Heavy Seas Mutiny Fleet Letter of Marque 2010: Rye Porter

Formerly brewed at Heavy Seas Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Serve in Snifter

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Name: Heavy Seas Letter of Marque
Date: September 05, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brusin Ales, Asheville NC
Vintage: 2010
Appearance: dark brown with ruby edges, fine tan head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet spicy aroma, rich chocolate, fruity sweetness, rye spicyness, light smokeyness
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor, dry rye, light fruityness, touch of roasted bitterness, long bitter finish
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

(22oz bottle, courtesy of blutt59) Pours a dark brown body with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramel, rye, toffee, cocoa, and toasted bread. Flavor of rye, toasted bread, caramel, baking cocoa, and grass with a dry, bitter finish.

22oz bottle. Medium beige head atop clear dark brown body, nice lacing. Aroma is medium sweet, pine, rye, some bittersweet chocolate, light caramel. Taste is moderately sweet, pine, some bittersweet chocolate, rye. Smooth medium body, some acidity, fairly drinkable. Put it among some black IPAs and it’d fit right in. But whatever style it is, it’s pretty tasty -- hats off to the homebrewer who developed the recipe.

Bomber from Bruisin Ales. Pours really dark brown with a foamy, clingy 4 finger beige/tan head. Aromas of dark malt and some hop. Medium plus body with lots of foamy carbonation. Flavor is very hoppy. The rye harshness, sorry other rye lovers, is present, there’s a strong hint of coffee/chocolate, and there’s a lot of hop bitter. Love rye. Love hops. Love this.

Bottle. Poured dark brown color with an average frothy brown head that mostly lasted with excellent lacing. Moderate toasted malty, earthy and rye aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium to heavy dark toasted bittersweet flavor with medium to heavy bittersweet finish of moderate to long duration. Solid complex beer.

22oz bottle. Poured a dark brown color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of toasted rye with some roast and caramel tastes of rye, caramel, spicy, and chocolate.

A red copper ale with a thick moka head. In aroma, a nice fruity hops with treacle and caramel. In mouth, a smooth DIPA with oily biscuitty malt, orange pulp, pinhey c-hops, all very nice and classy. On tap at Brewvival, Feb. 26 2011.

Deep ruddy brown pour with a sticky white head. The nose is very spicy with loads of rye malt apparent over a soft but deep cocoaish base. There is a touch of American hop pinyness over the malt. Really bright on the nose with excellent balance between the spicy rye and spicy/piny hops. The palate seems a bit thinner than I would have expected from a rye beer. Peppery with notes of coffee and light roasted barley. Fairly thin-bodied but it’s tasty enough. Very hoppy actually - almost to IPA territory. Whatever it is - it’s good.

Bottle: Pours a nearly opaque dark mahogany with small froth of light tan head. Has a sweet dark caramel and chocolate malty nose with some notes of spicy rye and fresh piny hops. Starts with good sweetness and toasty dark caramel malty flavor well-balanced with an assertive hoppiness before a smooth chocolatey bittersweet finish. An enjoyable and well-made imperial porter.

2010 Bottle thanks to captain cougar. Pours with a near black body with a large and fluffy off-white head. Aromas of rye, citrus hops (orange mainly), cereal, alcohol, brown sugar and light roast. Very floral and pretty estery as well. Flavors of rye, bitter and astringent roast. Husky, acrid, roasty, chalky, messy! Very confusing after such a nice aroma. Creamy carbonation. Something is seriously wrong with the acidic nature and acrid taste of the grain bill.