Cisco Baileys Ale

Brewed by Cisco Brewers
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Nantucket, Massachusetts USA

Alright, so this one’s lovingly named after Bailey the Dog. That’s sweet. Bailey sure has become an increasingly popular dog name over the past several years. Doesn’t anyone name their dog Doctor Bacon these days? Appearance: Pours a hazy, dull golden body with a smallish, fizzy-looking, white head. Smell: Soft pale malts aroma with rich supporting notes of fruity peaches, flowers, and pithy hops. Taste: Pale maltiness sporting a slight graininess and a small bit of tangy malted wheat close behind. There’s a delicate sweet and flavors of fruit wildflowers, but this is expeditiously plowed away by a strong, caustic hop bitterness. Coarse, pithy hop character. Finishes quite dry and crisp with a long, lingering bitterness. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Highly carbonated. Drinkability: There’s some good there, but with its copious amount of bitterness and, for me, over-abundant carbonation, it was a bit of chore to finish.

22 oz bomber-poured a cloudy golden color w/a HUGE foamy tan head. Thing was over top the glass like a snow cone & you could actually make designs & shapes in the head. Crisp hop aroma. Ridiculous amount of lacing & carbonation-although it didn’t affect the taste. Had a grassy hop flavor which just bordered on being over the top-but didn’t cross over. Had some citrus & spice to it as well. Long crisp hop finish, alcohol was well hidden. Kind of different, but I enjoyed it.

Bottle thanks to John. Hazy golden pour with big light yellow/white head... HUGE head, actually... the biggest I’ve ever seen. A bit over carbonated. Citrus and pear and yeast on the nose, and a bit odd on the palate... malty and some grassy hop presence... more than expected. Spicy. Interesting.

It ranks high in my book, and not because I’m from the island either. I smelled some form of citrus when I opened this. The head was ok. I tasted some more citrus, and that was it.

750ml Bottle: Aroma of hops, citrus, wheat, and light fruits. Poured gold/yellow in color with a large, dense, creamy, pillowy, off-white head that lasted throughout. Cloudy. Full of tiny particles throughout. Sparkling. Excellent lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of citrus and grassy hops, resin, light spices, coriander, and hints of yeast and wood. Medium body. Coats the mouth in a thin film. Average carbonation. Hoppy, grassy, lightly spiced finish. Very drinkable for 7.5%ABV, which is not detectable. Finally a Cisco bottle that did not just foam!

Bottle shared by Dogbrick and bluemeow: This is one of those beers whose aroma supercedes the flavor in a bad way. This beer was a foam bomb, but the beer that I could see was a cloudy orange. Aroma of retired 80-year-old French hooker. Couldn’t really get past the perfume and the shuddering from old memories.

Bottle from Oak Tree Discount Wines & Spirits in South Plainfield, NJ. This brew is a hazy golden color with a very thick and fizzy white head that burns away steadily. Spiderwebs of lacing on the glass. Aroma of pine and perfumy hops, along with a bit of tart fruit. Medium-bodied with a good amount of carbonation. The flavor is floral and perfumed hops with notes of pine and light malt. The finish is moderately bitter hops with fruit in the background. The beer improves as it warms, however it never seems to fully come together.

Bomber, shared. Pours a hazy gold with a fluffy white head. Aroma is floral hops with earthy notes thrown in. Taste is malt and spice up front, dissolving into earthy/grassy notes, with a nice hop crispness at the end. Remains smooth throughout, and very solid overall.