Clipper City Heavy Seas Red Sky At Night

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

Pours an ultra refined pale gold...looks like a macro almost...dense one finger white head. Aroma is big candi sugar and a bit of yeast...roasted peppercorns. Flavor is also tons of candi sugar...very sweet...quite a bit of spice and grass taste...some malt too. Hardly any hops..and I don’t get any fruitiness from this? Mouthfeel is dense...kind of harsh actually. This is not a very good example of a saison...at least from what I have experienced. Still a pretty tasty brew.

Best before August 2006. Clear, golden body with a half-inch of moderately sized bubbles. Fruity, slightly wheaty aroma of bananas, pineapples, wheat bread, light hops, light sugar and a touch of coriander. The body is much fuller than I would have guessed from the appearance. The carbonation was soft and rather supple on the tongue. The flavor is enjoyable and rather complex. The fruity esters and candi sugar lead to a higher sweetness than expected. The spiciness and light malt are nice together. The hoppiness could be a little more definited and a little more complex and it would make this much more enjoyable for my tastes. Good, but a little sweet.

poured a budweiser kind of pale but thank goodness, it didn’t taste like it. i’m not usually a fan of saisons but this wasn’t bad. spicy , nutmeg nose. poured a nice big frothy head. does have kind of a funk aftertaste but i have had it for awhile so i won’t take off points for that. and it does get extra points for the name. gotta love a nice reference to "the fixx" who were great in concert, btw

12oz pours a golden color with a half inch of white head. Nice small bubbles rise slowly up the glass like cheap plastic cork champagne. Nice subtle bread, wheat, spice, and a touch of clove. The flavor is nice and dry with toned down yeast and very mild spice. This beer does not try to hard and is very refreshing. It stays away from the dominate banana flavor that a lot of American Saisons have.

Pours nice golden color with red hue. Not much head and it quickly leaves. Very little carbonation. Smell is spicy, some sweetness, but overall dry. Very transparent, no bottle conditioning with this saison. Palate is very thin compared to most saisons, pleasant though. Taste has some spice - coriander? cinnamon? Not much of the taste that comes with most Belgiums (or most US interprentations) - not very earthy in the malts or yeast. It is enjoyable for what it is, but not very true to the style. This is definitely recommend, just go into it with an open mind.

RFD tasting with MJ: A clody yellow beer. Pleasant taste with a nice lemonpell and bubble gum flavor

12oz. bottle. Cloudy yellow pour with bright white head. Boatloads of spice and bread on the nose with corriander to the extreme. This is a fine beer and as always with this brewery very impressive for the $$$. One of the better domestic versions of saison but lacks the dry hop finish I love in the Belgians as well as the earth toned malts. Still a nice effort and a near perfect summer drink.

Sweet malt scents of cotton candy pear, and bubblegum. Not much head, golden unfiltered look. Moderate head. Lightly carbonated and medium body. Average Belgian style with an extremely sweet finish that covers the alcohol nicely. Still not one of my favorite styles but a decent attempt.