Heavy Seas Brewing Company Reviews

b3shine	3.6 Heavy Seas Blackbeard's Breakfast Bottle to snifter, shared with the Mrs (2024 vintage). Pours a very slightly translucent very dark cola with beige head that slowly but steadily dissipates into lacing. Smells and tastes malty with notes of chocolate, coffee, roast, oak, and caramel. Mouthfeel is medium full-bodied, very mildly warming, and moderately bitter. Good, not great. Solid for the price though. Sunday, April 21, 2024
MrTipple	3.6 Heavy Seas Powder Monkey 01Aug2023 Sweet grain and cereal malts, candied citrus fruits, lemon, orange, caramel. Slightly hazy gold, small, frothy, white head. Light bitter. Bittersweet grain and cereal malts, caramel, candied citrus and tropical fruits, soft carb, full bod. Very nice. Cask at GBBF22. Sunday, April 21, 2024
MrTipple	3.8 Heavy Seas Hazy Cannon 01Aug2023 Juice tropical and citrus fruits, mango, tangerine, orange. Hazy gold, tiny, frothy, white head. Light bitter. Bitter, jucy tropical and citrus fruits, sweet tangerine, mango, papaya, pineapple, soft carb, full bod. Very nice, rich, well-balanced. Cask at GBBF22. Sunday, April 21, 2024
Theydon_Bois	3.9 Heavy Seas Double Cannon - Bourbon Barrel Aged Panda at home, thanks to SHIG, 17/04/24. Golden amber with an off white cap that clears to a swirl. Nose is mellow bourbon, bitter orange, grapefruit peeping through the barrel, caramel malts. Taste comprises caramel malts, candied orange peel, pine nip, earthy hop, well integrated bourbon, sharp citric bite, bourbon soaked oak. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close splashed with bourbon and mellow hop bitterness allied to a balanced spike of alcohol. Works well ... I'd have styled as American Strong on a blind taste for sure! Wednesday, April 17, 2024
cheap	1.4 Heavy Seas TropiCannon - Mango Lime First let me say that I am the wrong ratebeerian to rate this beer for style. Back in 2004 when I started following RB, all my RB peers said my pallet would mature to IPA; well, it didn't. I guess I'll never grow up to a be a RB adult, I'll always be a RB kiddoh. But just because its beer, I'll somewhat like it after a hard day of yardwork hauling around and leveling garden soil; especially because it will provide a near 8% dopamine slam. Any who, this beer pours a darker off pale and slightly hazy. Very nice creamy holding head. The nose is certainly fruity, difficult to pick out any IPA hops on the nose. Not sure if I find any lime in the olfactory either. First taste is what else? A big fat hoppy bitter slam in the face, with an after taste that provides a small amount of phenolic astringent bite, blah. Terribly on style. Now there is this warming sensation easing its way down my throat. In the middle, I think I am getting some fruit but to say its lime or mango is a stretch. Its so one sided with the hops, like any good IPA should. Rude ass brew that is quite difficult for my girlie lager loven taste buds to endure, whew. The finish? It's mouthcoating and somewhat viscous. What else can be said except it ruined my taste buds for a half hour? There, you have it. Somebody please get me a clean clear ice cold cheap pale lager for a chaser. Sunday, April 7, 2024
SHIG	4 Heavy Seas Double Cannon - Bourbon Barrel Aged Can thanks to Sloth: Poured a caramel with a creamy beige head. Aroma is boozy, hoppy, bourbon, opens the eyes alcohol. Taste is rugged hops, whiskey bourbon bite, caramel, citrus, burning alcohol. Sunday, March 31, 2024
alexsdad06	3.6 Heavy Seas 28th Anniversary Ale 16 oz. can from Root Cellar shared with Mike. Pours a clear dark golden amber color with a medium sized beige head that disappeared quickly. The aroma and flavor have toasted malts, fruity, caramel, bready, a mild mineral note to the finish, good. Friday, March 8, 2024
sloth	2.5 Heavy Seas Midnight Diver Medium white head and I've never seen a head die off that fast!! I mean like five seconds or less! Murky cider appearance. Mild nose, mango and tart berries. Light body with no real carbonation to speak of, fairly tart. I can't even rouse a head on this stuff! Mild berry, slight malts and maybe some watermelon notes. I guess the attraction is the fleeting tart/sourness?? Dry, tart finish. Another discombobulated brew from our friends at,,,, Heavy Seas. Glad I only bought a single, had a feeling. 12oz can from statelineliquors. Wednesday, March 6, 2024
