Heavyweight Wee Whale

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

Serve in Thistle

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Thanks Paul or whoever shared this. A pretty solid traditional scotch ale, sweet grains of a few different levels of roast, some caramel/toffee and a bit of sweet fruits such as raisins. Medium thickness, good stuff.

Bottle. Pours a hazy bruin body with an off white head. Malty scotch tones, hints of peat, very woody. Light malt tones and caramel with a light fruit and a touch of mint. Some soft vanilla a hint husky like some grain oxidation but hardly any. Very smooth with raisin and a woody finish. Wow did this ever hold up.

Sampled thanks to someone a the post NotB tasting. Poured a cloudy dark brown with an amber hue and a yellowish brown head that lasted throughout hte beer. Aroma had sweet grains and caramel as well as a bit of roasted dark grains. Flavor started with molasses with some sweet grains and bread as well as a hint of raisin.

Courtesy of Pailhead. Dark mahogany/brownish, 1 finger tan head. Aroma is rather fruity, lots of dark fruits, fig, cherry. Flavor has plenty of dark fruits, faint smoke/peat character, faint alcohol. Reminds me of a dubbel more than a scotch, decent nonetheless.

UPDATED: JAN 4, 2011 sampled from a kind soul at dlday 2010... pours a dark caramel brown with a frothy light beige head... sweet honey, caramel malt, and slight oxidation in the aroma but still held up to some degree...sweet malt profile with caramel and toffee and more of that sugary sweetness coming into play. body/carb was light and fluffy.

Bottle in the parking lot at Dark Lord Day. Pours a caramel and ruby hued brown with a thin tan head. Yummy caramel and vanilla on the nose. Lots of caramel and vanilla through the body. Malt and vanilla on the finish. Held up well. Delicious.

Bottle, thanks ElJefe! Very dark brown, tan head. Nose is caramel, smoky, some cola, sweet rich malt. Flavor is caramel, honey, rich malt. Long sweet caramel finish.

Thanks to El Jefe for sharing this bottle. Dark ruby brown color with a tan head. Maple and brown sugar aroma with just a faint hint of smoky malt. Sweet chocolaty malts, dark fruits and toffee. Very rich with just the smallest hints of smoke. This has held up very well over the past few years.

bottle courtesy of El Jefe, shared with El Jefe, Jacob & Rudolf. Darker cola colored pour. Ligt malt character in the aroma. Notes of licorice, rasiny dried fruitiness, little scotch ale characteristics like smoke or peat. Still pretty tasty

One of the very last Heavyweight 750s from my cellar. :(
Pours brown with a thin tan head. Smells spicy and sweet with some smokiness and some oxidation creeping in. Tastes of cardboard, cobwebs, spicy and sweet. Drink up if you have any left.