Heavyweight Chuck

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

Serve in Dimpled mug

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(750 ml bottle: Shared by SDbruboy at O’Brien’s, thanks Cliff!) Wow, this is one of the most unique beers I’ve ever tasted. I’m not even sure what words to use to describe the nose and flavor, so I’ll put that off for last. Pours a medium brown color, fully cloudy in appearance. Light tan head is very active on the pour, but fades to a halo soon after. The words that come to mind when I smell this beer are funk, cheese, barnyard and sour. I’m sure there are better ways to describe the nose, but I just can’t place many of the aromas. It’s just not something you smell every day when you live at the beach. The flavor is funky, sour, and acidic. Kind of reminds me of Champagne in a way. Light grapefruit, and mild dark malts. The finish fades off a bit and is a bit weak. Clean, lightly zesty palate. I need to drink more of these types of beers to get better at identifying these unusual flavors. Look forward to trying this beer again at a later date and maybe I’ll appreciate it more.

This poured a murky brown color with a small biege head. Aroma was pretty much all funk but not really lacto or bret, some weird funk that i havent really smelled before. Flavor was light traces of brown ale but still mainly funk and sourness.

750 bottle @RBSG shared by Jimmack-pours a thin light tan head and dark amber color with some particles. Taste is tart, brett, medium malt. Taste is acidic/tart fruit-lemon, brett, drying, light/medium malt.

75 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to orange with a small tan head. Aroma is smooth fruity and herbal. Light brett and leathery. Dry and dark roasted malty and herbal hoppy dry.

A brown/red pour with a bit of tan head and lace. A light sour and roasted malt. Sour maltiness and a hinto choco. Very sour. Thin and fizzy.

Date: 04/29/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Dark Lord Day, 2005

muddy brown, musky Belgian aroma, huge sour flavor masking anything else,

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 3/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 2/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.4/5.0
Score: 4
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Last HWOH. I think cornboy brought this. This is a flemish wild/brown ale with tons of wild yeas tand bacteria character. Aroma is pretty much straight up blue cheese- funky, stinky cheese, tons of brett horseblanket as well. Flavor is slightly sour, funky, yeasty, doughy, musty and old with lightt oxidation/cardboard. More blue cheese as well. Fizzy carbonation due to lots of refermentation in the bottle, but settles after a while. Pretty good- real funky though.

750 bottle. I was sitting on this for a while so I finally gave it a try. Not a bad beer. Along the Belgian style of brown ales. Very dark for a brown. Might have been slightly past it’s prime but still a good beer.

I have had this brew on several occasions before and it is definately starting to turn. Thin sheet of dense creamy foam. Very good carbonation. Awesome hot spot of head generation keeps a sheen on the surface. This is how a beer is supposed to look. It actually looks like a fine belgian. Dark fruit and a slight sourness (brett as everybody calls it). Sort of a tart cranberry and even a little raspberry. Some spices in the aroma (ginger). Color is a very impresive dark reddish brown. Fizzy and lively in the mouth. Dry and tart. Little metallic up front which kind of put you off initially. The the dry tartness kicks in and you find yourself struggling to find saliva. A little too dry and tart for my liking. Obviously not the original intention of the brown ale. Finish is dry and tart again with what seems like a little grittyness. Finally a beer I that I can understand the descripter of horse blanket. Except that you are not smelling it but eating one. I probably would have liked this brew better when it was fresh as these tart one are not my cup of tea.

Gloomy rust. Thick lily pad of brownish foam with some rockiness. Gloriously funky, acetic nose of band-aid phenolics and musty stone. Fruity yeast hints. Soft carbonation, but oh so tight and creamy with some expansion, as well. Quite airy and “wildly” yeasty, at first. Brett deposits oodles of sharp medicinal phenols, which compounds the musty, gritty underlay. Funkiness soon gives way to a downy-soft husky malt base, with accents of nuts and sweet bread, but the artful mesh of medicine and dried leather remain to perfectly temper the huskiness. Late hint of unripe plum acidity, but the tartness is now more of a background element, as the malt persistently keeps it at bay. Exemplary balance in the finish, albeit anticlimactic, with steadily waning shades of musty yeast and chewy, husky malts. The finish needs some work (more intensity, in particular). Otherwise, this is delectably rustic.

Bottle... Muddy, light brown ale with a large, fizzy, tan/orange head. The breadsy, spicy nose releases tart notes of cola nut and lemon. Perfectly balanced, dry and tart. Light-bodied and fizzy. Lengthy, tart, dry finish. Don’t buy it expecting a true, English brown ale. Very Flemish. Thanks go out to growler for sharing the bottle.