Heavyweight Cinderbock Lager

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

Bottled: Pours a deep rusty orange with a haze and a tan, lacing head. The aroma is very interesting. Salty bacon, chewy munich malts, light esters, wood, peat, leather, nice and earthy. The flavor has a nice smokeyness, yet less so than the hardcore Schlenkerla line-up. Creamy texture with a nice amount of carbonation. Solid German malty body. Gives off a subtle caramel background. The smoke is present but not overwhelming, rather subtle and pleasant. Has a bacon-like flavor with peat, leather, tobacco, and a nice malt accented finish with a hint of alcohol and residual smokeyness. Not as hardcore as some of the original Smoked beers from the homeland Germany, but this is easily the best US Smoked effort! A very enjoyable brew.

Hazy brown body with a small tan head. Sweet malty cand caramel aroma. Sweet malty flavor with a sour background. Everything seemed fine until the sour flavor hits you. Most likely a bad keg that’s since been removed from the tap lineup here. A shame since being retired, it’s unlikely to find it again.

Bottle shared by nolankowal: Hazy amber in color with tan head. Aroma, bacon, smoke, and some malts in the back ground. Flavor, smoky malts, some bacon notes, citrus, some sweetness, the smoke wasn’t as strong on the flavor as it was in the aroma. Pretty solid stuff though.

Orangish amber coloured body with a non-existant head. Aroma of super-smoked malt, toffee and figs - the smoke was by far the strongest scent. Medium-bodied; Strong smoked flavours with alcohol in this one. Figs and even more smoked peat were picked up afterwards. The aftertaste showed strong and potent flavours - alcohol, bittering hops and of course, smoke. Overall, an interesting smoked beer - definitely good to try - get it if you can still find it! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Chevy Chase Wine & Liquors in Washington D.C. a year or so ago, on 10-March-2007.

Hazy amber pour, rich in appearance. Well retained light orange head. Lacing is full-on and thick. Truly an odd but interesting looking beer. Moderate smoke in the aroma is neatly encompassed by tropical fruit notes, heavy malts, peat, velvety woodiness and trace amounts of candies. Flavor is just as smoky but less confrontational. More peated malts and fruits than in aroma, definitely a powerhouse flavor. Caramel is lingering in a mildly dry and alcoholic finish. Palate is medium bodied, warming, quite smooth and easy to quaff away at. An interesting take on rauchbier, and a tasty one at that. Another beer that will be missed from Ocean Township.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a cloudy orange with a moderate, off-white head that lasted through the entire glass. The aroma is strong with a combination of pleasant and unpleasant smells. There is an earthy, yeasty aroma that I liked. Also some very light smokiness, which I also liked. There is also a strong aroma of over-ripened fruit which I did not care for. I’d have to say the same thing about the flavor; there are aspects I liked and others I did not. Malt and some light smokiness, whch I liked. There was also a flavor that reminded me of matzoh, which I also liked. This beer also had an excessive sweetness that reminded me of rotting fruit and a metallic aftertaste that I did not care for at all. I’m not sure how much of this is due to the age of the bottle, as I never had this beer fresh. I have three bottles left and I will rerate if I get a better example.

3rd beer of my "Stay @ Home b/c of Snow Rating-Extravaganza." Bottle has been sitting around for a while, not sure how long though. Pours with a medium but quickly dissipating head. Color is a beautiful orange, a very thick looking beer but lots of clarity. Aroma is strong with ripe malty sweet fruits thats accented with smoke. Taste is similarly sweet but the smoke is faint. Altogether it just adds up to an overall melting sweetness. Its not smoke heavy but the smoke is definitely present, in the aroma at least. When I have had this beer earlier it was too bland on the other aspects and similar on the smoke . It seems time has brought out the flavors from the malt. Leaves a sweet bookended faint smoked aftertaste. Low on bitterness, slight lowered carbonation, and a slightly heavy body.

Hazy amber/orange pour with medium whitish head. Smokey malt aroma with some citrus undertones. Smoked meat (bacon primarily) flavor. Heavy metallic flavor as the beer barely touches my tongue, followed by rauchbier smokiness, leading to an odd lager like finish. Can’t say I like it.