Heavyweight Golden Idol

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

Pure gold. Ornate, fully sustained blanket of pristine white foam. Thick lace. Vibrantly airy, estery nose of white pepper, lavender, and honeydew melon. Milder, but pungent, scents of brett-induced putty, dried herbs, and must. Fluffy and expansive, with a seltzer edge of activeness. Early medicinal tang of brett immediately tightens its grip. Flawlessly attenuated. Redefines the term “balance,” as understated doughy malt sweetness gels with brilliantly placed unripe melon acidity. Harsh medicinal-accented stone and wet leather dryness enhance its highly satiating nature and firm up the body’s softness. Slick melon acidity lends more elegance along the way, as a lightly toasty husk base continually highlights the mustiness. Finishes moistly full with a bright dousing of lavender over a well-proportioned integration of floral hops, medicinal brett, and toasted hay. This is right up there with the legends. Not only does the yeast show remarkable composure, but it’s incredibly clean, aromatic, and luxurious all-around. If I died today, I’d die happily.

Courtesy of Wohlfs. Pours murky light brown, apple cider like. Nice off-white head. Aroma has a big bubble gum presence, with some yeasty/doughy banana bread. Very carbonated. Flavor has lots of chewy banana and bubble gum, with some residuel sugar. Very nice overall.

NJ, Pocono, Philly YEHa!’05. Thanks to willblake. Bright amber body with a uniform, sudsy grayish head. Very bretty horse blanket aroma with mild organic honey tones and an element of orange peels. Subtle, well-integrated wild yeast flavors with hay and orange qualities, low acidity, nice dryness, and moderate bitterness. I like the wild and mature layered aspects to this.

Draft at the Blind Tiger in NYC. Very good Belgian style beer. Killer yeast taste all the way through.

Opened a bottle today of this golden treasure. The brett has come through significantly after aging it for a year+. Poured cloudy and a shade under amber. Quite a bunch of foam. Aromas of funky brett with slight citrus and hints of spice. Less sweet, more dry than I remember it, guess the effect of aging. Exceptional, most OTOPs are!

Thanks goes to wohlfs for sharing this at the kuhnhenns gathering on 6/10. from the bottle, poured a brown to amber with a nice off white head and some good lacing. aroma, cotton candy, yeast, bubble gum. flavor, sweet and sour, banana, yeast, floral. a very good beer

Bottle. Hazy opaque, light amber colore. Everlasting white head which leaves great lacing behind. Medium bodied and nicely carbonated. Residual sweetness, breadiness abound in flavor. Damn nicely done, Kudos to the Heavyweight brewery!!!!

Hazy golden in color with a large white head. Bready,yeasty aroma. Spicy and fruity flavor.