beastiefan2k	3.4 Heavy Seas Glacial Drift Draft at brewery. Old-school spices on a slightly stick body. Rook me for a loop, a blast from the past. I get some cherry coming through, which is probably from the strong alcohol. I would’ve loved it in the past and it’s actually very drinkable but definitely spice bomb. I’m into the old-school vibe but it makes sense why we don’t see this much anymore. Saturday, March 2, 2024
Cybercat	3.6 Heavy Seas Midnight Diver Pours clear caramel with a short-lived beige head. Aroma produces tart blackberries, zesty mango, hints of stonefruit and herbs. Flavor releases the same, only stronger. Texture generates nice body and peppy leaning towards lively fizz. Did you hear about the midnight diver? Saturday, March 2, 2024
beastiefan2k	3.6 Heavy Seas Impending Doom Sub Zero Draft at brewery. I though someone lite up as I first sniffed this beer. Damn, they got the sticky green aroma down. Also surprisingly, as sloth mentions, relativity light and drinkable body for a beer this big. Low sweetness for this size. A really bitter hop finish to also help fight the alcohol and potential sweetness perception. If I wanted a sticky ichy smell in a strong abv with a relatively unsweet and bitter beer, this is a hit. Though, I’m unsure how often I want that. A little extra props for hitting this tough spot. Thursday, February 29, 2024
beastiefan2k	3 Heavy Seas 28th Anniversary Ale - Bourbon Barrel Draft at the source. Oh man, why would this taste like apple brandy. Lots of Belgian seeetness and malts, thick feel. But surprisingly goes down easier than expected down the gullet. More weird barrel rather than alcohol being over the top. Look, for a beer this big and barrel the expectations are low and this may be just a hint above those expectations. Maybe. Thursday, February 29, 2024
glennmastrange	3.3 Heavy Seas TropiCannon Can. Moderate caramel for the malt, herbs for hops, light soap for the yeast, with lots of citrus juice and peefume in the background. Head is average sized, frothy/creamy, with good lacing, and is mostly lasting. Color is slightly hazy orange amber. Flavor starts lightly sweet and moderately acidic, then finishes lightly acidic and moderately bitter. Palate is medium, slick, with a lively carbonation. An okay drinking beer, and Heavy Seas makes some good IPAs but this flavored version is too artificial tasting for me. Saturday, February 24, 2024
solidfunk	3.2 Heavy Seas 1937 In the Beginning Caramel. Dark copper pour. Light tangy finish. Some rust. Can shared at tasting. Earlier Rating: 12/11/2023 Total Score: 3 Caramel and tin. Copper pour with decent head. Fairly crisp finish. Can. Maybe should be a Vienna? Wednesday, February 21, 2024
sloth	3 Heavy Seas Triple Cannon Small tan head, fair retention, plenty of lace. Hazy, ugly azz amber hued brew, pitiful lookin thing. nose of rubbing alcohol, caramel malts and something kinda herbaceous. Full on the palate, soft carbonation. Boozy flavors, faint pine and caramel malts, dry, little grain. barleywine territory really. Pretty dry, fruity yeasts finish. A nudder tough one from our folks at Heavy seas! WHEWWWW!! 16oz cans from statelineliquors. Sunday, February 18, 2024
drfabulous	3.5 Heavy Seas 28th Anniversary Ale 16 ounce can. A fairly bright orange pour some sharp strong ale taste with malty fruit notes some caramel sweet Friday, February 9, 2024
explosivedog	3.1 Heavy Seas Loose Cannon On tap. Pours gold orange. Pine, grapefruit, biscuit, little tropical, little chalk. Medium body. Fine. Thursday, February 8, 2024
drsordr	3.7 Heavy Seas Triple Cannon Can shared by alexsdad06 pour clear copper with large white head. Nose syrup, malt, light dank. Taste moderate bitter up front, dank, grapefruit, sweet malt, green apple, light caramel. Wednesday, February 7, 2024
jgb9348	2.9 Heavy Seas TropiCannon - Strawberry Banana Super clear, but deep golden and light copper coloured body with a thinnish, but noticeable one centimetre tall tan head that leaves a thin lace on top after a few minutes. Aroma of very strong strawberries and bananas - just like a smoothie - very strong in the nose. Light to Medium-bodied; Super pungent and offensive, bitter and strong hops and aggressive, bitter hops show up front with a lot of alcohol and deep bitterness from the pervasive fruits, which are very strong and perhaps too bitter. Aftertaste shows the bitterness and pure astringent alcohol notes way more than anything else - a lot stronger in the finish than I was expecting - this one was very hard to get down! Overall, not such a great beer, especially for how pungent and deep/assertive this was with limited fruit notes - not so enjoyable and a bit too funky! I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Wegman's [grocery] in Fairfax, Virginia on 18-September-2022 for US$2,33 (part of a mixed six pack), best by 06-December-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 05-October-2022. Tuesday, February 6, 2024
