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Clipper City Heavy Seas Below Decks

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70
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common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
3523.25/5.03.24/5.0Special11%16.7Snifter
Commercial Description:
Created to celebrate Clipper City’s 10th Anniversary – extremely limited and vintage dated – this extravagantly malty barley wine will show well upon release but continue to evolve for years.
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 ChristianScheffel (4554), Odense, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Apr 1, 2008  
Chestnut colour with a lasting off-white head. Sweet and intense aroma, of dried fruits and malt. Sweet and malty flavour somewhat vineous. Pleasant but simple barley wine.


 Juancho (225), Clearwater Beach, Georgia, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/56/104/513/20
Mar 31, 2008  
Draught @ Summit’s Pours copper/amber with nice orange highlights, very good looking with a nice lacy white head. Flavor is predominantly sweet, the hops in the brew are very shy, they barely show up....


 yespr (12190), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Mar 30, 2008  
12 fl oz bottle, 10%@fonefan/Brugmansia’s Cnudde tasting. Pours clear and golden orange with a lacing white head. Woody hops aroma. Flavour is sweet malty with a lingering woody note. Ends with a lingering hops and fruity flavour. Light liqourice hops edge.


buzzbo (2), USA
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3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Mar 28, 2008  
Average BW with alcohol dominating nose and pallet. Could be hoppier particularly in finish, which is why I would probably not age (regardless of 10% ABV) for fear of turning phenolic with such heavy dark fruit characteristics already bordering on balsamic. I didn’t hate it but I wouldn’t go out to seek it either.


 tupalev (2617), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Mar 25, 2008  
Bottle from their mix pack. Rusty orange, small white head. Decent aroma, a lot of spicy hops. Taste follows, more spicy hops,a lot of alcohol and a lot of malt sweetness. A straightforward barleywine - not terribly complex, but a good sipper.


 surffisher (196), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/105/516/20
Mar 24, 2008  
2006, 12 oz. bottle. Pours reddish amber with a suspension of fine floaters and a modest yellow head. Leaves sticky lacing. Malt-dominated aroma includes candied fruits, sweet bread and booze. Flavor is sweet and fruity upfront, but with balanced bitterness in a long finish. Pretty nice and unique flavor although it does have a bit of that cough syrup thing going. Medium-full bodied, moderate carbonation. Smooth with nice warmth in the finish. Very worthy barleywine here. Seems very much underrated (or else very inconsistent).


 gpekar (227), Maryland, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Mar 23, 2008  
Poured a deep copper/orange color. There was a thin head that became just a wisp of a head. The aroma was slightly hoppy with a bit of sweetness. A subtle scent of grassy malts was there too. There was a creamyness to the beer with a bit of a honey sweetness. The alcohol was there but hidden pretty well at 11%. There was a bit of an alcohol warmth on the finish.


 corby112 (741), philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/517/20
Mar 17, 2008  
Pours a dark amber color with foamy white head. Very hoppy aroma with hints of dark fruit and sweet alochol. Very hoppy, balancing out the dark fruit and alcohiol sweetness quite nicely. Sweet with nice alcohol warmth in the finish.



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