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Clipper City Heavy Seas Red Sky At Night

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bottled
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4273.24/5.03.23/5.0Summer8%30.6Tulip
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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 WeeHeavySD (3041), San Diego (Hillcrest), California, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
May 15, 2009  
12oz. Pours orange with a thin tan head. Nose is sweet and peppery. Taste is sweet, peppery and all in all not a terrible saison styled brew. Not really feeling it right now, but its not horrid.


 AR (437), Georgia, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/514/20
Jul 18, 2008  
This is a hearty, full-bodied beer that is a good go-to beer. A spicy yeast flavor, it is not overbearing, but strong to the palate.


 Moggman (187), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/512/20
Jan 11, 2009  
Bottle. Pours copper with white head. Aroma is citrus hops with sweet malty undertones. Flavor is sweet with good hop bitterness and a crisp clean finish.


 gotohelunc (476), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/513/20
Aug 2, 2008  
Bottle. Slightly hazy light orange color, minimal head, big fizzy bubbles. Banana, cloves, and farm aromas and flavors with a bit of a pepper, as would be expected from a saison. This isn’t as flavorful or complex as a saison should be, but as an easy drinking summer beer, it works quite well.


Eckato (90), St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/104/513/20
Jul 3, 2007  
Poured out of a bottle with a nice head... Nice golden yellow amber coloring...the carbonation is decent. The aroma is a nice sweet and sour... imagine this...the taste is sour and sweet also...I like the mouth feel, it clings a bit..and the flavor that lingers is nice. Good beer this....


 smith4498 (921), Miami, Florida, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/512/20
Dec 7, 2009  
Bottle from a trade with StFun. Pours hazy dark golden color with white head. Aromas of bread dough and spices. Doughy flavor with mild spices and some fruitiness. Kind of a bland saison to me. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Thanks Josh.


 darkguardian (506), Florida, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Jul 8, 2009  
Wierd beer. I like saisons but this one had a odd vegetal nose with alot of strange sugar notes. Some light spice and coriander. Flavor was way way to sweet for a saison. Some light spiciness but the sugary caramel malt dominates. To much residual sugar yet again. Alcohol is well hidden and its not terrible but its not good either.


 durhambeer (1229), Durham, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Jun 26, 2008  
Bottle. Golden yellow with medium white head. More transparent than expected. Very fruity and spicy nose: sour grapes, green apple, coriander, possibly cinnamon and clove. Nothing subtle about this beer. Similar palate, but very sweet. This really tasted like a tripel to me, and not a very subtle one, though the alcohol was well hidden. Might have ranked it higher if I was expecting a tripel, but as it was, I felt disappointed that this wasn’t very saison-like.



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