Heavyweight Dougs Colonial Ale

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

on tap at the final heavyweight open house. cloudy copper color, light tan foamy head. aroma like wet cigarette butts, but in a good way if you can imagine. mouthfeel is a little watery. flavor is roasted caramel malts and burnt matches. smoky dry malt finish.

Draft at DRE event. Dark copper pour with minimal head. Aroma of bready rye malt, cacao, some caramel. The flavor was caramel malty, but not swet, with notes of tannins and ESB bitter hints. As it warms, it gets rye breadier.

Foamed out of the bottle. Poured a clear amber-brown color with a large off-white head. The aroma had notes of chocolate, peanuts, cookies/biscuits, and tobacco. It smells like the cereal sugar smacks. I wasn’t sure what the style was suposed to be but the aroma had some complexity. The flavor was of chocolate and malt. Mildly sweet. The mouthfeel was way too fizzy with a bitter dry finish. Also some tartness on the finish.

Pour dark brown with a thin tan head...smell is bready malt and slightly diacetyl...taste is sweet and malty with that lingering butterscotch flavor...

BCTC 06- prefest. Bottle. This is more of a cross of a porter and brown ale. Pours a deep brown, slight haze and a nice beige head but fades a bit. Huge thick roasty caramel and chocolate aroma hits hard at first then subsides and blends with a bit of butterscotch - which works very well in this beer and is not overpowering at all. Roasted nuts, toffee, and dark chocolate in the aroma and flavor. Slight fruitiness of raisin in the flavor, more sweet malts, and a decent bitterness in the end for balance. This is a really full bodied and full flavored Brown ale, that is realy too good to be considered a brown ale. Unique for sure. Well Made- thanks Doug!

Thin sudsy head. Light carbonation. Big roasty aroma. Lots of roasted grains and nuts. Quite yummy. A little weak coffee in there also. Color is a dark mahagony brown. More roasted grains and coffee in the flavor. Sometimes when there is a lot of roastyness in a brew there can be a harsh bitterness which accompanies it. Not so with this brew. Quite strong but not overwhelming. Finish is roasty and dry. Quite the good brown ale.

Let the Red Coats come and try to take this beer from us. We will fight for our beerdependence wholeheartedly whilst clutching a Doug’s Colonial Ale. Tis the over-the-top black coffee aroma and flavor that sets this brew apart from lesser brown ales. Tis the nutty rounded flavor that ends so dry and compelling that makes us take up arms against those who would bind us to weak watery suds. And, alas, the burnished cloudy bronze color topped so majestically with its ample foamy brown head.

On tap at HDG. Brown with varying head retention throughout the keg. Aroma is caramel and toffe. Taste has a lot of coffee in it as well as the flavors already mentioned. Sort of on the sweet side but really nice. And now it’s gone, ugghh.