jgb9348	3.7 Heavy Seas TropiCannon - Mango Lime Super crisp and very clear deep copper and light brown coloured body with a deep amber glow, all with a pretty nice two centimetre tall large-bubbled light brown and tan head. Aroma of super strong and bitter lime and mango notes with a ton of dryness and grassy notes, but the bitterness from the alpha acids are strong. Medium-bodied; Very crisp and bitter dry and grassy, herbal malts show at first with a bunch of perfumey notes, but the alpha acid bitterness and punch from this is very strong, especially on the end. Aftertaste is dry, very limey, with a lot of citrus notes, but also some crisp mangoes as well, with a rather strong malt quality that has a lot of pungency, but enough to support the hop bitterness of the alpha acids and the citrus fruits. Overall, a strong and older school IPA, with real bitterness, although more of it is seemingly from the limes and mangoes than from the hops, but this is nicely balanced and structured well. Nice to try, soon after purchase and local - not a bad beer at all - interesting! I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Wegman's [grocery] in Fairfax, Virginia on 18-September-2022 for US$2,33 (part of a mixed six pack) with a 'Best By' date of 28-August-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 28-September-2022. Sunday, February 4, 2024
BelgianBeerGal	3.4 Heavy Seas Oktoberfest Bottle randomly found in Pensacola at Beach Liquor. Overall a fairly nice fest beer with lightly sweet malt and mild bitterness. Bready with some lager yeast. Fine. Saturday, February 3, 2024
MadWill08	3.4 Heavy Seas Double Cannon - Barrel Aged Thursday, February 1, 2024
sloth	3 Heavy Seas 28th Anniversary Ale Medium sized beige head, fair retention, no lacing really. Lightly hazed copper colored brew, a few tiny bubbles slowly rising. Aromas of super glue, fruity yeast esters and semi sweet malts. Med/full bodied, little carbo, lil oily, slick. Some candy sugar notes, fruity yeasts, lightly sweet malts, bread, booze, just kinda leading nowhere really, kinda jumbled mess with a warming finish. Buzz factor is ,, good! Pretty much a one and done kinda brew. 12oz bottle. Saturday, January 27, 2024
Foxbush	3.7 Heavy Seas The Red Eclipse 12 oz bottle from Total Wine and More in Short Pump, VA The stout poured and opaque black with a tan head and very limited lacing. The aroma of roasted malts, cherries, and vanilla greets you. The flavors are wonderful with cherries in the aftertaste after each swallow. It's smooth and easy going down, maybe a little too sweet. The stout has a medium body and soft carbonation. Friday, January 26, 2024
cheap	1.6 Heavy Seas The Red Eclipse Bottle. Eye is viscous and back as pictured. Nose is mild alky volatile vanilla. Tongue is mild tart flavor on top of mouthcoating thick brutal burnt barbaric barrage. A big boozy bowser baleful balking bane. Palate's a beaten barren befouled beleaguering feeling. Middle bemoans a bereft betrayal. Finishes with a bereft bewildering betrayal of intense blameworthy blathery. Such a boorish bossy cloying alky bomb braggart. I'm brainwashingly bristly. Whew, whiskey entrails on the end. Anybody got a beloved beautiful bundle of pale lager chaser? Monday, January 22, 2024
snoworsummer	3 Heavy Seas Well Made Can from the brewery. Pours hazy dark gold with a foamy off white head. Tastes like caramel malt, grassy hops, dough, and corn. Light body and low carbonation. Smells like dough, caramel malt, grassy hops, and corn. Sunday, January 21, 2024
cheap	1.4 Heavy Seas Impending Doom (Pink Label/Original/Hazy Double IPA) Big heavy scary volatile noxious nose of pine tar and hops perfume. Thick yellow viscous off orange milky appearance. Taste is big mouth coating obnoxious blast to the palate. Gigantic gaudy gawky gloomy gross grotesque grievous glib of gulag glum. Oh my, there's no place like home with a soft easy macro lager. This stuff is a face & jaw gripping gutless grueling somewhat harmful hateful heartless hostile humiliating half baked harassment. I hope there's always, tomorrow, there's always tomorrow, tomorrow a berliner weisse, I hope for tomorrow. It will take until tomorrow to forget I drank this bitter juicy jejune jarring jumpy jaded joyless jive turkey. If you like IPA? This stuff is terribly on style, it'll rototill your buds and ruin them for an hour to come. Better go score a can, whew. It's certainly a manly thing to do. Blah. Monday, January 15, 2024
