Southern Tier Cuvée Series 1

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

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.

Bottle, bought @ Ølbutikken, Cph.
Pours pale orange golden with a small, film head. Aroma has cellar, grapefruit, resiny hops, rye, sticky sweetness, light wheat. Medium carbonation, fine lightish mouthfeel for the ABV. Flavour is very sweet, toffee, vinious, oak, light rye. Okay, but far too sweet.

Pours an almost orange amber color with no head. Vanilla and honey aroma with a flavor of vanilla, honey, spice, and some alcohol. A bit metallic. One of their more expensive. A bit disappointing,

A Mes rate: bottle at the ever brilliant Chris O’s Pre GBBF Extravaganza.
Rich amber with a thin but lasting off white head. A good looking brew. Wasn’t expecting to think much of this in all honesty but I thought it worked pretty well. Sweet malt, big bitter hops and excellent barrel notes that are done just right. Nothing too complex just a nice barrel infused American strong ale.

Slightly hazy pale amber with a small white head. American citrus hop aroma with some tannin. Sweet caramel flavour with wood and American hops.

Bottle from the skinnyguy. A little subdued for an oak aged anything. Would be pretty rocking with some fresh powerful hops. A bit of a vanilla aroma with a hint of faint grassy hops. Texture is distinctly syrup and the flavor has a sweetness that lasts a while. Get a burst of fruit on the back of the palate and later in the sip. The finish is a touch of alcohol. Again everything is just a tad too toned down to be incredibly memorable and the oak aging is almost non existent in its presence.

Bottled. Aroma has american hops, maltiness (raisin and caramel), some oak and fruitiness. Hazy, amber coloured with a lasting head. The taste was bitter, slightly fruity/caramel sweet with american bit piney hops present. Some oak. Tasted good but it could use some fine tuning.