Heavy Seas

Heavy Seas Overhauls Website

Heavy Seas recently overhauled their website. The newly created version is visually stunning, highlighting the most recent brewery news and releases. Another fun enhancement is the a Beer Finder, for those looking for Heavy Seas Beer. [HeavySeas]

Heavy Seas Crossbones This Fall

Amidst a few beers that Heavy Seas   As long as the brewery can keep up, a new oyster stout will join the lineup this fall.  The beer is Crossbones.  Bones is described as “dry in style and dark in color from Continue Reading →

Heavy Seas & Devils Backbone Create Land Ho!

Heavy Seas is on the cusp of releasing a new collaboration brewed with Devils Backbone (Roseland, Virginia).  The beer is quite befitting a pirate – a “black pilsner.”  Jason Oliver, brewmaster of Devils Backbone grew up and brewed in the Baltimore/DC Continue Reading →

Heavy Seas Plank II In April

Heavy Seas Plank II– the second of the series arrives in April.  The series features beers showcasing special wood aging treatments. (Heated planks of unique wood.)

II is a Doppelbock style lager matured with specially treated Eucalyptus and Yellow Poplar wood Continue Reading →

Sneak Peek At Heavy Seas Alehouse Menu

Heavy Seas Alehouse “officially” opens next week, but they are already seating customers.  A little peek at the menu, from BaltimoreMagazine:

Bill of Fare as they call it, is divided into:

First Try This, with dishes from the raw bar like oysters, Continue Reading →

Heavy Seas Maroons A Few Offerings

Heavy Seas Brewing is experiencing what a lot of brewers are experiencing lately – growing pains.  As Heavy Seas expands and adjusts to demand, a few things have get cut.  These releases will be “marooned” from the 2012 lineup.  AARSH Continue Reading →

Posted in Heavy Seas, Seasonal Return

Start Looking for Heavy Seas Pumpkin Offerings

Heavy Seas Brewing (Baltimore, MD) is ready to ship (or already shipping) The Great Pumpkin & Great’ER Pumpkin. The difference? Great’ER spends time in bourbon.

The Great Pumpkin – 8.5%
Our fall seasonal, The Great Pumpkin is the pumpkin beer you spend the summer looking forward to: a robust amber ale to which we add a blend of pumpkin spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, and allspice) while it’s in the kettle. Dark brown sugar adds color and a little bit of dryness to the spicy ale. Look for it in bottles and on draft.

The Great’ER Pumpkin, the bourbon barrel-aged version of The Great Pumpkin. Our brewers wrangled fresh, just-emptied bourbon barrels from A. Smith Bowman Distillery in Virginia, then fill them with The Great Pumpkin, and let the beer age inside the barrel for three weeks–bringing out vanilla and oak notes. The Great’ER Pumpkin will come out in very limited supply, in bottles and on draft.  

Style: Pumpkin Ale (w/ Cinnamon, Clove, Allspice, Nutmeg)  Some, Barrel Aged
Availability: 22 oz bombers, Draft

8.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Heavy Seas

Heavy Seas Overhauls Website

Heavy Seas recently overhauled their website. The newly created version is visually stunning, highlighting the most recent brewery news and releases. Another fun enhancement is the a Beer Finder, for those looking for Heavy Seas Beer. [HeavySeas]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Heavy Seas

Heavy Seas Crossbones This Fall

Amidst a few beers that Heavy Seas   As long as the brewery can keep up, a new oyster stout will join the lineup this fall.  The beer is Crossbones.  Bones is described as “dry in style and dark in color from 6 types of malt, balanced with 3 kinds of hops.”

This dry style of stout is so named as it pairs very well with oysters.  Made with six malts three hops.

Style: Stout (w/ oysters)
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: October, 2012.  Through March, 2013

4.7% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Devils Backbone, Heavy Seas, New Releases

Heavy Seas & Devils Backbone Create Land Ho!

