Southern Tier Cuvée Series 1

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

Bottle. Appearance: Pours lightly hazy orange with an amber tint. Thin bubbly head. Aroma: Sweet caramel and vanilla. Flavor: More of the same sweet flavors with some oak, hop, and booze notes. Palate: Medium full body with a slightly dry finish. Very drinkable.

Sampled at the Nashville BA Tasting. Pours amber orange with a wisp of a head, and fine effervescent carbonation. Aroma of life savers, vanilla, and caramel. Flavor of wort and butterscotch countered by a moderate bitterness. Finish is semi dry and oaky with some lingering white pepper. Not bad, but not worth the price.

The Dan Journal #250. Tasted 11/19/08. 22oz bomber. First pour is relatively clear with an amber hue. Trace head. Sweet aromas with hints of caramel. On the fuller side of medium bodied. Moderate alcohol note. Slight vanilla oaky note. Touch of homey. Slight tingling effervescence. Good not great. Maybe time in the bottle will help.

22oz bomber served in a snifter. Clear amber pour with a thick head of bubbly beige foam. Decent retention and some slick lacing. The aroma contained super sweet caramel, vanilla, and some fruity yeast esters. The flavor was sweet and boozy. A ton of caramel and vanilla with some fairly hot alcohol. Full-bodied and tongue coating. Mild carbonation. Not sure what they were going for here, but what they got was a big, sugary, boring beer. "Cuvée" led me to believe this was Belgian-inspired. Nope. Drinkable, but really lacking in depth and complexity.

orange peach color with a 1/2 inch off white head. Spicy hops, orange, malt and oak aromas. A little thick on the palate--alcohol is definitely evident. Soft, creamy flavor, a little bit of smoked whiskey, a bit of malt, biscuity hops, finishes with a bit of a bitter citrus that quickly moves to floral. Something about this one is just indescribable.

Pours coppery orange from bottle, large white head that quickly disappears. Aroma is interesting - sweetness and fruit with a hint of peat, like a good scotch whiskey. Aroma and flavor are remniscent of a Unibroue beer; fairly sweet, good malt and caramel characters with fruit and spice and a hint of nuts on the finish. Highly recommended.

Bottle 22fl.oz. @ home.
Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, sweet roasted kokus, moderate to light heavy hoppy, orange, spicy, sweet honey notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft - flat. [20090223]

Oak aged. Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured an orange-amber color with a large fluffy, soapy orange-cream head. The aroma was faint sweet caramel and almond. The flavor was sweet bourbon, vanilla, oak, nut, light fruits, almond nougat, apple and cinnamon. The finish was medium length. The mouthfeel was fairly thick. Excellent.