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Clipper City Heavy Seas Loose Cannon Hop3

Clipper City Heavy Seas Loose Cannon Hop3

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An India Pale Ale (IPA) brewed by
Clipper City Brewing Co.

Baltimore, Maryland USA

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6043.75/5.03.75/5.07.25%92.5 Shaker, Tulip P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Malts: Crisp English Pale, Carapils, and Munich
Hops: Magnum, Centennial, Chinook, Amarillo and Palisade
Loose Cannon Hop3 Ale is a triple hopped IPA containing over 3 pounds of hops per barrel. Not for the faint of palate, it has an intensely floral, spicy, and citrusy hop aroma and flavor. Available year round

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 dmac (799), Toms River, New Jersey, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/515/20

Apr 27, 2008  
12 oz bottle given to me by a friend that I converted to craft beer. Pours a great looking orange with a large pillowy creamy head, real impressive. Aroma is tons of hops, piney resin, grapefruit rind, and smoothed out with some grainy malts. Medium to full bodied with a strong dose of carbonation, creamy mouthfeel and a slightly bitter finish. Flavor of fresh hops, caramel, floral hops, bitter citrus and slight grain. Really well done IPA, bordering on IIPA territory. This beer is called Loose Cannon but after drinking a few of these I am finding that my pants are no longer that loose, damn irony.

scotch4281 (20), Hollywood, Florida, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/514/20
Jul 26, 2008  
If you like hoppy beer than this is the beer for you! Definitely a good IPA without that overwhelming grapefruit bite. Sampled at Florida Beer Fest.


 JesseM (345), Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/104/518/20
Jul 26, 2008  
12 oz. bottle given to me by Jan Primus (thanks again Jan!). Pours a nice deep golden with an orange tinge to it, and a medium white head. Aroma is perfect, sublte yet incredibly forward, floral and piney hopness, great stuff. Flavour is delicious! Perfect bitterness and hop character, and delicate sweetness from the solid caramel malt body. This stuff is awesome! Aftertaste is a perfectly balanced blend of the whole package. This is the best balanced IPA I’ve ever had. Awesome stuff. My favourite IPA I’ve had so far, maybe because I have a thing for Munich malts.


darrylgh (6), Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, USA
does not count click to see why this rating of Clipper City Heavy Seas Loose Cannon Hop3 does not count
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Jul 25, 2008  
On Tap, wow what a hop BANG!!! Very nice hop aroma with a citrus note. Pours nice copper color with a nice whit head. Great lace throughout the whole beer. This is by far one of the best IPA’s I have had. It hits you at first with hops than smoothes out with a nice bitter ending. They should call this loaded cannon because it is loaded with HOPS!!!


 Russo (434), Campinas, Brazil
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Jul 22, 2008  
Bottled @Marty’s Newton, MA. Golden color like a scotch, a slim but persistent cramy white head. Aroma is complex, sweety, floral and fruity, notes of apricot, citrus. Flavor is sweet, spicy and notes of alcohol. Mouth feel is spicy and bitter. Very good beer with a nice price @ Marty’s. THis place is the beer Paradise!


 BeerFanDan17 (331), Land O Lakes, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/514/20
Jul 21, 2008  
Very tasty and hoppy IPA. Crisp and spicy. Sampled at the St. Pete Florida Craft Beer Fest.




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