Heavy Seas is on the cusp of releasing a new collaboration brewed with Devils Backbone (Roseland, Virginia).  The beer is quite befitting a pirate – a “black pilsner.”  Jason Oliver, brewmaster of Devils Backbone grew up and brewed in the Baltimore/DC Area and known Heavy Sea’s Hugh Sisson for long time.   Hugh approached Jason to work on a new collab and of course he took the opportunity.

A few months back, the Heavy Seas crew went down to Devils Backbone in Virginia to start work on Land Ho!.  The first round was brewed on Backbone’s pilot system.

We designed it to have subtle dark malt notes without being too heavy and balanced by the pronounced noble hop character of a pilsner.  With both our breweries doing multiple black versions of previously paler beer styles this approach seemed to satisfy our collective tastes and fill a niche neither of us have done before. 

Next stop was to scale it up to Heavy Sea’s 50 barrel brewhouse to keg and bottle.

About Land Ho!
This black pilsner adheres to tradition: Noble hops contribute a delicate aroma and slight bitterness to the malt-forward beer, which has a hint of roasted character. The dark color belies the beer’s clean finish and light body. Land Ho! was designed to have some heft, but still maintain drinkability. The style was chosen by Heavy Seas’ brewmaster Ernie Igot, a black pilsner aficionado, and the initial recipe was formulated by Jason Oliver, brewmaster of Devils Backbone; the brewers of both Heavy Seas and Devils Backbone refined the beer to have just the right nose, color, and taste.

Style: Pilsner
Hops: Warrior, Tettnang
Malts:  2-Row, Carapils, BlackPrinz, Caramel

Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: Already avail at Devil’s.  HS release May, 2012.

5.25% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Heavy Seas

Heavy Seas Plank II In April

Heavy Seas Plank II– the second of the series arrives in April.  The series features beers showcasing special wood aging treatments. (Heated planks of unique wood.)

II is a Doppelbock style lager matured with specially treated Eucalyptus and Yellow Poplar wood planks.  Six-foot planks of Eucalyptus and Poplar were placed in the fermenter and allowed to age with the beer for six weeks.  Look for it early April.  [PressRelease]

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Heavy Seas

Sneak Peek At Heavy Seas Alehouse Menu

Heavy Seas Alehouse “officially” opens next week, but they are already seating customers.  A little peek at the menu, from BaltimoreMagazine:

Bill of Fare as they call it, is divided into:

First Try This, with dishes from the raw bar like oysters, smoked mussels, and crab salad, and other items like beet pickled eggs, braised bacon, and charcuterie and cheese.

And Then Try This, with bigger plates like 24-hour beef short rib, roasted chicken, and a Heavy Seas Burgers. What’s great is that these dishes are paired with a recommended beer. For instance, the grilled hanger steak is matched with a Loose Cannon American IPA.

With Something on the Side, with offerings ranging from traditional onion rings and fries to Brussels sprouts with smoked pancetta and caramelized onion and farrotto risotto with pork confit, Portobello, and Parmesan cheese.

And, of course, there are lots of great drinks, including bottled beer, red and white wine, cocktails, and a nice rum selection.

Heavy Seas Alehouse
1300 Bank St, Baltimore, MD 21231 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Heavy Seas, Release Schedule

Heavy Seas Maroons A Few Offerings

Heavy Seas Brewing is experiencing what a lot of brewers are experiencing lately – growing pains.  As Heavy Seas expands and adjusts to demand, a few things have get cut.  These releases will be “marooned” from the 2012 lineup.  AARSH Red (Imperial Red Ale), Big DIPA (Imperial IPA), Hang Ten (Doppleweizen), Holy Sheet! (Abbey Ale), Prosit! (Oktoberfest) , Smoke on the Water (Smoked Porter), Yule Tide (Belgian Tripel).  

The home brew competition winner, sold under the label Letter Of Marque will also be retired after this spring.  This year’s winning style is a “triple wit.”   Look for it for the last time in May, 2012.  






 


by Reid Ramsay