Heavyweight Cinderbock Lager

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

Pours a cloudy, hazy orange with lots of sediment. Great smokey aroma is very pleasant but not overwhelming. Flavor is smokey and sweet with some honey, brown sugar and lots of smoke... kinda like a honey baked ham. Fantastic (just like almost every other Heavyweight beer I’ve had)!

Bottle from Cornboy; Nose of smoke, almost like a ham hock, and some caramel, hazy copper with a small beige head; sweet caramel glazed ham flavor, a lot different than the other smokeds I’ve had.

12 oz bottle thanks to JHop. Didn’t reaize this was smoked unitl I smelled it. I guess I just wasn’t thinking about it, cuz it all makes sense now. Lots of smoke aroma and more in the flavor. Still sweet like a bock. NIce malty flavor under the smoke. I liked this beer.

Straight amber body with a moderate head and verticle carbonation bubbles. Smells spicy and acidic with campfire overtone. Damp sweet forest wood and aged cheese tastes sustain a deep and strong grip on the palate.

Bottle thanks to Pineypower! Poured a hazy, medium orangish-amber with a short cap of off-white head. Nose was heavily smoky with tobacco, sticky-sweet caramel, and dried floral hoppage. Smoked beechwood, toffee, dried fruit, and caramel in the flavor... soft on the palate with some dry bitterness and alcohol at the edges. Smoky-sweet finish. Glad to have tried this one!

Resplendent papaya orange, topped of a dense off-white mousse that collapses rapidly. The nose is rich and juicy, smoked ham appears willingly but does not distract from the prominent fruity combination of apricot, peach and mango. Sweet honey and black pepper add to the complex and unique aroma; simply a clever and enjoyable fusion of fruit and smoked malts. Burnt bacon and ham rise to a greater emphasis in the flavor, supported by pineapple and caramel. Abundant and mellifluous, coating the palate in an effusive blend of dry coffee, ham and pepper, Cinderbock is a straightforward but hearty and delicious beer. I didn’t have any expectations of the style or brewer, but I must say I was rather blown away - shame it is likely the first and last taste of Heavyweight I will have.

10/15/06. Poured out of 12 oz. bottle, obtained in a trade with Jetsbeer on BeerAdvocate 7/18/06. Rated blind. Hazy orange-caramel color, poured with a small and mostly diminishing cream-colored head that sits with a tight film surrounded by a pebbly rim. Lacing and sub-surface lacing are both pretty poor, hardly sticking at all no matter the temperature or how much head is stirred up out of solution. Still, the color and the thin tuft of head is alluring. Call it "a high 2." Aroma is brightly yeasty at first, spiced and spicy enough to remind me of a Unibroue pseudo-Belgian, then swiftly opens up to a cleanly tangy, smokey, and woody (cedar chips) medley. Fairly faint overall, and I find an interesting play with the smokiness fading in and out with the yeastiness. Not very malt-forward. Flavor is softly and delicately woody, smokey, not really meaty at all, and seeming German in its malt-hop interplay (lightly peppery and dry hop profile with no piney and little-to-no vegetal notes, slightly toasty and caramelly but not very sweet malt character). Sublimely creamy and smooth integration of the carbonation makes it nicely drinkable, matching the slight tang and dryness of the smokey wood character. Finish sucks the moisture out of your mouth and leaves a lovely toasty, smokey trail. Some baked appley fruit notes in there too. Medium-thin body and almost no alcohol apparency. Extremely solid but somehow lacking that extra oomph, most notably in the nose, to really impress.

Bottle. Hazy amber/orange with a mostly lasting off-white head. Didn’t realize this was a smoked (which I’m not really a fan of...should check labels more carefully) until I got that first whiff. Smelled of canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. Basically smoky, with some malt, grass and vegetable notes underneath. Flavor of smoky malts, like BBQ chips, kind of oaky or cedary, with some dried fruit flavors on the finish. Slightly fizzy but mostly smooth medium bodied palate. I really would like to like this more, but I just can’t due to my preferences. However, I can imagine fans of the smoked style would be totally into this one.