Name – Maduro Brown Ale
Country – United States
Type – American Brown Ale

I always enjoy drinking a brew from Florida’s own Cigar City and I know Maduro will be no different.  I’ve had this one plenty of times on draft and now that 12 ounce bottles are available I just had to pick this up for a review.

Recently a very well know and well respected person in the craft beer community took a pretty public low blow at Cigar City for this beer.  He said that it tasted like “dime store chocolate” and that his brown ale was much better.  The individual also proceeded to bash Cigar City’s Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Ale as well.  But I won’t get into that.  You can do some searching and probably find out about this if you wish.

So I poured the beer into my nifty Cigar City snifter and it came out mostly brown color.  There were some hints of very dark red in there as well but brown is the color.  The head was a very thin tan head that was gone very quickly.

The smell brings forward scents of oatmeal and cinnamon mostly.  But there is some hints of tobacco as well as a slight smokiness to it.

The taste is awesome.  A nice rich blend of oatmeal, cinnamon and milk chocolate come out first back by a roasted malt character.  There is a small cameo by a coffee taste but not for very long.  So all is well to me.

I have to admit this was a pretty easy review for me to do.  I’ve had this beer many times before and have loved it ever since the 09 Treasure Coast Beer Festival where I had it for the first time.  This is an awesome sessionable brown ale.  And while I like the other brewery’s brown ale as well, this one is just fuller in body and flavor.

Florida go out and get your hands on this beer.  If you aren’t in Florida and want this beer, let me know.  We can try to work something out.

Grade – A