Heavyweight Chuck

Formerly brewed at Heavyweight Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Ocean Township, New Jersey USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

Cloudy brown. Big pineapple and mango aroma. Light bodied and quite dry. Yeasty and slightly tart. A very enjoyable brew made with an interesting twist.

Sampled at ratebeer party... thanks! Pours cloudy with a nice brown color. The taste hits you as sour at first and becomes more fruit and spice. Then the yeast takes hold and makes this a champagne like drink. Sip slow and enjoy!

Bottle - thanks to Eyedrinkale for the trade. Pours a murky reddish brown color - almost opaque - with a small beigey head. Unique aroma, lots of soured fruit and funkiness, evidence of the wild yeast and dry champagne and geuze notes along with the infamous horse blanket smell. Flavor is also of soured dark fruits, dry and vinious, oak and musty funk. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Unlike DaSilky1, this is not my favorite style, so I’ve got to give it props for complexity, but I won’t go seeking it out for a session ale.

This beer reminded me of a couple things. First and foremost, it reminded me of one of my all time favorite ales: Burton Bridge Old Expensive...Furthermore, it reminded me of Pizza Port Mo Betta Bretta with a little more caramel maltiness behind the brett. Anyway, it poured a cloudy, almost muddy reddish brown color with a solid tan head. Aroma was a work of art...streams of funk, sourness, gueuze, nuts, aerosol, cherry, magic marker, and a hint of concentrated grape juice laced with toberlone chocolate. Flavors combined viniously with enough cheesey funk and chocolate nut flavors to keep me grinning. Some cherries, oak accents, and astringent tanginess follow...Amazingly complex for 5%..and I mean amazing! This is the epitome of complex session ale. No doubt about it. This is my style and its not appreciated by most, and i don’t give a damn.

Draght @ Moan & Dove Amherst MA: Pours a deep ruddy brown hue. Sourish, malty nose. Butter, grains, wood, sour, light to medium body, slick mouthfeel, finish with faintly bitter hops and smooth sweet malt. An interesting treat.

I just don’t know what to say about this. A belgian, bubbly ale. Good head., good color. Weird flavor.

amber gold color, lightly cloudy. off-white/tan creamy head. bubblegum aroma, sweet malt too. flavor is sour with funky brett, creamy mouthfeel. light malt backing. faint banana and sour finish. thanks cornboy!

Bottle: Brown & ruby colored body with a tan head. Aroma is wood, apple, spice, pepper, tart cherry. Taste is bitter brettanomyces, very close to Rodenbach (as probiere noted), lemon, tart cherry, medium sour. Courtesy of cornboy.