Southampton Grand Cru

Brewed by Southampton Publick House
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Southampton, New York USA

Pours bubbly red-copper with large, foamy white head. Nose includes oranges, sweet apples a little caramel/alcohol. Flavor is quite sweet with caramel, apples, bread, and peppery spices. Sticky but lively, this one is a little sweet for me, though it’s still good.

Bottle shared by alraomon. Thanks Sean! Medium amber color with a quickly dissolving medium head. Aroma of spices and sour cherry. Taste is caramel, banana, spice, grass and citrus. Sticky mouthfeel. Alchohol is hidden well.

The finale of the BIF Race 2008 package from Eyedrinkale, Southampton Grand Cru arrived in a 750 ml. corked and caged bomber. When poured in a flute, the head occupied more than half the glass. The body of the beer was clear and golden to orange in color. The aroma of the beer was like a spice cake, with oranges, clove, rum raisins, and sherry smells. The taste was cake like as well because of the sweet bready and airy malt backbone with all of the flavors I was smelling embedded within. Since a Grand Cru is generally served at weddings, the cake character was apropos. The alcohol provided a bitter, ethereal, drying counterpoint to this flavor. Richly textured in the mouth with a satiny feel. Unlike the PC game Portal, this cake is not a lie.

750ml from MaxxDaddy - thanks, Max! One of my favorite offerings from SH - a big robust body with a strong complex nose. Warming and spicy without being boozy, and lively from hops. Very nearly on a par with some of Belgium’s best.

light hazy orange. smells spicy fruity and light. flavor is so big and sweet and full. i love it. a favorite.

(Bottle at Pikkulintu on 2008-06-04) Amber colour. Hazy. Small white head. Yeast in fruity and sweet nose. Sugary full palate. Syrup and raisin in taste. Some bitterness in aftertaste. Very sweet, even too sweet for my taste.

750ml Bottle: Very sweet aroma. Smells vinous, with notes of candi sugar, honey, apricot, and some spices. Poured amber in color with a small, off-white head. Clear. Sparkling. Full of large particles. Flavor is very sweet. Tastes of honey, sugar, berries, and alcohol. Medium body. Average texture. Average to lively carbonation. Sweet finish. Way too sweet. Like drinking Manichevitz.

750 via shadey... pours a hard to describe coppery apricot color. it’s cloudy with yeasties floating in it and topped by an airy whitish head. champagne-like yeasty aroma combines with spices, earth and sparkling apple cider sweetness. a bit sweet on the palate. the anise is noticeable and gives it an apple cider-like flavor. also, orange, flowers, spice and spicy alcohol and oxidized red apples noted. dry yeasty aftertaste with more apples. medium body seems to get thicker as the yeast combines with it. airy light mouth feel due to huge bubbles.