Heavyweight Barrel Aged Old Salty

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

@DLD Aroma has bits of cardboard and sherry, some hops, residual sugar, alcohol, and caramel. Nice! Taste is sweet, slightly bitter (faded hops), some caramel, piny, and floral. Finish is slightly dry alcohol and hop bite, but is actually full and sticky. Very nice. Thanks Walt!

750 ml bottle - 2005 vintage; thanks to riversideak again another Heavyweight heavyweight; hope you traded an arm and a leg for this, my 38th consecutive rating; have to say the old salty labels are one of my favs in a long time; this one certainly trumped the regular version; bourbon faded considerably, but still quite rich and sticky; thanks cartman

Bottle from the generous cellar of JCB. You rule, buddy. Notes on this one are sparse, so let’s see what I remember. This was damn good, I think; better than the Heavyweight Wee Heavy we shared recently. Huge foamy off white head atop a dark amber pour. Prickly palate because of the overcarbonation and some slight oxidation, but nice earthy malty notes. Not overly barrel-tasting. Good fruit notes and caramel. Slight vanilla notes. Quite good.

Bottle graciously sent by a fine gentleman on BA. Boy, this has held up considerably better than some other Heavyweights! A big body with huge carbonation, this beer has the earthy grit and grain that I love from this brewery, combined with the depth of flavor one wants from an English style BW. Barrel is there oh so subtly, merging well with fruity malts and caramel flavors. Slight tartness in there gives it a true caramel apple character. A delight.

Thanks to Jason for sharing this one. Other than some slight oxidation & over carbonation this beer is holding up extremely well. Dark amber pour with a thin tan head. Oak, caramel, and light earthiness on the nose. Caramel apples, vanilla, salt, and bourbon

Thanks JCB for sharing. Pours a hazy dark ruby copper with a one to two finger frothy light yellow head The nose is earthy, caramel, oaky, mild vanilla, some oxidation. The flavor is earthy, vanilla, caramel, malty, peaty, fruity, mild alcohol. Aged well.

3rd time having it last night. It has aged very well and you get a huge amount of malt coming through with a very mellow taste of bourbon which ended up going down very smooth. A little oxidation but every bottle is different so you never know what you will get.

Bottle 2005 Vintage Pours out a hazy brow topped with a small head. WOW what a great aroma. Tons of sweetness, some light wood and pit fruit. Tast was even better. Plenty of the sweetness, Caramel, pit fruit, vanilla, and nice end. Talk about love for Toby. thanks.