Heavy Seas Brewing Company CrossBones - Session IPA

CrossBones - Session IPA

 

Heavy Seas Brewing Company in Halethorpe, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Session Regular
Score
6.33
ABV: 4.5% IBU: - Ticks: 23
CrossBones is our first new year-round beer since 2003! We worked long and hard to create the perfect session IPA that would satisfy the hoppiest of hop heads, all while not putting them under the table. This session IPA is bursting with floral and citrus notes and has a strong malt backbone to support all of that hoppy goodness. Upon tasting CrossBones, with it’s big body, smooth finish and lingering citrus flavor, it’s hard to imagine that it’s only 4.5%. How do we get all of the aroma and flavor from a beer like Loose Cannon into CrossBones? Avast! You’ll never find me buried treasure!
 

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7

Nice pale ale with a cheeseburger.

TGI Friday's, Newark DE

Tried from Draft on 30 Apr 2017 at 20:15


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Crisp and clear golden and light copper coloured body with a nice, three centimetre tall off-white head and a nice orange glow. Aroma of pale malt, a touch of grassy and slightly tropical hops, and very little else. Light-bodied; Grassy and very slightly herbal flavours noticeable along with a cardboardie malt note and a flavour of oranges near the end. Aftertaste is very mild and subdued with the light hop bitterness and almost nothing else noticeable. Overall, a decent beer at best - very watery with little flavour, especially for the style and on draught! I sampled this sixteen ounce pour on draught at Heavy Seas AleHouse in Arlington (Rosslyn), Virginia on 27-April-2017 for US$7,00.

Tried on 27 Apr 2017 at 11:47


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Grass and dandelion nose. Clear amber, medium head, decint lacing. Dandelion, lilly, honey. Light body, sodt carbonation.

Tried on 19 Aug 2016 at 15:54


3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5

Can, pours like viscous cloudy IPA and smells like it too. Taste is giant bitter mouth coating nasty IPA. You’d never know this was a session. Terribly on prudish style. Nasty terrible yucky ruin my taste bud style. Who wants to drink such terribly bitter beer with out catching a buzz, eh? It ain’t worth’t. Whewwie!

Tried from Can on 09 Sep 2015 at 16:18


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Slightly cloudy copper color with a medium off-white head that recedes steadily. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus, hops and malt. Light-bodied with flavors of sweet citrus, grassy hops and bready malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a short fruity hops aftertaste. Decent overall.

Tried on 25 Aug 2015 at 11:56


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

12 oz. can into a pint. Best by 09/23/2015 A: Average pour yields little head or retention but attractive lacing. Great clarity in the light orange body and almost no visible carbonation. S: Very light and almost undecipherable. Smells sort of like wood. Maybe spruce and some malt bread. Strange for the style. T: Yikes! Hoppy and bitter with a chemical-y pine type thang going on. Not altogether pleasant. No citrus sticks out really. M: Foamy and light going down with a touch of resin on the tongue. O: Unfortunately , there’s no category in which this beer strikes me as recommendable. Not bad but tastes like something with more alcohol but without the great flavors of a full blown IPA. Not purchasing again I’m afraid.

Tried from Can on 31 Jul 2015 at 16:27


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

The Beer Store, Southampton PA sixer: pours orange with a white head. Aroma is light pine and light fruitiness. Taste is moderately bitter. Light sweetness. Not too watery. Not a very interesting session IPA.

Tried on 12 Jul 2015 at 19:27


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pretty big dose of hops here. Almost too much bittering hops much fruity flavor. Pours hazy orange with good head and lacing. Very bitter. Tap at Roslyn brewpub.

Tried from Draft on 06 Jul 2015 at 16:35


4.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

My first somewhat disappointing beer from Heavy Seas. Oily mouthfeel for one, hazy muddy amber from a bottle. Lemon, bitter hop flavor is okay, but overall not a great beer.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jun 2015 at 22:36


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap server from a cask at The American Craft Beer Fest Yesterday. Grassy and a hint on the thin side. Meh

Tried from Draft on 31 May 2015 at 18:36