Heavyweight Old Salty

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

Bottle. Cloudy orange coloured with an off white head. Sweet aroma of malts, caramel, dried fruits and spices. Sweet flavour of malts, caramel and dried fruits.

Cloudy mahogny colour with an off white head. Malty and sweet aroma with a light alcohol and toffee note. Malty, toffee sweet flavor with notes of fruit and wood.

Bottle vintage 2004 thanx to Thomas E. Ruby colour with a small off-white head. Sweet malty, dark fruits aroma and a sweet malty, dark fruits, old dusty taste. Medium body with a dry light alcoholic finish.

Bottle vintage 2004. Thanks to Kramer17801 for the trade!
Big (overcarbonated) head. Red to orange colour. Hazy. Nice aroma of mature cheeze, dark fruit and caramel. Nice full bodied taste of raisins, dades, nuts, caramel. Warming and obvious alcohol content but not OTT. Sweet and salty aftertaste with plenty of licorice. I like.

Poured a dark brown with red highlights that leaves a cloudy eggplant body and an off-white head. The smell is terrific, rum soaked fruit, caramel malt, piney hop aroma with a buttery backdrop. The taste is prune juice, with a honey sweetness that stays spicy on the tongue and highly carbonated. The finish is sweet somewhat fruity to balance a minimal hop effort.

Mid-brown colour, almost no head, caramel, toffee and dates aroma. Very sweet taste, with alcohol, fruit and caramel aromas. Sweet finish with a touch of bittereness with nut, carmel and vanilla aromas. In my 2004 example, the hops had almost completely disappeared when drunk (7th May 2006), except for a strange numbing of the tonge. Not that complex for the strength. A reasonable beer, but no way is this an English-style Barley Wine. It has nothing in common with Bass No. 1 or Whitbread Gold Label. A little like an over-the-top, strong homebrew. I think this was one of Jamie’s (or another of the Burp gang) genrous gift.

2004. Mildly murky dark copper colored liquid. Minimal head, only a few bubbles surface to create a small isle and a ring on the glass. Pleasant, yet somewhat tame aroma. Light fig, caramel and touch of floral hops with a touch of spice. Moderate body with a slightly slick feel. Raspberry and plums start in the front. A baked fruit middle with some cherry and light port. A mild, yet quite noticeable hops flavor with a smoked herb quality. Nearly too dry in the finish. I long for a full malt linger. Just a bit too woody in the finish.

Bottle sampled beer night at my house with Stegosaurus. Pours clear amber with a white head. Aroma of sweet malts, fruit, citrus, and caramel. Flavor is sweet, alcohol, and fruit.