Heavyweight Slice of Bread

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

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Bottle shared by jimmack at Paul’s Thanksgiving weekend bash. Poured a marmalade orange body with a small foamy off white head. Aroma of rye bread, bread crusts, orange citrus and dough. Thin watery body with some astringent carbonation. Flavor of rye seeds, bread, bread crust, orange and lemon pulp. Solid beer and actually pretty darn good for how old this one was.

Bottle at Paul’s tasting. Pours a lightly hazed golden orange with a thin white head. Caraway and rye, toast and oxidized malt. Toast, spicy citrus and rye. Sweet and toast. Lots of rye. This has held up very well.

Bottle shared by Jimmack at Paul’s gathering. Pours light caramel color. Nose and taste of literally a slice of rye bread - pumpernickel, rye, bread and caraway seed. Very solid for its age.

Bottle shared by JCB. Nice! This beer was a bit past its prime but still very fun to drink. Nose showed some light tartness (sour apple), fading rye malts, bread, a bit of caraway, mild oxidation. Flavor is a bit more tart than the nose, slightly bready, but this has lost most of its unique character in my opinion. Would have loved to try this fresh.

750ml from Cornboy - thanks, John! Man, I am so happy to finally try this beer. Thankfully, it’s held up far better than other HWs of this vintage (Cornboy must have stored it perfectly!). Nice dingy brown pour, kind of like an oud bruin if not for the bits of orange at the edges. Cloudy with yeast, tart nose with mild oxidation. Tart sour apples in the nose, some mild berry. Taste is lovely sour brown with the rye and caraway giving a still detectable twist to the bready goodness. Medieval beer, yo.

Bottle shared by JCB, who is the king of rounding up retired Heavyweight beers and sharing them. And he thinks we hang out with him because we actually like him! Pours bright amber orange with an active off-white head. Nose is like sticking your face in a bread bag. Inhaling inside that bread bag (only once or twice so as not to suffocate), some caraway notes add to the rye malt nose, and there is quite a bit of tart yeast. The taste is quite tart. Odd, but still complex. Bet this was awesome when a bit more fresh.

Thanks JCB for sharing. Pours a hazy amber with a one to two finger frothy offwhite head. The nose was showed some caraway, malty, mildly sweet, some oxidation, bready for sure, malty, Held up better to age than I thought it would have. The flavor is a little tart/sour, oxidized, malty, crisp/spicy, bready, some sweetness. Palate is crisp and spicy. Nice.

Thanks to JCB for sharing this gem. I have to admit im quite surprised by some of the low rates here. I also think this was stored at optimal conditions because it was holding up extremely well! Hazy dull orange pour with a fluffy tan head and spotty lace. Bread, juniper berries & some slight signs of oxidation on the nose. Bread, yeast, spice, and slightly acidic

[Bottle] shared by Tyler. Pours a cloudy orange with a large beige head. Aroma is bready yeast, slight orange, a little fruity, minerally, gravelly hard water, and some spices. Flavor is really thin and remarkably absent. There is a touch of tartness and yeast on the finish followed by the minerally hard water taste.

(bottle shared by tytoanderso, thanks Tyler!) Pours hazy orange with a white head. Aroma is certainly muted, but what is there is some spicy rye, ample must and staleness. The flavor is almost non-existent until the mid-palate reveals a spike of tartness that settles into a lightly dry and bread-like finish. The mouthfeel is medium and that carbonation is very lively. A neat idea for sure, but this bottle is past its prime.