Clipper City Heavy Seas Holy Sheet

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

12 oz bottle. Pour to a beautiful, bright, deep ruby color, with a thick, creamy, off white head, and a moderate carbonation. The nose on this beer is excellent, with lots of good sweet malty aroma, paired with plummy esters, and some spicy/earthy yeast. The palate is slighly slick on the tongue, with really good flavors of caramel, sweet malt, candi sugar, esters of plum and apple, and some funky/spicy yeast flavor. This beer finishes with good malt and fruity flavor up front, then ends with a funky/earth yeast flavor that lingers. Very well done domestic example of an abbey double. Nice beer to sip and relax with, and a good beer to match with hearty fare, or deserts. I really enjoyed this one. Another good effort from Clipper City.

Pours a three finger cream head that fades slowly, leaving some lace. Clear amber color. Medium carbonation and medium bodied. Raisin nose. Flavor is sweet, raisiny, not cloying good balance, higher ABV is hidden. $2.25 for a 12oz bottle from Colonial Spirits Acton, Ma.

Aroma of raisin, malt, kind of wine-like. Dark, transparent, with no head. Strong mouth feel with an understated hop bitterness. Caramel, apple, some chocolate hints are there. Very complex, interesting beer.

Bottle - from sampler pack. Dark copper color - somewhat cloudy. Strong malty aroma. Very good - quite strong - malty taste - very warming.

I’m really not sure why the lack of love for this one. I found it to be well done and very authentic Belgian in nature, especially for a regional brewery on the East Coast... Appears a semi-transparent mahogany hue of garnett amber with a small, light tan head that slowly fades into a spiraled cap and mild collar. Scattered streaks of lacing are left around the glass. Smell is of doughy banana nut bread with caramel, melanoiden malt, raisins, brown sugar...reminds me a bit of Chimay Red. Taste is of the mentioned aromas with complex, yeasty dough, rich caramalized malt(Special B?), and a touch of cocoa. The yeast is the real "bread winner" of this beer making it complex and delicious. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, sweet up front, bready, with raisin sweetness sliding along the tongue and into a lip smacking finish. Well done brew. I hope they decide to keep it in the lineup for a long time b/c I would put it up there with both Chimay Red, as well as New Belgian Abbey.

Bottled. A deep amber beer with a fast disappearing brown head. The aroma is sweet malty wtih notes of caramel and pumpernickle bread as well as light notes of cinnamon. The flavor is sweet mlaty with notes of pumpernickle bread and caramel as well as a light touch of alcohol. The body is powerful. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

A dark orange brown ale with a thin off white head. A rather interesting aroma of sugar beet, brown sugar and rosewater. In mouth, a nice caramelly and molassey malt, dark figs, warmming alcohol. Nice and classy. Tap at BCTC 2009

Clear, crimson appearance with a small, off white head and little lacing. Sweet malt aroma developed some complexity with caramel, molassas, red fruit and licorice shining through. Soft, medium-bodied, moderately carbonated mouthfeel. Sweet, fruity taste with yeasty, cookie dough flavors. Lush, long lasting, high octane finish. Alcohol content seemed high for the style; maybe the reason for the "uber" tag.