Heavyweight Lunacy

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

Bottle shared by Crosling. Poured a clear golden color with a moderate white head. Aroma of yeast and fruity esters (light citrus and apple). Flavor was the same, with a sweet yeasty entry with fruity flavors including light citrus, apple, and pear, and ends sort of sour. Crisp on the palate. Not a bad beer, but just not too amazing. Thanks for sharing Crosling.

Cracking the cap unleashes a fountain of foam, and once poured the beer is thick in consistency and dark dandelion yellow in color. The copious froth dissipates at a furious speed, while bubbles scatter restively across the surface. Mulled apple cider dominates the aroma; very sweet, tart, and warm. Golden fruits baked with almond butter, honey, pineapple and cinnamon. Tastes bold with sweetness with moderate spiciness and lingering tartness; flavors of old banana, adhesive, sour yeasts, and pears. Underneath, a warm, caramel and honey syrup of generous, full pale malts. Palate is medium bodied with sharp effervescence, though the texture is quite soft and the body round. Finishes with dried out white wine sweetness and dallying sugars. Comes on a bit strong in general. Age has treated it evenly; the golden malts and thick yeasts still finding plenty of interesting avenues of interaction. Thanks Dean!

June 2006 - Beer poured with a tripelesque color, next to no head, but a slew of small yeasties floating around.. Very faint aroma cold, but aroma consistant with flavor emerged as it warmed. Flavor was sweet, a lot of honey. A rich spiceyness with something that I can’t put my finger on (and didn’t see mentioned in other reviews) present, along with a definite yeastiness. A tad or tartness and even sourness as it warmed. A lot going on in this one. A nice effort!

Had the pleasure of sampling this at the 1/27/2008 Pittsburgh ratebeer.com gathering and festival upstairs, Sharp Edge Creekhouse. It will be a long time, if ever I am invited again and I see a spread of bottles like I did there - ever again. I am not good enough for the beers that were that we sampled! For example, how about this beer, from the manager himself, mtoast. Smells a little sweet and fruity, somewhat like wine at times. Slightly hazy pale yellow with decent lacing. Barely any carbonation. Fairly strong with alky but it seem to have less than the 7.7% listed here. Overall rather strong, shows confidence in it’s personality. After a while this stuff really gets to the back of the throat, in a good way of course.

Poured a murky golden color with a small head. Aroma is a bit spicey with some citrus, clove, some mild funkyness and very earthy hop essence. Taste is somewhat bitter and has a very odd spice flavor. Flavors of dirt, cardomom, thyme, and some cooked green vegetables. Some belgian candi sugar aids in the sweetness and is mellowed form the citrus, wood, bread and yeast. Definitely very different. A vit strange but I liked it.

Bottle sampled at the Ratebeer meet-up 01.27.08 at the Sharp Edge Creekhouse. Beer courtesy of mtoast.

Opaque orange gold with floaters and white head. Aroma is caramel, graham cracker, port. Flavor is apricot, malt, cinnamon, nutmeg, grass. I can taste the alcohol in this one.

From a bottle. Pours a golden hue. Aromas of sweet fruits and yeast. Flavor is sweet with some spice to it. Notes of honey and caramel. I have no idea how old this bottle is so age may have negatively effected this brew.

Draft. Hazy yellow with aroma of yeast and bananas. Sweet yeasty flavor with nice banana notes. Slick mouthful with dry finish. Medium bodied.