Heavyweight Baltus O.V.S.

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

Brown amber color, with a lingering but thin tan head. Slight haze. Aroma is fruitcake and malt, with some hints of alcohol.

A cool amber garnet color with a thin, off-white head. Slight lacing. The aroma is sweet with notes of ripe grapes, plums, apples, pears, toasted bread, sugar and alcohol. The mouthfeel was somewhat soft and perhaps a bit thin. I began to notice the alcohol more and more as I drank. It almost became too much at time. After the alcohol comes sweet fruit, a bit of chocolate, toasted and wheat malt and very subtle hops. A long, warming finish makes for the end of interesting beer that was not quite as English or German as the bottle let on. Tasty and interesting, another fine Heavyweight from dberger624.

Bottled. Poured from the bottle a dark brown color with a small tan head which quickly dissipated. I detected chocolate, raisins and alcohol in the nose. The taste was a rich chocolate flavor with a slightly hoppy bitterness in the finish. The 8.2% ABV is well hidden in this beer. A very good sipping beer.

Deep malty aroma. Chocolate, red wine, plums, light fruity hops. Raisins & tannic yeasts. Huge foamy fluffy off-white lacing head. Copper brown clear. Med heavy watery body. Alcohol taste, sweet like homemade wine. Plums & raisins. Good level of hops giving some acidity and light bitterness. Finish is mild sweet raisins with light nutty bitter after. Enjoyable.

Murky tea-colored. Nose is cidery and full of pine. Tastes like fall, lots of maple, toffee, and smoke. A bit of lemon. Creamy, nice palate

This "Very Special" ale has a dark, murky brown color with a small, tan head that diminishes. The aroma is malty with hints of caramel, toffee, yeast, and raisins. It has a medium body with moderate carbonation. The flavor is fruity with some sweet malt notes and some yeasty spiciness. The finish is long, sweet, and spicy. This one is very drinkable and quite complex, with lots of malty sweetness and yeasty, hoppy fruitiness interplaying to create a very delicious ale. Wish I had more of this one.

Nice dark and thick, cloudy chestnut brown color with ruby red highlights, I recieved no head with a vigorous pour, puzzling, a small fizzing appeared like a cola and then fizzed away just as fast, leaves limpy fading stringy lace. Smell is faint of sweet malts, somewhat toffeeish and some dark fruityness of plum and banana with a touch dark yeast and of alcohol warmness. Taste is much more complex then what the smell gives, quick dark fruits hinting raisin, plums, and banana enter then fade, rounding into tons of sweetness of toffee and dark caramel malts, lots of malts, but with just the right balance of hop bitterness and dark yeasty hold into the middle right on through to the finish leaving lingering sweetness and warming senses from the 8.2 ABV. Me likey. Feel is pretty full and creamy, getting syrupy close to to the middle where it hits the bittering mildness that finishes a bit lingering in sweet hold and leaves the mouth with a buttery tang. Quite nice. Very good example of the style.

Dark, cloudy brown, smallish head, evidently of the Belgian brown/dark persuasion. Little head, nose fruity, acidic, cherryish. Good body, flavor acidic, again fruity but rather vague and insubstantial, some nice ending chocolaty notes but where's the body? Just sort of fades away. Not bad at all, but certainly not great, I need another sample.