Heavy Seas Small Craft Warning Review #58

Heavy Seas Small Craft Warning
Style: Uber Pils/Heller Bock
ABV: 7%
Part Of The Pyrate Fleet Rotation
A 12oz Bottle Poured Into A Dogfish Head Lager Glass

Malts: German Pils and Carapils
Hops: Amarillo, Saaz, Hersbrucker and Tettnang
We call this beer an Uber Pils - a pilsner style bock lager. Rich, malty, and well rounded but with a firm structure of noble hops. Surprisingly pale in color for such a powerful, complex beer. Available year round beginning Feb. 05.

Clipper City Brewing Company
Baltimore, Maryland
Hugh Sisson
1995

Appearance:
Burning Sun Color
Foggy Clarity
Compact Soapy Head
Stubborn Head Retention
Antique Lacing
Stark Carbonation

Aroma:
Super Sweet Aroma, Almost To A Level Of Werthers
Rich Pil Malts
Mild Hop Undertones
Honey Dew
Cantaloupe
Pear
Peach
Fresh Baked Bread
Bathroom Soap

Mouth Feel:
Lively And Clean Feeling
Medium Body With Chewable Characteristics
Alcohol Is Barely Noticeable
Refreshing
Quite Drinkability, Without All The Blandness That Sometimes Comes With The Pilsner Territory
Weirdly Balanced
Sweet/Bitter Balance
"Sitting By The Dock On The Bay" Beer. Eating Steam Crabs On The Water Sitting And Drinking
Palate Is A Thick Creamy And Oily
"Euro Beer" Feel

The taste is truly odd; super sweet malt heavy bock and buttered caramel, up against a Euro-hopped floral overly bitter middle. In the finish noble hops re-appear later in the session and the bitterness laces the aftertaste like a hooker with a bad attitude. The result is a wickedly bi-polar beer, sweet for one second and bitter the next second. A decent imperial pilsner, not a staple beer for me, but I like the cut of its jib. It is much better than the Budweiser shit that is out there.  


2 1/2 Out Of 6
The Sweet Value In This Beer Lowers The Score
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