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Heavy Seas - Hang Ten (Weizen Doppelbock)
Heavy Seas Beer
- From:
- Heavy Seas Beer
- Maryland, United States
- Style:
- Weizenbock
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.8 | pDev: 11.58%
- Reviews:
- 261
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 11, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 19, 2007
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 4
No description / notes.
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Ratings by NeroFiddled:
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.29/5 rDev +12.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.29/5 rDev +12.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This is my favorite beer of the Heavy Seas line-up, not that it's the best, but it's just my preference.
The nose is so rich and complex, with notes of peppery spice greeting you, followed by clove, perhaps something along the lines of nutmeg (although I know there's none in there!), a hint of slightly vinous tartness like dark red fruit or wine, dark fruit skins (plum, perhaps some grape, figs), and a note of dark sugar. As it warms some green banana becomes apparent as well. (And hopefully, the vinous character has to do with pH and yeasty fruitiness and not some underlying infection that will later grow to become something more than charming!).
The flavor is less peppery/spicy, and much fuller with loads of dark fruit. It's decidedly wheaty, but the yeasty fruitiness over-rides it enough that you don't think of it as a wheat beer, but more like a cross between a Belgian dubbel and an English barleywine with weizen yeast in play. Wow!
If there's a flaw to this beer it's that it's kind of sharp and triangular in it's flavor, rather than round (although I like that! Keep in mind that Guinness is kind of out there too!); and the head is hindered by the alcohol. I love the ruby-accented dark amber/copper body though!
I haven't seen this on tap in my area, hopefully I'll get to try some in D.C. a couple of days from now. If it's different I'll post another review. Definitely a charming, kind of unique beer. Well worth trying!
Nov 04, 2007The nose is so rich and complex, with notes of peppery spice greeting you, followed by clove, perhaps something along the lines of nutmeg (although I know there's none in there!), a hint of slightly vinous tartness like dark red fruit or wine, dark fruit skins (plum, perhaps some grape, figs), and a note of dark sugar. As it warms some green banana becomes apparent as well. (And hopefully, the vinous character has to do with pH and yeasty fruitiness and not some underlying infection that will later grow to become something more than charming!).
The flavor is less peppery/spicy, and much fuller with loads of dark fruit. It's decidedly wheaty, but the yeasty fruitiness over-rides it enough that you don't think of it as a wheat beer, but more like a cross between a Belgian dubbel and an English barleywine with weizen yeast in play. Wow!
If there's a flaw to this beer it's that it's kind of sharp and triangular in it's flavor, rather than round (although I like that! Keep in mind that Guinness is kind of out there too!); and the head is hindered by the alcohol. I love the ruby-accented dark amber/copper body though!
I haven't seen this on tap in my area, hopefully I'll get to try some in D.C. a couple of days from now. If it's different I'll post another review. Definitely a charming, kind of unique beer. Well worth trying!
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Ohiovania from Ohio
4.44/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.44/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Aged 2.5 years.
12 oz Poured into snifter
Ripe fruits and sweet malts. No alcohol whatsoever. Slight sparkling apple cider but mostly sweet bready malts and fruit.
SOoo easy to drink. Probably my favorite clipper city/ Heavy seas beer. Too bad they retired it. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
Gonna stock up on bombers before I never get to taste this beer again.
5-10-2014
-Just tried a 2011 bottle I had been aging and it was fantastic. So sad that it was my last bottle. I believe it aged incredibly well.
May 12, 201412 oz Poured into snifter
Ripe fruits and sweet malts. No alcohol whatsoever. Slight sparkling apple cider but mostly sweet bready malts and fruit.
SOoo easy to drink. Probably my favorite clipper city/ Heavy seas beer. Too bad they retired it. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
Gonna stock up on bombers before I never get to taste this beer again.
5-10-2014
-Just tried a 2011 bottle I had been aging and it was fantastic. So sad that it was my last bottle. I believe it aged incredibly well.
Heavy Seas - Hang Ten (Weizen Doppelbock) from Heavy Seas Beer
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
300 ratings
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