Clipper City Heavy Seas Red Sky At Night

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

12oz - Aroma is yeasty orange with a touch of spice. Pours cloudy gold with a small head and great lacing. Flavor is nice and bready with orange peel and spice. Palate is creamy and tart. Pretty good stuff that hides the alcohol well.

Small white heand on clear amber body. Touch of spicey sourness inthe aroms. A bit of sour flavor with some bread and raw suger in the flavor. Very light mouthfeel. very light subtle flavor. very poor intrepritation of the style

bottle: pours a sparkling apple juice colour with nothing more than a thin white line for a head. aroma is slightly funky with plenty of wheat malt that is sweet. flavour is wheat mostly with some vegetable like taste and just a hint of spice and bread in the finish. overall an ok beer seems very wheaty to me though with out anything else really jumping out.

Bottle. Pours hazy corn gold, white head. Aroma is malt & metal. Flavor is the same, slight wheat, spices, & a bit of sauerkraut.

9/3/07: Bottle.
Bright yellow-orange body with a minimal white head. Nose of spice (lemon pepper, clove) orange zest, and yeast. Flavors of yeast, bread, allspice and wheat. Zesty, zippy wheat bite finish.

THOUGHTS: After trying Wyerbacher Muse, I was a little scared to try another saison, but after seeing that others who like saisons didn’t like Muse, I thought I’d give another saison a try. Not bad. If the ABV were a little lower it would be a great summer beer. I was sweating after drinking one. TECHNICAL: Bottle Poured a clear ( I was expecting hazy) light orange (second glass was a little hazy, the only thing I can think of was the first bottle was a little colder), with a small, white head that mostly diminished. The aroma was light grassy hops, moderate to heavy doughy and earthy yeast, alcohol, a little spice and a sour smell too. It smelled a little like a spicier wit. The initial flavor was lightly sweet and acidic, while the finish was moderately sweet, acidic and sour with a short to average duration. It was candy sugar weet and citrus sour with some spiceyness too. The flavor kink of dropped off a little toward the finish. The medium body was somewhat syrupy with fizzy carbonation and a lightly alcoholic finish, but not really much of a finish at all.

i think that this beer is a bit under rated. I enjoyed it. Pours out a nice light orange color with a slight bit of lacing. aroma was spicy and very fruity. Flavor was very much the same but reminded me for a belgian ale. I really liked this beer.

Date: 12/03/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Strong Ale fest, 2005

hazy yellow, thin white head, nice sweet spicy malt aroma, light and fruity flavor, very low bitterness, nice spicyness,
-------- /> Date: 04/13/2006
Source: ww

sweet banana and clove
-------- /> Date: 07/14/2006
Mode: draft
Source: tasting

still banana and clove, is it power of suggestion or is this really a hefesaison, picking up some orange and citrus

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 9/10
Score: **4