Heavy Seas Cutlass Vienna Style Lager

Review Date 12/11/2021 By John Staradumsky

  Style: Vienna Lager   Brewery: Clipper City   Country: USA   State: Maryland   $ Per OZ: $.26 (D)   ABV: 5.4%

So this beer popped onto the draft list at Taco Mac about a day before I was headed there for Monday Night Football, wings, and beer: Heavy Seas Cutlass Vienna Style Lager. I love Heavy Seas beers and have since I first started drinking them in the nineties (they were called Clipper City back then). I don’t see them as often as I once did, so when I do, I buy them, and this was no exception. Cutlass Vienna Style Lager went right to the top of beers I would be drinking. Have I mentioned I love Vienna lagers, too?

The night arrived and I ordered up my mug, and it was love at first sip. The beer is packed with deep malty notes, and as Michael Jackson once said, malt is the lifeblood of beer. I hadn’t done any research on Heavy Seas Cutlass Vienna Style Lager, but if I had, I might have read this:

This malty lager is our most award-winning beer: it took gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Great American Beer Festival from 2006 to 2010. Cutlass Amber has a toasted, biscuity character. The slight sweetness comes from Crystal malt. The animal contributes a remarkable smoothness and Munich malt gives an amber color and delicate aroma. Tettnang hops infused the beer with a slight earthiness. Formerly named heavy seas marzen, cutlass amber is our second best selling beer, in 2012, cutlass amber won a silver medal at the world beer cup in the Vienna lager category.

Heavy Seas Cutlass Vienna Style Lager has an alcohol content of 5,4% by volume, and I paid $6.08 for a 23-ounce draft mug at Taco Mac.

Heavy Seas Cutlass Vienna Style Lager pours to a deep caramel color with a moderate head of white foam and a light nutty malt nose. Taking a sip the beer is delightfully caramel malty, a little nutty, chewy malty, and balanced in the finish with gentle hops.

This is a wonderful example of a style I don’t see often enough, and a beer I would absolutely buy again. You should, too.

 Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??