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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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
(On Tap) Clear coppery brown with reasonable head. Subtle malty aroma. Light bodied, light carbonation. Taste starts with caramel malt that is steadily replaced with pleasant hoppy bitterness. Nice sessionable IPA.
Tried from Draft on 10 May 2015 at 08:13

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
4 oz pour on cask dry-hopped with Citra at ChurchKey. Hazy golden orange with off-white head. Aromas of orange and lemon citrus, floral. Tastes of citrus, floral, light pine. Light body with a dry finish.
Tried from Cask on 03 May 2015 at 20:52

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Sampled on draft at 3R6P this beer poured a vibrant golden color with a medium sized foamy white head that left a bit of lacing. The aroma was tangy pine and cactus. The flavor was bitter and sour pine, lemon, cactus and an off undertone. Medium length finish. Medium body. Meh.
Tried from Draft on 01 May 2015 at 21:36

7.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Aroma: floral, citrus, caramel, pine Appearance: golden, clear, white head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: light body, slick feel, average carbonation, long finish, Decent.
Tried on 01 May 2015 at 18:37

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
12 oz. bottle purchased at 7/11, Kittery, ME. On the neck stamped best before May 24 2015. Murky orange color with lasting soapy head. The aroma is mild leafy green hops, pine and dirty herbal notes.

The body is medium with a decent lingering pine and dirty floral bitterness leading into a dry texture. The overall character of this brew has a big bready/ bread backbone. The hops remind me of a few former girlfriends I have had in the past... Dirty and a tad off balance.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Apr 2015 at 00:37

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Tap at Good Beer, New York. Colour is slightly cloudy orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, some grape, some pine, hops and malts.
Tried from Draft on 19 Feb 2015 at 20:16

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle at home in Salisbury - picked up at De Cicco Armonk. Pours clear gold with a frothy white head. The aroma has notes of ripening citrus, hay, pale bread. The flavor is a little too bitter, perhaps slightly astringent, with grainy pale malts, hay, pine needles, citrus peel. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Rindy and grainy finish with more grass, light astringency, lemon peel, pale bread. Not bad, just a little out of balance.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Feb 2015 at 22:21

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Bottle. Orange malt and orange peel/quinine aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Sweet orange malt and lightly bitter orange peel flavor. Light body. Weak - not much to it.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Feb 2015 at 18:44

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
On nitro at City Tap House, DC. Smooth, fruity, mild hops, lots of citrus. Light bodied, but flavorful. Hops, malt floral notes. Check it out.
Tried from Draft on 08 Feb 2015 at 23:46

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draft. Clear golden amber color, medium white head. Aroma of light citrus, mostly grapefruit. Taste is lightly bitter citrus. Nice.
Tried from Draft on 30 Jan 2015 at 16:00