Heavyweight Ch-Chuck

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

Bottle. Muddy red brown colour with a beige head. Light acid, sour, wood, berries aroma and taste. Medium body with a dry light sour finish.

Bottle. Hazy orange brown coloured with a beige head. Aroma of wood and horse blanket with acidic notes. Flavour of caramel and wood with acidic notes.

Pours a slightly hazy copper orange with a thin-lacing off-white head. Sweet cherry oak and toasty malty sweetness with a touch of earthy funk in the aroma. Starts pretty dry and tart with some earthy, puckering cherries toward the dry finish. Fairly authentic, but could use some more sweetness.

750ml bottle.
Courtesy of hopdog via trade. Pours a dead, flat hazy dark chestnut/auburn that refused to produce any head even with a ridiculously heavy-handed pour. Aroma suggests a lovely Flemish red sour ale with appropriate hints of cherry, cider, earth and wood. Flavor is a sour acetic kick up front, then smooths out with cherry, wood, dry light toasted grain, and a hint of hop spice but little to no bitterness. The flavor profile is, for all its complexity, frustratingly muted. Contributing to this perception is a watery and hopelessly lifeless palate. The commercial description suggests this turned out to be a Flemish sour quite by accident, and the net result reflects that fact. Definitely on the right track but a weak overall presentation.

Poured reddish brown without much head. Aroma was very nice with sour apple, red wine, vinegar and cherrys. Taste was flat. Perhaps the bottle I had was too old. Watery palate. Not great but pretty good.

Sampled at DL day 2006. Thanks to whoever brought this one. A murky brown body with a white and yellowish head. The aroma was sour apples with caramel and some almonds. Nice and funky. The taste was slightly sour oranges with lemons. There was also bread crust and some pecans. Cool beer.

Pours to a hazy brown body. Beige head. The aroma is nicely sour brown. The flavor is sour bourbon brown flemish ale-ish. The palate is tart, lingering, sticky.

Bottle Pours a hazy brown with a quick light tan head. Very littel spotty lacing. Sour and dry on the nose and on the tounge. I don’t detect the cherry but this was a nice cross between a brown ale and a lambic/sour. Odd, and interesting. Nice dry finish.Thanks to BeerCellar2 for this one.