A new brewery for the second in our Barleywine series. Tonight we talk about Clipper City Heavy Seas Below Decks.
News
Tonight’s story is from across the pond from the UK. Police raided a 16th birthday party at a leisure centre in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and seized 110 pints of beer, or about 13.75 gallons. A police spokesman said: “The amount of alcohol … could have resulted in someone being seriously ill or hurt if they had been able to consume it.” I must say, that seems like quite a bit of beer for a 16 year olds birthday party.
Heavy Seas Below Deck
- Well, I think that we said we would be doing a beer from Brooklyn this week, but as normal we have changed things up a bit on the show. Instead, we are going to be doing a beer from Clipper City Brewing and their Heavy Seas series.
- Clipper City was founded by Hugh Sisson in 1995. Mr. Sisson also operated Baltimores first brewpub, named Sisson’s in 1989.
- In 1998 Clipper City bought Oxford Brewing Company and expanded in size. They currently brew about 15,000 barrels a year.
- The website says that the brewery is named for the famed Clipper ship, first developed and built in Baltimore.
- The Heavy Seas line is made up of beers that are a bit higher in alcohol, including the beer that we are going to talk about tonight, Heavy Seas Below Deck Barleywine.
- Below Deck weighs in at around 10% ABV which is about average for the style.
- It was created to celebrate Clipper City’s 10th Anniversary and is extremely limited and “vintage” dated. It is made with both three type of malts and three types of hops.
Next Week
Well next week we are going to be staying in the Maryland area with Flying Dog Horn Dog Barleywine, so tune in and listen.
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