Southern Tier Cuvée Series 2

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

Thanks Dave. The beer pours to a vibrant mahogany body with glowing yellow highlights. The aroma is light sweet barley and subtle hops and oak. Way more blended than Cuvée Series 1. The flavor is a sweet barley and light oak with sweet brandy/bourbon. The palate is sweet and medium-full bodied. Almost creamy.

Pours dark amber with a small beige head. Aroma is sweet fruit, lemon, alcohol, caramel, and honey. Taste is sweet peach, toffee, roast malt, honey, rum soaked fruits. Has a sweet roast finish also with a hop spice. Medium body, very silky texture.

A love it! OK I’m really drunk and handing out great ratings right now. But I think this one honestly deserves it. It takes the sweetness of the cuvee 1 and gives it more of a caramelized flavor. Also emphasizes a savory buttery quality that reminds me of buttermilk biscuits. Delicious.

Pours a faint, lasting ring of beige head with a copper body. Toasted sugar and bread aroma. Toasted, roasted malt flavor with a dark, sweet backbone. Smooth, woody, vanilla notes. Hint of dryness on the finish.

Sampled at the ’Butter’s Last Supper’ tasting. Side by side with the number 1. Pours a darker mahogany with thin ring of white head. Nose is a smokier, richer version of the 1. Flavor is very vanilla, oak, green wood, smoke malt, and caramel. More creamy texture. Definitely my favorite of the two. Blatantly sweet, and delicious.

Thanks to David for bringing the bottle! Poured reddish-amber with a creamy, well-retained cap of beige head. The aroma picked up soft, warmer malts in the form of toffee, caramel, and vanilla with solid accents of mild oak and a touch of vinous character.. balance was spot-on. The flavor opened with syrupy caramel and vanilla notes, with some darker fruit, with the fruit and vanilla settling in more over the middle.. spicy, earthy notes and earth surrounded.. finished warm, but again well balanced. Medium-plus bodied with light, rolling carbonation on the palate.. spicy and engaging.. I’d drink this again, but perhaps not at the going price.

On draught during the Autumn Brew Review in Minneapolis, MN. Pours a semi-clear brownish amber colored brew with a creamy beige head that has some nice retention and lacing. Aroma of caramel malt, a touch of raisin, vanilla, some bourbon and a touch of roasted nuts. Taste is medium to full bodied, with flavors of caramel, vanilla, brown sugar and a touch of berries. Finish is quite smooth with some berry and caramel malt aftertaste. Major improvement over the Cuvée Series 1.

Another bottle from skinnyguy. This one has a much more pronounced presence than series 1. Molasses and syrupy sweetness. A bit of bourbon alcohol on the finish. Aroma is plum, prune, and alcohol. Sweet candy, caramel in the aroma as well. That thing is pungent once it warms up a bit. Better here but the oaking is messing this thing up. Let’s see this without any age and see what happens. Then I will be able to tell you what happens with the rest of the beer.