When I lived in Seattle there was a bar in Tacoma that served a micro brew called Snowcap. This beer was the darkest beer I have ever seen, but it had a really good flavor, just a hint of sweetness to it.It was also 18%, so you couldnt drink to many. I bet that beer would be good with a strong cigar.
Originally posted by narced: When I lived in Seattle there was a bar in Tacoma that served a micro brew called Snowcap. This beer was the darkest beer I have ever seen, but it had a really good flavor, just a hint of sweetness to it.It was also 18%, so you couldnt drink to many. I bet that beer would be good with a strong cigar.
Was it an imperial stout? They are the blackest beers I know of. Most are a little hoppie tho, rather than sweet. Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout is good. I had a glass of it the other night and my wife ask me why was I drinking coffee out of a beer glass? Something to try that is very dark and a hint of sweetness is Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre. Not much hops at all. Very malty, complex taste. 8% alcohol. It's made in Delaware.
Posts: 308 | Location: Dixie | Registered: November 07, 2006
Lots of great suggestions you all made. I like an Italian beer also, with or without a cigar, which is called Peroni. It may be too "malty" for some of your tastes, but there's something about it I really enjoy. a' salut!
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the ambient sound relaxing and guy / manly thing (cheers!!!woho). but won't the beer cover up the cigar taste? i mean you only get little taste from a direct draw......especially a bit over drank
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I'm not much on having a beer with a smoke, I prefer other things, but at times when nothing else is available, I will grab a 'sweet' beer, something like Sam Adam's Cherry Wheat.......
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I think you have to find a kind of equilibrium with beer and cigar. A beer with a very high IBU (International Bittering Units-hops/bitterness) could overpower even a full bodied cigar. But then you want a beer that has some character as opposed to Corona Light or "natty light". I like beer with more malt and less IBU with a cigar.
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Originally posted by narced: When I lived in Seattle there was a bar in Tacoma that served a micro brew called Snowcap. This beer was the darkest beer I have ever seen, but it had a really good flavor, just a hint of sweetness to it.It was also 18%, so you couldnt drink to many. I bet that beer would be good with a strong cigar.
Sorry, I had to reply to this one. Snow Cap is an ale, brewed by Pyramid. I have had quite a few of these and they are not dark, nor are they 18% (more like 5 - 6%). That being said, it is an excellent beer to smoke with.
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A master brewer left A.B. and started another brewery in st.Louis called Schlafley and the pale ale is my favorite full flavored brew.
"Cuban seed tobaccos grown in Nicaragua and Cuba. The wrapper would be from Cuba. The binder leaves would be from Nicaragua. For the ligero tobacco in the filler, he would use two types, one from Esteli and the other from Jalapa in Nicaragua. The other filler components, seco and viso, would come from Cuba, the former from Villa Clara, the latter from Pinar del Rio. That Cigar, he says with pride, would score 100 points." -Don Pepin Garcia
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Shiner Bock, 96, Dunkelweizen or Kolsch are great if you can find them. Also Louisiana's Abita beer makes Turbo Dog which will get ya going. Killians,Boddingtons,Newcastle,Guiness,New Belgium Fat Tire and Abbey are good too.
I love all beers except Corona and Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale which tastes like Rosie O'Donnell looks.... not so good.
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