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Clipper City Heavy Seas Small Craft Warning

Clipper City Heavy Seas Small Craft Warning

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An European Strong Lager brewed by
Clipper City Brewing Co.

Baltimore, Maryland USA

bottled
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3653.42/5.03.42/5.00.457%89.7 Lager glass P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Malts: German Pils and Carapils
Hops: Amarillo, Saaz, Hersbrucker and Tettnang
We call this beer an Uber Pils - a pilsner style bock lager. Rich, malty, and well rounded but with a firm structure of noble hops. Surprisingly pale in color for such a powerful, complex beer. Available year round beginning Feb. 05.
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 afireinside96 (215), Mountville, Pennsylvania, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/102/513/20
May 15, 2008  
pours honey colored with an inch of tightly packed white head. smells of grapes and herbal hops. upon sipping it you are hit with a strand of sweetness that immediately recedes to a lemony bitterness, a bit nutty as well. finishes on the sticky sweet side of things. the alcohol level is fairly undetectable except with a bit of warmth present near the end. not bad, not great either, but certainly drinkable.


 lb4lb (1077), Austin, Texas, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/54/103/59/20
May 12, 2008  
My apologies if I got this in trade, as I forgot it’s source.
Pours rich golden white a medium sized whitish head. Smell is lemon, lager like malt and light alcohol. Together comes across fresh, bright and somewhat inviting. Taste is a bit dusty, chalky and lightly alcoholic without the burn, and with lager like malty characteristics and orange rind flavor. Flavorful with strong orange rind character and light malt. Very mild hop character. Citrusy, yet lager like. Definitely unique, but not particularly great, with some alcohol presence, which is a bit obtrusive at 7%.


 acearl (160), Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
May 8, 2008  
Amber Orange hue with creamy white lasting head, seems like a confused discripton that the brewer presents, more so like a really hoppy lager. Like an american ipa with out much of a lingering aftertaste, or thickness. Aftertaste was little sour Different, nice and drinkable. Nothing too uber though.


Chipper (5), Red Lion, Pennsylvania, USA
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3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
May 4, 2008  
Pours a dark golden color with a thick off-white head. Aroma is a little malty and hops are present. Flavor is a little lighter than expected and went very well a Porterhouse. Overall an excellent brew and I’d buy it again.


 Vas19 (145), Maryland, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/515/20
Apr 26, 2008  
Pours orange with a thick white head. Aroma is grassy hops and malt. The flavor is malty with a strong woody hop component. Some herbs in there too. Not in love but not hating it either.




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