Southern Tier Cuvée Series 1

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Lakewood, New York USA

Pours reddish brown. Light off white head. Toffee, butter, caramel aromas. Tastes like a light malty barley wine. Honey, maple syrup sweetness. Delicious. Definitely coconut as well. Like a sweet coconut cake. Tasty.

Sampled at the ’Butter’s Last Supper’ tasting. Side by side with the number 2. Pours a lighter copper amber than the 2. both with minimal rings of offwhite head. Nose is lighter, with apple butter, biscuit, and carmel, and just a twinge of alcohol. Flavor is toffee, butterscotch, and sweet honey. Great job of hiding the abv. Beautiful marketing presentation too. Too bad it’s so expensive.

Golden brown body beneath a white head that quickly dissipates to a thin ring of foam. Rich malts, pear, raisins, and honey in the aroma accompanied by some underlying oak. Sweet flavors of caramel and vanilla along with some candied fruits and a subtle peppery spice. Dry oak tannins come through in the finish. I like this one a bit more than most other raters I guess.

golden pour with very little white head, dissolves quickly to nothing. Very sweet taste, mostly of brown sugar, sweet dried fruits and vanilla. bitter swallow after the initial taste, but easy to get used to.

Pours with an amber-orange body topped by a thin to medium thick head with some lacing. It’s sweet and full of candy sugar notes with a slight hint of vanilla. Medium to full bodied and well carbonated.

Dark gold color, no head or lacing. Really sweet brown sugar aroma, a bit of vanilla oak, hint of strawberry. Sweet but not as strongly as the aroma, a bit of a bitter bite, brown sugar, slightly boozy, and some oaky vanilla.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a medium sized head of foamy fine to medium sized off-white colored bubbles that were long lasting and left behind a transparent strongly carbonated light brown colored body and a thick foamy lacing. The mild aroma was woody. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish with a mellow hoppy aftertaste. The flavor contained interesting notes of malt hops and caramel.

Bottle from Zinister at the August Hosuton Tasting. Thanks, Mike!
Pours a thin, almost lifeless amber with a malty bread, coppery yeast, and raisin bran nose. Flavor is sweet malt and bready raisin. Thick mouthfeel. Fantastic.