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Clipper City Heavy Seas Red Sky At Night

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
4253.24/5.03.23/5.0Summer8%30.1Tulip
Commercial Description:
Pils, Carapils, and wheat malts, Belgian candi sugar
Magnum and Styrian Goldings Hops
This beer is brewed in the Belgian Saison style (country farm house ale). A potent yet delicate ale, brewed with a unique Belgian yeast which develops a spicy, fruity flavor. Enormously complex. Available from May to around August.
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 502Flavors (617), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/515/20
Jun 24, 2009  
Bottle. Golden straw color with a bit of haze and a nice white head. Moderately spicy aroma with a good yeasty quality. Flavor is sweeter than most saisons but still has a nice spicyness to balance it all out. Not overcarboanted like most saisons. Medium to light body, smooth and refreshing. Overall: very refreshing summer brew.


 Foxbush (456), Richmond, Virginia, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Jun 21, 2009  
I have just learned the Belgian beer are not my style. The fruity flavor is just not my first choice in beers. The beer is too sweet and no hops. The spicy beer is not of my liking.


 WakeandBake (427), Greenville, Michigan, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Jun 16, 2009  
Bottle. A light clear orange yellow pour with a big fluffy white head, lively carbonation. Aroma is lightly sweet and spicy,a bit of the funk,hints of apple. Flavor is very good, nice malty sweetness,honey,apple,pepper,clove,nice yeastyness,medium body,sharp bubbly mouthfeel,long finish with a spicy aftertaste,very sessionable.


 AmEricanbrew (1808), Doing Rogue, Louisiana, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Jun 15, 2009  
12 oz bottle. Clear light amber with a fleeting head. Spice and berryfruit aromas with strong clove. Smooth medium body. Big yeasty, sweet clove flavors with lightly tart pale wheat. Thanks to notalush for this bottle.


 wxman (585), O’Fallon, Illinois, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
May 29, 2009  
Pours a pale golden with a minimal but lasting white head. Aroma is citrus, yeast and spice. Smooth clean and crisp for a saison. Has all the clove, banana and citrus notes that you’d expect, but not as sweet as some. A dryer, fresher example of the style, yet flavorful and well balanced.


 blklab2007 (956), Connecticut, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
May 28, 2009  
bottle poured a yellow golden in color with a thick foamy white head that retained well. aroma has sweet grains, wheat, spiced yeast, apples, and some dark fruit. takes a run at the sweet Belgian yeast thing, but not quite there. mouth feel is light and there is ample carbonation. sweetness picks up big time in the flavor, spiced yeast, wheat, spent grain, and again the apples. this one is really sweet and lacks any dryness to control it.


 BREWMUSKCLES (1070), New Jersey, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
May 26, 2009  
bit of Belgian spice on the nose and also vegetable wheat. taste is nice enough with typical spice and a good yeasty body that fortifies the sweet and somewhat one dimensional taste that comes off a bit watery. sneaky alcohol that i like it is a bit bright, a bit refined and has a mellow actually meekish finish.


 kassner (441), Wexford, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
May 25, 2009  
Bottle. This beer is rather sweet for the style, not as spicy as some, a nice beer that does not give full hint of its alcohol content. Slightly off colored gold, Not much head or lacing



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