Heavyweight Biere d´Art

Formerly brewed at Heavyweight Brewing Company
Style: Bière de Garde
Ocean Township, New Jersey USA

Name: Biere D’art
Date: 08/26/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Fest of 26

hazy copper, whispy white head, sweet fruity aroma, nice spicy character, creamy body, nice spicy malt flavor, light bitterness from the spices, good sweet finish
-------- /> Name: Biere D’art
Date: 08/30/2006
Mode: bottle

opaque orange, lasting thin fine off white head, lots of drippy lace, sweet orange in the aroma along with other spices including ginger, well spiced sweet fruity flavor, lots of great fruit flavor like peaches and apricots well balanced by the spicy yeast character

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

From a 750mL Bottle. Pours the color of naval orange skins, slightly hazy, topped with a healthy layer of off-white head. A refreshing aroma of gentle lemon and crisp wheat acidity is backed by a layer of bready malt and complexified by a restrained leather funk. Medium bodied, moderately carbonated mouthfeel. The flavors start out with loads of mild garden herbs and build toward a mid-palate apex of crisp biscuity malt. Intriguing how it starts hoppy and then gets increasingly malty as the palate extends. Toward the end, a mild wheat acidity and lactic, runny cheese rind funkiness builds and then takes over, rounding out the flavor profile nicely. Thanks for sharing, Dillon!

Bottled. Poured a medium sunset orange with a short cap of off-white head and some thicker lacing. Aroma picked up drier bready notes, spicy ligher fruits, and lightly-toasted caramel.. some oxidation is setting in, but enjoyed the mild sherry that it imparted. Flavor had a nice dose of toffee, caramel, and bread at the core.. some lemon tartness and stronger alcohol sugars toward the back-end. Well-carbonated on the palate, but had some sharper alcohol notes that detracted slightly.. all in all felt good. Glad to have tried this!

Bottle, thanks so much to yobdoog! poured a copper color with a good 2 finger taupe colored head with decent retention and average lacing throughout. Aroma of sour molasses and malts. Good carbonation with an understated brown molasses taste along with some roasted malts. Left a clean and warm aftertaste, letting you know the alcohol was there, but not over doing it.

Orange, copper color with an off-white head. Yeasty, caramel, orange, and earthy aroma. Taste is yeasty, vanilla, caramel with some alcohol heat. Nice mouthfeel. Tasty brew. Old rating, just added.

Bottle. Super happy to have gotten a hold of this last fall, supposedly the last one State Line had, though it doesn’t seem to have held up too well. Deep malty aroma, brown sugar and molasses, red fruit. Super heavy carbonation, a murky orange-brown body with a huge, rich beige head. Seemingly has a lot in common with a Bock. Dulled molasses and brown sugar, stale caramel malt and a dry, lightly bitter caramel aftertaste. Touch of toffee. Medium prickly body with a touch of citrus and vaguely Belgian yeast.

Cloudy pale body with a large white head. The aroma is bread, cereal, light cotton candy and golden fruits. The flavor is dough, light yeast, light pepper and candi sugar. Medium body is very soft with moderate carbonation.

cloudy amber color, but ok, as I think this beer is from 2005. nice peppery aroma mixed in with doughy malts. flavor was full of malts and pepper, perfectly balanced. overall really nice beer.