Dogbrick	3.5 Heavy Seas Hazy Cannon Can Friday, January 12, 2024
crhensel	3.1 Heavy Seas Chocolate Volcano - Bourbon Barrel Sunday, January 7, 2024
Oakes	3.2 Heavy Seas TropiCannon Hazy amber, very fruity, citrus and papaya. Not bad hop character but the malt is only ok. Saturday, December 30, 2023
nimbleprop	2.3 Heavy Seas 1937 In the Beginning 12oz can. It's a clear, dark gold with some white head. Nose has malt and honey, some caramel. Flavor is really just the same. Basic. Off dry finish. Highly forgettable. Thursday, December 28, 2023
oh6gdx	3.2 Fordham & Dominion Rams Head IPA Bottled. Amber colour with a mediumszed beige head. Aroma is floral, hayish, some grass and mild biscuity tones. Flavour is fruity, some spices, mild hay, some grass and mild herbal tones. Ends in a quite bitter grassy and fruity way. Thursday, December 28, 2023
brads	4 Heavy Seas Chocolate Volcano - Bourbon Barrel Wednesday, December 27, 2023
snoworsummer	3.4 Heavy Seas Impending Doom 2 (West Coast Style Double IPA) Bottle from the brewery. Pours hazy gold with a foamy white head. Tastes like grapefruit hops, booze, grass, and pale malt. Light/medium body and carbonation. Smells like grapefruit hops, booze, grass, and pale malt. Tuesday, December 26, 2023
snoworsummer	3.5 Heavy Seas 28th Anniversary Ale From a bottle. Pours lightly hazy gold with a fizzy off white head. Tastes like fruity hops, faint herb, dough, and booze. Light/medium body and carbonation. Smells like dough, caramel, fruity, and faint herb. Tuesday, December 26, 2023
patrick767	4.1 Heavy Seas The Red Eclipse Pours near black with a lingering tan head. It smells of bourbon, dark roast malt, and cherries. The flavor is definitely on the sweet side though doesn’t overwhelm with it. Oaky bourbon comes through well with roast malt, cherries, and chocolate notes. Vanilla? Maybe. Very tasty. Tuesday, December 12, 2023
beastiefan2k	3 Heavy Seas 1937 In the Beginning 12oz can. Dusty malts. Somehow Englishy. I don’t get it. Very lager yeast heavy. Not for me. Monday, December 11, 2023
sdr8017	4.5 Heavy Seas Blackbeard's Breakfast Friday, December 8, 2023
drsordr	3.4 Heavy Seas Chocolate Volcano - Bourbon Barrel Can shared by alexsdad06 pour cola brown with mod tan head. Nose red fruit, soy, light prune, barrel late. Taste mineral chocolate, prune, molasses, light barrel . Little thin mouth feel. Wednesday, November 22, 2023
sloth	3.4 Heavy Seas Impending Doom Sub Zero Small white head with fair retention, nice lacing. Lightly hazed blond appearance. Light berry nose, blueberries, whiff of citrus. Body is relatively light for a 9.5%er, nice carbo level,sorta brisk and clean. Dry pale malts, hint crackery, grainy, hint of juniper and some abv kickin in. DRY, lightly fruity warming finish. 12oz bottle from Liquor Stop. Saturday, November 11, 2023
Lore	4.3 Heavy Seas Loose Cannon Opalescent orange colour, moderate sized creamy ecru head; aroma of pine resiny, marmalade, grapefruity and biscuity notes; taste is hop-dominant with the same notes as can be felt in the aroma; great IPA; my first pint of beer in the US ever :) Thursday, November 9, 2023
beastiefan2k	2.9 Heavy Seas Chocolate Volcano - Bourbon Barrel Sampler draft at brewery.I was in a hurry to drink and rate this sampler. At first I thought: old school cool for me but I probably would’ve been kind of over it back in the day but I’m OK with it now. Then, as I made my way back to it with a little time, I take it back the alcohol atop this lighter body and more flabby beer is real tough as it warms. Oh no! The alcohol is too much, rubbing alcohol is coming out and overtaking the already flabby base beer. Friday, October 27, 2023
beastiefan2k	3.2 Heavy Seas / Grey Sail Hop-toberfest Sampler at brewery. Clear dark coooer color that actually changes throughout this tulip pine sampler glass. Long lasting glass covering lacing. Looks pretty damn pretty. Clean and clear light lot piney but also lightly lemon hops. So you get some of that lemon pledge. Oh no, as this warms that takes over. There seems to be a decent marzen here that’s overtaken by lemon pledge. Friday, October 27, 2023
