Heavyweight Ch-Chuck

Formerly brewed at Heavyweight Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Ocean Township, New Jersey USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottled. A slightly hazy deep red beer with a thin orange head. The aroma is very special with a mixture of cinnamon, violet, cloves, berries, and alcohol. The flavor is slightly acidic with strong notes of berries and spices as well as lighter notes of alcohol, wood, and metal. The acidity is very bret like.

(Bottle 75 cl) Pours a hazy, reddish brown with a yellowish head. Fantastic aroma of oak and vanilla. Medium-bodied with lightly sour accents and an edge of oak. Quite interesting. 240706

UPDATED: APR 5, 2006 Bottled. Hazy reddish brown. Wonderful lactic acidity in the nose with vague notes of sour cherries. Light, rounded malt profile. There’s perfumy notes as well as rosehip. Unfortunately the promising aroma doesn’t really carry over into the flavour and it all fizzes out a bit quick. But what an aroma...

Bottle. Hazy orange brown coloured with a beige head. Aroma of wood and horse blanket with acidic notes. Flavour of caramel and wood with acidic notes.

Date: 04/22/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

muddy dark red, scant white head, big tart cherry aroma, thin body, bit tart cherry flavor, big oak character,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

Dark amber colour. Very hazy. Slight oaky, cherryish, rodenbachy aroma. Very light body and restrained flavour. Hints of cherry. Not much backing the oak and cherry up (malt and mouthfeel I’m looking for) and even the most up-front flavours lack conviction. Oh well, you don’t always succeed every time you experiment.

(750ml bottle) Pours a murky reddish-brown body with a medium-sized beige head. Aroma of cocoa, oak, cherry, and a hint of smoke. Flavor of malt and brett. Thanks for sharing Walt!

(11/3/07, 750ml bottle, thanks eclectic) Minimal beige head with clear copper body. Aroma is medium sweet, brett, caramel, brown sugar, some cherry, light Bourbon, cinnamon. Taste is medium sweet, brett/cherry, caramel. Medium body with no carbonation. Alas, I fear that this beer is showing its age.

Bottle at ØLbaren - thanks to Jeppe. Unclear brown - no head. Nice sourness, gooseberries, maltyness, brown sugar, light acid, light woody, caramel, light sweetness. Pleasant.

750ml bottle-pours a foamy, dissipating, tan head. Cloudy orange-red color. Aroma is cherry, malt, achohol. Taste is cherry, vinegar, oaky, white wine. Texture as it goes across the tongue is resin-like. Similar characteristics to Rodench Flemish, which is an acquired taste.