Clipper City Heavy Seas Red Sky At Night

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

Nice Belgian yeasty nose coupled with candi sugar, frut, and spice. The palate is dry for an 8.25% beer. Long fruity finish. This is a big "summer brew". This beer is clipper cities best effort to date. More of a Triple than a Saison.

On tap the Oakroom, Athens, OH. Amber gold, with a thin head that laces down the glass. Medium body, with a spicy, almost astringent mouth feel. Not trace of the alcohol in the aroma or flavor.

Pours a fading off-white head with a hazy, straw color body. Grass, yeast, and zest on the nose. Flavor is cotton candy with notes of grass and zest. Oily, mellow, refined. Dry finish.

Bottle poured into a tulip glass. A slightly cloudy gold color with an inch of off-white head that quickly subsides to a ring of foam. Smells of lemon and orange peels, banana, and yeast. The flavor falls a little flat with banana and lemon being the main flavors. It finishes with a slight bitterness and saltiness. It is drinkable but I’m not going to go hunting for more of it.

Poured a golden yellow, with decent carbonation and the signature Saison snow white head. Aroma was hoppy spice, and the taste was more of the same. This had all the characteristics of a Saison, but all just muted. Unlike others I’ve had where the nose and taste jump out at you, I had to work much harder to detect the Saison style here. Not a bad drinkimng beer, just not nearly as good as many other Saisons.

Light tasting, fruit-harvesty. Not my favorite, but a nice sweetish palate attempt. On tap, Boulevard Woodgrill, Arlington, VA.

A tad bit watery but not too bad. Nice flavor of banana clove etc. Worth a shot.

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.