt aroma: floraal, citrus, rood fruit, hmm wat beperkt... smaken: stevig bittertje, licht zuurtje, stevig gekruid, caramel, tropisch fruit, meloen, guave blijkbaar ;), lichte vanille, gist, kruidig medium body, zacht in de mond, laag qua co2, afdronk: lang bitter/kruidig/zoetig tevens iets van wijntonen in de smaak. goed gebalanceerd, aardig, geen topper

3.6 Sample at CBC 2013. Clear amber colour with a white head. Aroma and flavour of yeast, fruit, malt and spicy notes.

3.5 Bottle @CBC13. Aroma with loads of fruit, reminding of multivitamin juice. Taste is sweet and fruity, some yeast, sweet and tart. Decent

4.2 Tropical saison; very nice! Strong Belgian spices and tropical fruits wafting from an off-white topped dirty and cloudy orange pour. Spices are abundant in taste, as is a good amount of sweetness (guava?). Although well carbonated, a hefty mouthfeel. Spiciness continues to dance on your tongue even when there’s nothing there. This is good!