Clipper City Heavy Seas Loose Cannon Hop3

Brewed by Clipper City Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Baltimore, Maryland USA

[12oz Bottle - Thanks The Beer God] Dark golden color with a nice white head. This had tons of hop aroma with a great flavor. This was a great IPA. The hops used where to PNW standard and great. A great beer to drink. AWESOME.

Bottle in VA. Golden amber with a fizzy white head. Sweet citrus and pine aroma and taste with a slightly soapy bitterness and apricot notes.

Rated 7/21/07. Pours a cloudy golden color with a small white head. Nice carbonation. Beautiful rings of lacing left behind after every sip. Whoa.....the aroma is very hoppy. I picked up floral, grassy, herbal, piney hops on the nose. The malt background is apparent on a deep inhale, but you have to cut through some serious hops to find it. The flavor is very nice. Again, piney, citrusy, and herbal hops dominate, but there is a decent enough level of caramel malt to mellow it out and make it palatable. Similar to Boulder’s Hazed and Infused in terms of hop intensity, but this one has a much better malt-hop balance. Heavy beer, but very drinkable if you’re into big hops, which I am. Nice, intense IPA.

12oz bottle, thanks to kmweaver (i think?) for this extra. pours cloudy orange with little white head. nose is very bright citrus and spicey hops with grass undertones. taste of tang, sorta orange fruit punch, some musty notes, and subtle spicy hops. what’s with the hop cubed nonsense on the bottle? this isn’t that hoppy. i am a fan of spicy hops, but it’s mainly the tang or sunny d flavor i don’t care for and i prefer hop wallop as an east coast ipa like this beer clearly is. in the end this is a drinkable ipa that most will be pleased with (most but not me).

Pours a light amber-orange; minimal white head. Earthy aroma; grapefruit, hops, citrus, pine. Flavor was much of the same but sweet. Caramel malt, balances out the hop flavors. Somewhat slick on the palate. Good finish. Found it very good.

Clear golden light amber (copper) color. Generous carbonation with a nice foamy yellow head that slowy bubbles away and leaves a nice veil/crown. Aroma is sweet grapefruit/orange, crisp, clean hops with some maltiness in the background. Flavor is just like the aroma, only a bit sweeter. Great mouthfeel - just syrupy enought without being too much. Flavor is also extremely well balanced between the malt and hops. Alcohol is there, but quite hidden. To top it off, this one has a yummy slightly dry and bitter finish. Just when you think it has completely slipped away, a bit of sweetness comes back inviting you to take another drink. It might not be a full double IPA, but it is a fine IPA either way. Bottle after bottle, it’s just not possible to stop drinking a beer this good for the low, low price! 12 oz bottle (best before Jan 07), $1.50 from Party Town.

Clear golden color, nice softly creamy layer of foam above. Lovely hop aroma, fresh and vibrant, floral and fruity, hints of honey, but piney, moreover, ...dazzling. Bitter, but pleasing and smooth. Taste: ahhh! a hop ballet on the tongue, teasing and tantalizing, delivering deliciousness with every sip. Apples and pears meet the citric suspects, and the malt is sweet and sturdy, well matching the strong hop quotient. Hops last long on the palate, a fine, dragging finish that is well-loved. The more I near completion of this bottle, the more I wish I had another. This is an IPA I’d like to return to again, very easy drinking, very smooth, very tasty. Very nice, Clipper City, keep up the good work!

Medium amber orange, decent head fades slowly. Aroma a mix of floral and citric hops, pleasant but restrained. Flavor, once warm, was a balanced mix of caramel and biscuit malts with an overlay of grapefruit, pine, nectarine, and floral accented hops. Well done. Should note that while cooler, the flavors in this beer were quite closed, and the carbonation biting. Dramatically better as it neared room temperature.