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Clipper City Heavy Seas Red Sky At Night

Clipper City Heavy Seas Red Sky At Night

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A Saison brewed by
Clipper City Brewing Co.

Baltimore, Maryland USA

bottled
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on tap
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3593.23/5.03.23/5.0Summer8%27 Tulip P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Pils, Carapils, and wheat malts, Belgian candi sugar
Magnum and Styrian Goldings Hops
This beer is brewed in the Belgian Saison style (country farm house ale). A potent yet delicate ale, brewed with a unique Belgian yeast which develops a spicy, fruity flavor. Enormously complex. Available from May to around August.

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 moseslikesbeer (166), conestoga, Pennsylvania, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/54/102/57/20

Jun 6, 2008  
bottle. very cloudy pale yellow color.smells like pins sol or cleaner. banana / citrus taste that has a very bland aftertaste. Kind of tastes like sweat.Not gonna try this one again.

 jcwattsrugger (3862), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Aug 25, 2008  
12 oz bottle-pours a foamy white head and yellow color. Aroma is spicy-coriander/clove, yeast, light malt/wheat. Taste is sweet light malt, spicy-coriander/clove/pepper, yeast, herbal. Semi dry finish. Occasional.


 CharlesDarwin (1379), State College, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Aug 24, 2008  
On tap. Noses in a very mineral heavy, soft Thai spices, with a bit of alcohol, pineapple and soap. Pours a hazed golden with a frothy, tall head in white. Flavor develops rich spiciness, then a good dense chewy malt base. I appreciate the texture of this beer and it’s inline with the other heavy seas beers, that come with a very mineral rich profile. It’s almost as if the beer has been brewed with Evian water and then filtered through cotton. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This does give a little too much phenol and quashes the overall drinkability with some alcohol and sugar, but it’s not terrible.


 Lubiere (3231), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/512/20
Aug 24, 2008  
A hazy golden ale with a thin white head. A pleasant cloves and bananas in aroma, with light vanilla notes. In mouth, a restrained spicy malt, with light herbal notes, good alcohol in final. Medium bodied. Middle of the road Saison.


 nqualls (185), Tennessee, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Aug 19, 2008  
Poured a clear yellow-gold with a two finger head. Aroma is malt and worcestershire. Flavor is the same as the aroma. Not great but not bad.


 BeerBaron617 (111), Novi, Michigan, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/517/20
Aug 17, 2008  
Well, I’m not so sure of the overall on this, as I think it’s fantastic! I guess the only thing that could be better is the carbonation, which is a bit overdone. Otherwise, it pours a hazy yellow, with fluffy white head. The aroma is of yeast and bread. And the flavor is right up there with some of the better wheat beers I have had. Lots of clove, and banana on the finish. Very tasty and drinkable. Cheers!




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