Heavyweight Barrel Aged Old Salty

Formerly brewed at Heavyweight Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Ocean Township, New Jersey USA

This beer dangerously flirts with perfection. Pours a dark murky brown color with small mostly white head that leaves pretty quick. Nose filled with a smooth delicous vanilla, bourbon notes, caramel, some cherry even, and oak. Flavor wise, man I may go to a 10. The vanilla mixes sowell with the bourbon and cherry and the tiny hints of alcohol are truly pleasent.

From bottle, no 19 at Papsoes blindtasting. Pours hazy brown to light orange and with a fully diminshed white head. Berry fruity aroma into a whiskey like aroma. Flavour is quite sweet and dried fruity. Almost syrup like feel and flavour. Ends with a lingering sweet fruity tone. Nice.

Draught at Blind Tiger. 2005 vintage keg. Poured murky dark amber/brown. A minimal head is created when the glass is swirled. Aromas of caramelized sugar and bourbony components--vanilla, charred wood, with some chocolate and even a bit of toasted coconut. Sweet toffee malts infused with the essence of the smoky barrel wood and remaining bourbon notes infused therein. Earthy, slightly bacony finish. Everything seems to have aged and mellowed into a pure basic confluence of sweet malt and bourbon cask extracts. Any hoppiness and harsh booziness seem to have pretty much disappated. Pretty nice overall, even though I’ve never really gotten into the whole BA thing.

Bottled. An unclear amber beer with an orange-tan head. The aroma is sweet with notes of wood and vanilla with an underlying acidity. The flavor is sweet wooy with notes of prunes, over ripe fruit, vanilla, and some hops, leading to a dry finish with some acidity showing up. The alcohol burns slightly in the throat. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

#19 [Blind tasting session @ Papsoe 30-11-2007] Huge beige thick and creamy head that mostly lasted. Cloudy dark brown color. Good display of lacework. Spicy red wine, grain, fruit, dried fruit. Over the palate roasted malt, moderated vanilla and some warming alcoholic feel with a hint of sour notes. Full bodied with an average carbonation and somewhat thick texture and light alcoholic texture. Moderated sweet flavor with light acidic. Dried fruity sweet and lingering finish.

Bottle. A dark brown beer with a huge beige head. The aroma is of light dusty caramel malt, vanilla, wood and dark fruits. The taste is sweet caramel malt, alcohol, vanilla, wood and dark fruits. Medium to full body with a light sweet, dry alcoholic finish.

Bottle. Hazy orange red coloured with an off white head. Fruity aroma of wood and vanilla with notes of dried fruits. Sweet flavour of fruits, spices, wood and vanilla with notes of bourbon, dried fruits and alcohol. Warming alcoholic finish.

2007-11-30, Papsø’s Blind Tasting
Cloudy dark amber-red color. Strong oaky aroma, mellow, with sweet tobacco. Sweet brew, with an interesting woody and vanilla flavor, full malty, with a light sourness that I have to understand if it’s nice or disturbing. Inprecise, but overall, deeply pleasant for me.