beastiefan2k	3.3 Heavy Seas Chocolate Volcano Sampler draft at brewery. I stopped by to try a different beer that was only made for the brewery with a special MD hop. So, I got a sampler with 3 other beers. I was in a hurry cause I need to pick up my 6 month old baby from daycare. I worked through my sampler but I was tempted to get another one and rate them quickly. So, I get 4 more sampler pours and 3 of them are big beers. This was the first one in the paddle. Important caveat, I drink this fresh of tap (i.e., cold). Definitely chocolatey and boozy. Though a nice carbonation cutting through it and a light of body so it’s not one of those bigger heavy pastry stouts. Because its a lighter body and not wild adjuncts, it’s actually relatively drinkable. This was the rating after the quick tick: 848315. However, I come back to it because I obviously don't care about getting to my baby on time. The beer doesn't have too much of those dark malts because I could see a red hued brown body at the bottom of the sampler glass. Also has a long lasting head and lacing despite the booze and not an overabundance of hops. So, looks good. A drying black malt finish but not a burnty and acidic one. As it warms it starts remind me of their (old) regular impt stout (Peg Leg), it feels a little weak and empty at times. The adjuncts actually help a bit. But I’d want a bit more body and heft. As it warms more the rougher parts of the flavor are exposed. Tastes rocky, the wrong side of mineral.Tastes thin. Now that it is warmer that alcohol s a bit too much. Here is the final rating: 646314 Friday, October 27, 2023
jgb9348	2.4 Heavy Seas / Manor Hill Partner Ships: Hazy IPA s: oranges bitter grain alcohol a: slightly hazy golden thin white head t: astringent pungent bitter p: alcohol warmth slight grapefruit bitterness crisp malts o: deep warming medicinal 12 ounce pint on draught Kloby's SmokeHouse (restaurant) Laurel/Columbia, Maryland 26-June-2023 US$7,50 Thursday, October 26, 2023
Cybercat	3.8 Heavy Seas TropiCannon - Mango Lime Pours clear reddish copper with a thick and lasting buff head. Aroma furnishes sweet mango, tangy lime, resiny hops. Flavor offers piney hops, sweet mango, tart and zesty lime, tangy grapefruit. Texture presents nice body and lively fizz. Put the lime - and mango - in the IPA and call a ride. Thursday, October 26, 2023
beastiefan2k	2.2 Heavy Seas BOHdacious Blonde Sampler at brewery. There is something about certain types of blonde ales that turns me off. And this is one of them. It has what I could best describe as a bug spray character. Also a vegetal tone throughout, not DMS but something else. I couldn’t touch this with a ten foot pole. Thursday, October 26, 2023
beastiefan2k	2.9 Heavy Seas Well Made Draft at brewery. Clear dulled gold color. Some visible bubbles. Almost no lacing. Grainy cereal wet cereal but the regular Cheerios. For the lighter body and style it’s relatively sweet. I’m not sure who this was made for but well isn’t the term I would use. Wednesday, October 25, 2023
beastiefan2k	3.7 Heavy Seas Altimore Sampler at brewery. Clear dark copper color. A long lasting and thick lacing. There are two parts to this beer, the base alt and the new Maryland hop. The alt is clean and crisp with some woody clean lager yeastiness but finishes crisp and tight throughout. Some mineral characteristics and slight malt sweetness runs through the background. The hop, well it’s not bad and they used enough to get a nice decent bitter finish. It’s not fruity or noble or oily or piney. The hop is there but it’s kind of just there as a generic hop that mimics some traditional English hops best. But I like the package. Sloth, you should check this place out. Wednesday, October 25, 2023
beastiefan2k	2.9 Heavy Seas Sir Dudley’s Dry Stout Sampler at brewery. Talk about light, the beer is red hues brown at the base but darker at the bulge if this tulip like sampler pint-like glass. Seemingly clear for a dark beer. Dat Nitroh Heaead. Surprisingly bitter at the end of flavor for a small beer with little bitter hops. So a lot of burnty malt, relative to light body. Drying on the tongue, getting near mild sandpaper feel on the palate. Tastes of dark acrid husks, it’s light but light bursts out in a small beer like this. Finish gets tougher and tougher as it warms and as my palate adjusts to this beer. Aroma has some of this cocoa and faint coffee notes. I love the way drinking body but I’m turned off by the acrid and burnt flavor and finish of the beer. I typically love and give this style extra points but this is really not my kind of take on the style Wednesday, October 25, 2023