Clipper City Heavy Seas Holy Sheet

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

I love the color, but the aroma is nothing special. Some fruity ester qualities, and you can smell the alcohol. Taste is also neither good nor bad. For an Abbey Ale it just isnt complex enough for me. The mouthfeel seems to stack up though. I get the nice alcohol warmth, and it coats the tongue in a pleasing way. I probably won’t buy it again, but I am glad I had it. I’ll see how it ages, I suppose.

Pint draft at Hard Times. Little to no aroma. Some malt and sweetness detected. Nice deep brown, mahogany color. Thin tasting with little that I would describe as a dubbel. Was hoping for more. Will stick with the Loose Cannon.

12oz bottle. Burgundy cognac color. Deep rich malt profile with a little tang of Belgian yeast. Smooth and creamy. Mellow fruity tones. Heavy in alcohol and reminiscent of an old school Belgian Abbey ale. Sweet finish, really gets nicer as it breathes.

12 oz bottle - Pours crystal clear dark brown color with ruby highlights, tiny almost non-existant off white head. Aroma with a fair amount of chewy kilned malts, medium intensity toasted caramel, touch of toasted oak and cherry, and just the faintest whiff of styrofoam off note, with a touch of background diacetyl. Flavor is full of chewy malts and loads of caramel, bit of vanilla and oak, hint of cherry and figs. Fairly sweet overall, palate is a bit thick for the style. Overall a pretty decent dubbel. A few off fermentation notes in the aroma that drags the score down a bit. Seems like they needed a little better temperature control during primary. It needs to be a little drier to be approiate for the style. It is also way undercarbonated for the style. I think the beer would seem a bit drier and the palate would be a bit lighter if it was carbonated higher.

Pours light amber into a Trappist glass. Non-descript fruit and alcohol aromas. Cloying sweetness from front to back.

12 ounce bottle in Westmalle glass. Reddish amber with thin ring head. Banana brown sugar and wood varnish aroma. Brown sugar caramel cherries and alcohol flavor with very mild tabacco bitterness and overtly "Belgian-Style" yeast. Medium body and carbo. Not altogether pleasing.

Dark amber in color. Aroma has dark fruit, sweetness, and typical belgian spices. The flavor is yeast, dark fruit, perhaps a bit of chocolate detected. The alcohol warmth is apparent. Slightly sweet aftertaste. Some hop bitterness in the finish.

Pours a cloudy reddish brown. Aroma of five spice, vanilla, caramel, malts and yeast. Flavour is somewhat full, malted yeast with some hopped wet forrest. A drinkable abbey ale, cold is best.