Heavyweight Perkunos Hammer Imperial Porter

Formerly brewed at Heavyweight Brewing Company
Style: Baltic Porter
Ocean Township, New Jersey USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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bottle shared at 5000 tasting - sour darkness, chocolate, a touch of bile. Bready malts, grass and some must, some wine. Some oxidation, but this held up surprisingly well anyway.

Bottle generously shared during RBSG. Dark pour. Aroma is smoky with a thick dark chocolate quality. Flavor is full of dark chocolate with a surprising tartness. Fizzy mouthfeel with a tart-dark chocolate finish. Unique and enjoyable.

2004 Heavyweight Perkuno’s Hammer Imperial Porter. Pours a very dark chestnut brown that appears black and completely opaque in the glass with a thin mocha colored head that quickly fades into a thin ring. Small spots of lacing left behind. Slightly smokey sweet malt aroma with some boozy sweetness and dark fruit notes. Roasty but not acrid smelling with hints of chocolate, molasses, licorice, oatmeal, and toast. Slightly oxidized with a sweet, boozy dark malt flavor. Pretty smokey with hints of charcoal, burnt toast, bbq and bacon countered by bittersweet dark chocolate, boozy sweetness, toffee and oatmeal. Lingering dry finish.

Malzig-prickelnder Antrunk, zu Beginn noch recht mild. Durchgehend mittelherb, das ab dem Mittelteil durchschimmernde Malz wird im Nachgeschmack würziger und klebriger, wirkt aber auch wässrig und beschert so einen milden Abgang mit verhaltener Süße. Danke an den Doppelbock! 10/8/9/10/8/9

Tasted on 3/27/11 from a 12oz bottle, 2004 vintage. Pours opaque and oily black with a thick light brown head that quickly recedes to nothing more than a thin collar of lace. The nose is quite oxidized with tons of toasted hazelnut and hints of dark malt and coffee. The flavor is not quite as oxidized, but still features toasted hazelnut with more lively molasses, dark chocolate, and coffee. The body is full with lively carbonation and a long nutty and dark chocolate finish.

’06 bottle sampled April ’11.

Dark pour with a beautiful creamy deep-tan head. Wonderful, wonderful nose. It seems strange to describe an aroma as "chewy", but this one is chewy. Cocoa powder and a hint of peat-smoke, oxidation in a good way (and at five years, what did you expect?) , molasses, plum jam. Flavor is surprisingly tart (a bit of infection?) but one quickly acclimates. Mouthfeel is a bit prickly. Some soy sauce, chewy plum pudding, Swiss milk chocolate, chocolate toffee. Fascinating beer now; like Solan’s mom I would have loved to have tried it in its youth.

Bottle at the double 5k tasting. Pours a deep black to brown. Oxidized malt, chewy toast and vanilla on the nose. Smells supersweet. Oxidized plum. Big chewy mouthfeel. Lots of oxidization on the finish.

Bottle shared at Paul and Ryan’s 5,000th rate tasting. Pours near black with a beige head. Roasty aroma with some light fruity sweetness. The flavor has roasted malts, a hint of oxidation, and some very lightly sour fruitiness. Not that bad for how old the bottle is.

2004 Bottle thanks to CaptainCougar. My first Heavyweight ever. Pours with a deep brown body and a very faint and fleeting brown head. Coats the glass decently well. Aromas of dark fruits, dusty cocoa, oatmeal cookies, lead, earth and wood. Flavors of licorice, cocoa powder, leather, figs, spruce, chocolate, cola and raisins. Decently earthy as well. Holding up pretty well it would seem (I have nothing to compare it to). Medium carbonation. Milk chocolate finish. Mellow, but no obvious signs of age. A solid baltic porter!

Bottles, 2005 and 2006. Both poured thick and brown with strong, beige heads. Aroma of dark, roasted malts, coffee and bitter chocolate. Sweet flavor with lots of mocha, some tartness, and bits of smoke. Full bodied with soft, smooth carbonation. Finishes with lightly dry roast, chocolate sweetness and lingering smoke. The ’06 seemed a bit thinner and more tart, while the ’05 was more relaxed and attenuated. I give the ’05 a 4.3 and the ’06 a 3.9.