Heavyweight Ch-Chuck

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

Thanks to hopdog for this sample. Pours reddish brown with no head and no carbonation. Smells of cherries and some of the nice qualities expected in a sour, but that’s where it ends. Tastes nutty like a standard brown ale with some minor cherry notes. Very watery and very flat. None of the nice sour notes to be expected from this type of beer. Disappointing brew.

Dark amber colour. Very hazy. Slight oaky, cherryish, rodenbachy aroma. Very light body and restrained flavour. Hints of cherry. Not much backing the oak and cherry up (malt and mouthfeel I’m looking for) and even the most up-front flavours lack conviction. Oh well, you don’t always succeed every time you experiment.

Bottled. Hazy reddish brown. Wonderful lactic acidity in the nose with vague notes of sour cherries. Light, rounded malt profile. There’s perfumy notes as well as rosehip. Unfortunately the promising aroma doesn’t really carry over into the flavour and it all fizzes out a bit quick. But what an aroma...

Medium sized light brown head of fine bubbles. Good carbonation. Tart sour (bret) aroma with cherries, grapes and a hint of licorice. Color is a Dark reddish brown. Nice color. Sour, very dry, tart palate. Lots of grapes and cherries. Almost wine like. Definite oak presence but the sourness is amazingly short lived. Disappears after he swallow. Bit chalky with more fruit and a decent amout of malty to offset the tartness. Finish is pretty clean and dry. Slight puckering. Not really my style but pretty decent.

750 mL bottle sent by Eyedrinkale - seriously, where does this guy get all these brews?? a medium-tart aroma of brett and acid and nutty malt floats over the murky dark brown liquid. very oaky wooden flavor throughout the body, with less sourness than i really expected - not nearly as evaporatively dry as i figured a flemish sour would be - perhaps it needed more time in the wood with the brett? relatively sweet finish...are you sure this wasn’t a brown ale gone wrong, passed off as a flemish sour? not bad in any way, just interesting. thanks mike!

(Bottle) Purchased at Beers of the World in Rochester, NY, and mis-labelled as Heavyweight Sticken Jab. Pours a medium, tan head with a reddish-copper body. Nose of sour cherries - no possible way that this was the Altbier. The malt was balanced and the cherries were only slightly sour - it was a tad sweet - so very unlike the Belgian imports. Though interesting and good.

This Flemish sour pours a medium orange gold from a 750ml bottle. Small sized to no head. Aroma is barnyard and cherries. A medium bodied ale. Malts are caramel and sweet, lots of barnyard, bretts and fruit. Kind of tart, musty, oaky and barnyardy. Cherries are semi sweet. A little weak in the finish, but a very interesting beer. Would like to see how this one ages. Mouthfeel is slightly sweet. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet. Thanks again to Chris for sharing.

Very interesting appearnace reddish brown color with a slightly sour aroma mixed with some fruit. The taste isn’t the abrasive sour taste some other beers of this style have had. Taste is very smooth with a nice backbone of cherries and some oak with some sour notes and a little yeast here or there. I thought this was a pretty decent brew