Uncharted Waters: Phantom Ship
Heavy Seas Brewing Company in Halethorpe, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
7.29
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Phantom Ship is an exciting Belgian-style tripel aged in bourbon barrels. Goldenrod in color with a dense head and creamy mouthfeel, this robust, bold brew presents phenolic flavors of white pepper and peach skin from the warm fermentation, along with vanilla and subtle spiciness from the bourbon-barrel aging.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from Bruisin’ Ales. Pours hazy dirty copper gold with a transient beige head. Aroma of brown sugar, peach and hot spice. Med body or better. Flavor is wood, peach, a little pepper, some earthy phenolics, but I am not having success with bourbon. Might be in this complex mix. Finishes towards dry with peppery spice. Verging on astringent. Good stuff for an evening.
Tried
on 19 Jun 2017
at 15:26
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Deep copper coloured body with a very thin, single centimetre tall off-white head. As soon as the top is cracked, the bubbles spill over and leave a bunch of the beer everywhere. Aroma of rich oak, grain, yeast, hay, grass, dry oak and a lot of candy sugar along with some apples and light fruits. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong rich oaky and dry flavours with some coriander seed, curacao, full oranges, grass, oak, vanilla and quite a bit of alcohol, syrup and unfinished sugars. Aftertaste shows some oak, dry grain, caster sugar, vanilla, light grapes, apples, pears and a bit of figs and pitted fruits. Overall, a good rich and very dry beer with some complex flavours, but nothing overwhelmingly so. A bit too dry, herbal, fruity and grassy, but shows well and is very subdued and easy-to-drink given the style and ABV. A good age to this bottle, it was very clean already, another year or two would be nice, but not necessary. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 17-May-2015 for US$9,61 sampled at home in Washington on 15-November-2016 with a special code on the back as 15032.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Nov 2016
at 01:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
The Bodega, Brooklyn tap: pours orange with little head. Aroma is a bit of barrell with fruit and spice and that fun stuff. Taste is a bit sweet. Tad bit spicy. Alcohol is pretty nicely covered. Not too bad.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Dec 2015
at 22:34
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft @ Heavy Seas Alehouse, Baltimore. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty weak woody aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty weak woody flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Nov 2015
at 12:24
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle: (label says 10%) Copper-orange with a small beige head. Sweet orange, peach, banana aroma. Taste is sticky, sweet fruit, banana, peach..... Not a lot of wood or bourbon notes....though it does have a bit of spicy heat towards the finish. Tasty, but a bit too sweet and rich to drink much of.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2015
at 20:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bomber from Beer Run, 4/12/15. Clear orange, thin fizzy off-white head. Decent retention. Aroma of rum, wood, spice, yeast, candi sugar, caramel. The taste is stone fruit, caramel, rum, wood, booze, yeast, spice. Medium bodied, slight heat, low carbonation. Decent but could use some age.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jun 2015
at 21:49