Southern Tier Cuvée Series 2

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

Picked this one up at Vintage Estate in Boardman, OH. Southern Tier and I have a love hate relationship..I love choklat and Javah, not a fan of really anything else I have had. Look is quite interesting, the closest comparison I could make is coffee bender. A creme soda like color, completely clear brown with a really quite remarkable head of cream colored foam that leaves a thick coating of lace. Scent is caramel and fruit. Very light woodiness. Smells extremely sweet, I must be insane, but I get pineapple from the scent. This isn’t bad, just odd. Taste reels it in a bit to bring this into more familiar territory. This is certainly not classifiable, and I am getting some major complexities. Started off creamy and stoutlike, ending on a very thick almost cask conditioned feel and hints of not just dark fruits. Very good. I am a sucker for thick body and low carbonation. This has it all right. Overall, this is almost impossible to compare to another beer and gives me some more hope for ST in general. Looking forward to trying the other two in the Cuvee series.

saved this beer for four months after purchase and broke it out for after dinner with some family members. Pours a rich burnt reddish brown with nearly no head but tight spirals of bubbles. smell was caramel and vanilla and old oak. The taste made me expect some alcohol bite due to so much whisky like flavors but the only finish was a slight bitterness. tasted like a nice moist piece of oak with some raisin or grappa notes as well. A fine ale to be savored in every velvety sip.

MMMMMMM mmmmmmmm MMMMMMMM!!!!! Pours a dark dark ruby with a good off white head. The aroma is complex, oakey and sweet, big notes of caramel, maple, vanilla, lighter notes of raisin, cherry, and something else I can’t pin. The flavour is the bee’s knees of strong ale, caramel, butter scotch toffee, oakey vanilla notes, flavored espresso, a slight slight note of good bourbon. A superb beer, surprised at the low marks.....perhaps because of the sweetness?? Top notch though!!

Bottle at Sune’s Sommerhus - shared with Mette, Bager & Sune. Clear reddish - white head. High american oak, caramel, chocolate, cocoa, sweetness, vanilla, light bourbon, coconut, light malty. Hides the alcohol ery good - but taste only of oak !!!

Thin light beige head of fine bubbles. Sweet vanilla and butterscotch aroma. Yummy! Candy sugar, sweet malts, lots of caramel and some light oak. Color is a dark crimson brown. Sweet caramel in the flavor with more vanilla and oak. Creamy smooth in the mouth. Alcohol is hidden very well and this brew is going down SUPER easy which is not a good thing for an 11% brew. Kind of like a big thick and sweet barleywine. I like this brew a lot. The oak is mild but noticable and does not depart any real tartness which is fine for this brew. Finishes sweet and creamy smooth. I like this brew much better than the first one. Good stuff!

Bomber. Pours with a small soapy off white head. Clear brown body. Aroma is oak, wood, caramel, malt, vanilla. Flavor is oak, vanilla, caramel. Slight hoppiness. Nothing that stands out all that much. NIce syrupy mouthfeel.

Dark amber/copper color; decently clear (cloudy in the final pour). Modest head that settles to a single layer of minute bubbles. Interesting web-like lace. Deep sweet darker malt aromas. On the negative side there is a strong metal (aluminum). Rich bodied, potent alcohol. Not as sweet as the smell would suggest. Something of a one-trick pony. Mild hop flavor in the background; not really noticeable in the swallow. The aftertaste is quite short. Warms the throat and belly.

Draft and bottled. Pours an orange body with an off white head. Sweet and chewy with a vanilla, dried fruit sweetness and caramel. A dry bitter finish. okay.