Heavyweight Cinderbock Lager

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

An unclear red beer with a small disappearing orange head. The aroma is of smoke, wood, peat, and rope - a great aroma. The flavor is very dry and yet sweet with notes of smoke, rope, peat, and hints of lemon. The alcohol runs over the tongue.

Date: 04/10/2004
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade

opaque rusty orange, big frothy head (may have poured too fast), light sweet smoke aroma, nice sweet malt flavor, well balanced smoke character leading to a pleasant bitter finish
-------- /> Date: 07/28/2006
Mode: bottle

creamy body, lots of great smoke flavor, light bitterness, good balance, not much complexity

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **+/4

Amber w/ slight haze. Fresh Vienna (actually it's actually Munich but I guess he went easy on it) malt & beech smoke aroma. Drips with smoke, some woody notes...caramel & vienna malts (which I suppose put together does sort of equal Munich - I should have put that together). Dry finish. Moderately sweet middle (hops add earthy context but little bitterness). Hints of alcohol in the finish.

99.9% off-white foam on the pour, but eventually it recedes enough to yield a clear golden-orange body. Aroma is mild sweet, orange, medium smoke. At first, taste is medium sweet, orange, very mild smoke at the finish. As it warms, smoke becomes much more pronounced, and caramel also appears. Medium body that hides the alcohol well.

When I poped the cap, it was a minor gusher, Poured a medium and hazy amber color with a large (4.5 finger), frothy off white head. Aromas of smoke, light fruits and some citrus. Tastes of fruits, smoke, spices and caramel. Very fizzy body.

Poured a rich caramel head, sounds like fizzies, head reduced fairly quickly to almost zero. Color is a nice hazy amber. Aroma is OK, I still haven’t gotten the hang of identifying a lot of specifics. Taste is smokey/malty with a mild to low carbonation. Good beer, interesting, just not my style.

Cloudy orange. Huge head formation makes pouring hard. Gigantic sized off-white head, all the bubbles are perfectly shaped and identical. Gentle malt aroma, smoky, woody, soapy. Juicy peach and orange flavors fit a well defined candyish? wood character. 7% you’ve got to be kidding.. This could easily be from Bamberg. Great balance. Medium body, perhaps a bit too effervescent. Quite dry in the finish, lightly bitter in a mineralic kind of way that seems to be closing to something metallic when cold. Let it warm to take advantage of a broader aromas range.

Hazy, deep, dark golden lager with a small, fizzy, off-white head. The aroma is of smoke, peat, beef jerky and butterscotch. Smells like a mild rauchbier. Well-balanced flavor with lots of smoked malt, a touch of honey and bitter, citrusy hops. Full-bodied with an oily mouthfeel and lively carbonation. Lengthy, smoky, earthy, woodsy finish. I really like this beer!