Weyerbacher Old Heathen

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Snifter

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Uploading old ratings that were missing comments. Didn't get the complexity that was advertised. Very boozy and roasty. Not terrible but not impressive either. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle->snifter. Pours black with faint tan head. Aroma: dark fruit, roasted malt, hint of chocolate. Taste: roasted malt, bitter cocoa. Touch thin, and too much carbonation. Just ok.

Reviewed 2/28/13. 12 oz bottle poured into a Duvel tulip. A: Pours a nicely dark brown-to-borderline pitch black color. The head is a three finger khaki shade. While the retention is good, it doesn’t leave much lacing on the glass. S: This beer offers up a mix of sweetness (chocolate, molasses, brown sugar, dark fruits) and savoriness (soy, faint oxidation, maybe even a musty presence?) to pervades my nose. After a bit, its roasty character will pop up like weeds. Nice complexity to be found here, even if not every note works perfectly. T: If the aroma dictated a slightly sweet, chocolaty stout, then the flavor profile dictates a roasty, licorice-forward one. Licorice opens up the palate before it fades into a faintly roasted coffee expression in the midtaste/finish. A distant aftertaste of char and umami qualities alongside an appearance of chocolate, smoke, and prunes after many sips give it an overall depth that is very good, but not elite. I’m not a huge fan of how this one finishes in general, but everything up to that point is rock solid. M: I’d say it’s a bit too thin and devoid of creaminess on the onset. The texture will eventually froth up giving a good counteraction to the roasted malts. This one really needs a drier finish to allow the savory/roasted qualities to shine through more vividly. O: Likable, but at the same time, a bit aimless and meandering in its complexity. It comes across undecided whether it wants to be big, roasty, and dry or sweet, fruity, and chocolaty, and ergo doesn’t really do either facet fabulously. This is a good off-the-shelf RIS that has the misfortune of competing with MANY great ones (such as Old Rasputin).

Bouteille 12oz, courtoisie de Hogtownharry ou Blankboy. De couleur noire et opaque. Nez malté de chocolat noir et au lait (notes lactiques), de malt rôti (notes brûlées et fumées), légèrement fruité (figues, raisins aux notes vineuses, notes de cerises noires), léger de réglisse noire et avec des notes de café et de houblon herbeux. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture moyennement crémeuse. Goût légèrement fruité (cerises noires, léger de raisins, notes de cassis et de prunes) avec un goût de chocolat au lait (légèrement lactique) ainsi que des notes de réglisse noire et de vanille lors de l’entrée en bouche suivi d’un goût de malt rôti (faibles notes brûlées), moyen de chocolat noir et avec des notes de fumées (présente en arrière-goût jusqu’en fin de gorgée) auquel se rajoute progressivement un goût de houblon herbeux avec des notes d’alcool doux réchauffant et de café. Post-goût long et un peu sec, moyennement amer de rôti, moyen de chocolat noir, moyen-léger de houblon herbeux avec des notes d’alcool doux et de café.

2002 bottle rare beers bitch. Nose of dark roast dark bitter chocolate cardboard notes. Pours black thin tan head. Flavors of cardboard dark roast dark choclate and aged rare. Good. Rare.

Pitch black pour with a small amount of mocha head. Smells of brown sugar, caramel, booze, vanilla, nutty, oak. Taste is a little underwhelming, some bakers chocolate, chalky like sweet, dusty, ashy, coffee ground, with a small amount of hop finish. Overall decent, needs some more sweet to balance out the harsher flavors. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

typical for the style-dark, roasty, dry, a bit of rye and black pepper, a bit of peat. lots of complexity. pretty good.

tap: dark pour. Nose is caramel and raisins and plums. Body is a bit roasty, sweet malts. Some banana and nuts. Touch of smoke and oak finishes lightly bitter with a nice earth tone.

Pours an opaque black with a big brown sugar colored head with decent lacing. Aroma that is not very complex with chocolate and fruit. Also with a hint of tartness. Taste is of light chocolate at first followed by a surprising tart fruit skin flavor. Mid palate is dark roast, some coffee and a charred or smoke flavor, finishing with a bit of bitterness. Full mouthfeel with medium body and medium carbonation. Interesting imperial stout that is hindered by its tartness. Might be better if aged. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

2013 bottle to a tulip glass. Pours black, dark brown with a brown fizzy head. Aroma chocolate, dark fruits with dominate cherry, some coffee. Taste follows smell with a roasty malt. Medium mouthfeel with a bit of carbonation sting. Solid stout but not great. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone