Clipper City Heavy Seas Holy Sheet

Brewed by Clipper City Brewing Co.
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Whoa funky beer, but good! Smells of fruit and tastes of malt and fruit. Not one of my favorite Heavy Seas, but still good!

Bottle. Pours dark red with an off white head. Aroma of ripe fruit. notes of plum, raisin, berry, and caramel. Light note of alcohol. Medium/full body. Flavor starts very subdued, but quickly reveals a note of lightly sweet but mostly tart fruit, and becomes almost bitter at the end from the hops. Notes of fruit and yeast with a light note of alcohol. Quite enjoyable and easy to drink.

Pours amber with small tan head. Aroma is fruit and clove. Flavor is terrible. Tastes like vinegar almost. Maybe I had a bad bottle or something but it was bad enough to make me not want to try it again.

Bottle poured into a Chalice glass produced good fingers worth of tan head on top of a ruby red body. The head turns to a thin lace Aromas of malts, dark fruits and some alcohol fill your nose The alcohol flavor is a bit strong almost masks the fruitiness of this one Medium mouthfeel great sipper, light carbonation smooth is a word that comes to mind Not a bad Belgian strong it’s a bit warm they could have turned down the alcohol some

Deep and dark in color...some sweet flavors but a bit more watery than I like. I still like having a dark abbey ale as opposed to the lighter varieties. Alcohol well-hidden.

It pours a medium brown. The head is a creamy white. It smells like an apple pie. There is barely any carbonation, and the liquid is of a medium consistency. I taste dark fruits and malts at the beginning of the sip and then there is a warm, alcohol finish. This particular beer is good for a nice chilly day. It would go nicely with a vegetable soup. The taste is not distinctive or impressive enough to warrant a rave review, but I’d definitely drink it again.

Filtered cedar orange colored body, which is really a crying shame to have a Belgian style like this filtered. Nose is one part sweet apple and honey malt and one part brown sugar, black pepper and toasted bread yeast. Rich, oily, moderately thick, sweet up front, more grainy over the middle, taste of baked apples, sour grains, a bit of moldy honey, and only a very light bit of some sort of trappist-style yeast. Easy to drink, but nothing to get excited about.

Nice Trappist take off. Very little foam, bright copper color. A little out of balance, too sweet and then too boozy, than the real Belgians. Nice beer still.