Our August End of Summer Perfect Pairings is your opportunity to enjoy five tasty craft beers coupled with five flavorful premium cigars that you’ll want to enjoy before the leaves turn brown and the weather gets cooler. Enjoy our selections, and have fun finding the pairings that are perfect for you!
North Park Beer Co. Art Is Hard & La Gloria Cubana Esteli Robusto
North Park Beer Co. Art is Hard is a delicious hazy IPA made with Simcoe, Citra, and Motueka hops culminating in flavors of juicy tangerine, orange, tropical fruity pineapple, and guava! Art is Hand has a lusciously smooth mouthfeel brought to you by copious amounts of creamy malted oats and heirloom Halcyon malt delivered with a refreshingly smooth and soft finish.
La Gloria Cubana Estelí Robusto is a classic blend of the finest aged Honduran and Nicaraguan fillers covered by a stunningly dark and oily Nicaraguan Maduro wrapper. you will savor a medium to full-bodied smoke teeming with scrumptious flavors of cedar, white pepper, chocolate, and caramel, that contrasts, yet fully compliments and beautifully enhances Art Is Hard’s intricate flavor profile.
Firestone Walker Brewing Company Gen-6 & Samurai Toro
Firestone Walker Brewing Company Gen-6 is a nice bitter and hoppy ale with the flavors of pineapple, mango, raisins, and honey, accented with notes of pine and some resiny bitterness that gently lingers on the palate.
Samurai Toro is the latest creation from AJ Fernandez, the cigar master responsible for some of the finest and most popular premium cigars produced in Nicaragua. The blend is composed of rare Criollo and Piloto Cubano long filler tobaccos from Nicaragua covered by a Criollo binder and a beautiful, silky smooth Ecuadorian Habano wrapper. This is a medium-to-full-bodied cigar, offering rich, complex flavors of earth, white pepper, leather, and cinnamon, backed by a sweet, fruity finish.
Firestone Walker Brewing Company Gen-6 & Samurai Toro provide an amalgamation of delicious flavors that meld seamlessly together with each other.
New Belgium Mountain Time & NightShade by Drew Estate Robusto
New Belgium Mountain Time is a premium Lager that pours with a light-yellow hue with almost no head. This lager has a peppery grain nose with grain flavors. The beer starts with a hint of vinegar, soon followed by spice, coriander, and subtle hints of citrus that end with a sweet grain finish. Overall, it's a nice easy-to-drink light beer.
Nightshade by Drew Estate Robusto cigars is expertly rolled at the La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate factory with the finest aged blend of Dominican and Nicaraguan long-fillers covered by very dark and oily Connecticut Habano wrapper. Each puff reveals hearty notes of chocolate, black pepper, espresso, and hints of dried fruit, backed by a creamy sweet finish.
New Belgium Mountain Time & NightShade by Drew Estate Robusto is an epicurean pairing best enjoyed after a fine gourmet meal.
Full Sail Brewing Cascade Pilsner & H. Upmann Nicaragua Heritage by AJ Fernandez Toro
Full Sail Cascade Pilsner is a German Pilsner-style beer brewed by Full Sail Brewing Company in Hood River, Oregon. It has intense aromas of citrus and pine, supported by medium-bodied notes of graham cracker, and hints of honey, backed by a dry malty finish.
Answering the call for this perfect pairing is the H. Upmann Nicaragua Heritage by AJ Fernandez. This deftly rolled Churchill is composed of the finest fully aged Cuban-seed Nicaraguan binder and long filler tobaccos covered by an oily and dark Brazilian wrapper leaf that has been triple fermented for added smoothness. The result is a medium-to-full-bodied smoke with rich expressions of flavor that includes earth, oak, leather, and spice, all backed by plenty of sweetness on a long-lasting finish.
Every hour is a happy hour when you pair Full Sail Brewing Cascade Pilsner with H. Upmann Nicaragua Heritage by AJ Fernandez Toro.
Cigar City Brewing Florida Man & Plasencia Alma del Fuego Candente Robusto
Cigar City Brewing Company Florida Man is an expression of American craft brewing ingenuity. The beer pours a rich golden brown color with a frothy head that leads to multi-layered notes of dark fruit, and lemon zest, balanced by hop bitterness and malt sweetness that further evolves as the beer warms in the glass and passes over the palate.
Plasencia Alma del Fuego Candente Robusto cigars pay tribute to premium tobaccos from Ometepe, a fertile Island between two volcanic mountains that is famed for producing the blackest and richest soils in the country. The Ometepe tobaccos are used for the double binder and part of the filler blend that has been aged for seven years. A beautifully boxed pressed Cuban seed Nicaraguan wrapper adds layers of chocolate and pepper to a hearty mix of leather, roasted nuts, and hints of dried fruit.
Expect an explosion of decadent flavors when you pair Cigar City Brewing Florida Man with Plasencia Alma del Fuego Candente Robusto.
