Clipper City Heavy Seas Hang Ten

Pours a dark cloudy chest brown color with a layer of sluge on top. No head or lacing to speak of. Not very appealing. Spicy aroma with lots of clove and peppery zest notes. Yeasty bready presence with slight chocolate and ripe banana as well as some subtle dark fruit. Yeasty bready medium body with some delicate subtle hops up front with a spicy syrupy center with a spicy dry finish with strong alcohol warmth. Spicy cloves dominate the flavor and are not integrated very well. Hints of sweet chocolate, ripe banana, dark fruit notes and a very strong alcohol presence. The ABV is not very well masked at all. This is kind of a hot mess with some decent flavors that are overpowered by the booziness and agressive clove presence.

12 oz bottle. Cloudy brown with a small head that dissipates to an off white ring. Aroma is wheat, banana, bread and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with a bit of sourness and bitterness, there is also a light alcohol taste. Medium to full body with mild carbonation and a syrupy mouth feel. Not a bad beer, just a bit sweet for my liking.

12oz bottle. Big, dark and sweet. A bit much for my taste though I’m sure there will be those who love this one. I found the taste to be somewhat like over ripe banana with a bit too much alcohol presence to it.

Brown pour with a light topper. Bright floral & malt aroma. This tastes like a first rate bock, as good as anything that might have been shipped over from the motherland of bocks. Flavor of wheat malt and esters, with some honey, dried fruits, and a little cocoa powder. Full flavored, and with a bit of tang in with the sweetness. How nice to come across a fine weizen doppelbock that was brewed in Maryland. I tried it also from a cask (no carbonation) and that was not nearly as good as from the bottle. I salute Clipper City for another fine voyage!

Cask. Bad beer. Bready malt with an odd aroma. Not pleasant to drink, so thank goodness it wasn’t mine.

clear amber color, respectable tan head, some lace. nose of banana and clove. a sweet banana flavor with a touch of spiciness. medium bodied, sweet finish. i did not lkike this one. single bottle from binny’s in orland park.

This was a pleasant surprise, when I saw that it was an unfiltered wheat beer, I was expecting a pale, slightly biscuity light tasting beer. Instead, this was a dark reddish brown, full bodied bee, with the nose and taste of malty dark fruits (raisins, dates, grapes), mixed with pleasant clove and other spices, with a tad of bananas, apples and other lighter fruit, atop the biscuit. Every sip or sniff brought out something different. Not to mention the 10% abv that never made itself known outight, but could be felt below the surface. I will definitely have more of this.

Pours from the 12 oz. bottle a rust colored brown with a thick two finger off white head that quickly fades int a medium collar. Carbonation is light and the body is hazy & opaque. Aroma is sweet and fruity...hints of banana and apricot are detected. 1st sip brings hints of spice, fruit, and honey. The finish has a peppery spice to it. There is almost NO hint of the 10% abv, so be careful with these, they go down much too smoothly to be this potent! Mouthfeel is a little on the light side, but hardly watery. All in all, good stuff! I don’t come across many weizenbocks (Victory’s Moonglow is the only other one i’ve sampled), but if this is what the style is all about, I definetly want more!