Heavyweight Saison de la Soeur Black

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

Very dark brown pour. Slowly and mostly diminishing light tan head. Fat rings of lacing left behind. Carbonation is sporadically placed and very fizzy, looks good. Chocolate malt and yeasty overtones surround a wave of brettanomyces and lactobacillus. Vanilla extract and spices play along with subdued fruits. Definitely a raging brett infection, but it works here. Flavor is at once yeasty, spicy, more of the same essentially. Grainy chocolate and wafer layers sweep forward with every sip. Mouthfeel is pretty full, complex. Finishes chocolatey and with a spicy semblance of balance. Pretty good saison, funky as can be, American style.

Courtesy SoLan. Pours a very dark brown, with a very thick, stable tan head. Smells of slight tannins and lemons are present at the beginning. The taste is blended nicely with some sweet sourness, a touch of clove, and some light chocolate as well that keeps the acidity under control. Also, get a dark berry flavor in there as well. Pretty good.

Pours a deep brownish/black with ruby red highlights and a large foamy tan head that left tons of spotty lacing. As with a bunch of the Heavyweight beers this was a major gusher that just seemed to keep foaming out of the bottle for 10-15 minutes. Aroma of dark fruits, spicy and peppery, chocolate, cocoa, green apples, some citrus and tropical fruits along with a candy sweetness and Belgian yeast. Flavor of roast malts, hints of coffee and chocolate, some cocoa yet with that spicy saison quality. Also getting some citrus and hop flavor. Light sourness and more green apple. Really enjoyed the mix of flavors and aroma on this one. A great balance of roastiness along with fruits and Saison spiciness.

I don’t know if it is fair that I rate this one now after the experience I’ve had last night however I have another bottle if feeligns change-bottle- exploded over the top a bit- huge tan head pours dark brownish black, smells exactly like the humous I was throwing up 4 days ago. I can’t really get passed that smell, and it reminds me so much of it I find it difficult to drink this beer. It smells sour, yeasty, sour apples, tastes sour apples with almost a sandpapery mouthfeel. ends vanilla and some other spices. Gave me really really bad heartburn since my stomach has been not what it was after the whole vomit sesh last monday. I’m going to re-rate this one in like a month or two and see if my body is a bit more accomodating to this beer. RERATE------& shared with tom. aged somewhere around three years, maybe two, pours black with a large massive saison sized beige head. strange bubble formation. very beautiful, nose is barnyard, cut grass, roasted malt coffee goodness. quite cakey as well. sour apple. tastes coffee chocolate some tartness, maybe black cherry. mouthfeel is very bubbly likened to a tightknit champagne. much better than i remember.

25 oz bottle, via BA BeerBeing. Pours a very dark brown, not black at all really (I’ve been misled), under a very frothy, foamy, and dense light brown head that covered the glass in lacing. Aroma is quite odd. Some of the usual Saison character like hay, yeast, and wheaty earthiness, but then there’s some roast, coffee, burnt malt, licorice, and some lactose sourness. What the hell’s going on here? The flavor is just as weird. Kind of a slightly tangy weizenbock mixed with an American Porter and a Lacto Stout. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a slick, almost oily, texture. The carbonation is lively and efforvescent. What the hell did I just drink? This was odd even by Heavyweight standards. I know I’ve thought that before about them, but this was crazy. Certainly the oddest of the three OTOP Saisons I’ve had.

Bottle thanks to hopdog! Pours black with foamy tan head. Aroma of currants, figs, chocolate and some black pepper. Flavor similar to aroma with some extra roasty, earthy malt and a funky sour finish. Light, bubbly mouthfeel. Very tastey... now I need to get my hands on Black Ghost and SPF8.

750 ml bottle. Dark black beer with a thick pillowy dark brown head that sticks around forever, leaving thick lace all down the sides of my chalice. Light milk chocolate aroma, earthy spiciness and some lingering, prickly mint. Lactic tartness on the nose as well. Creamy consistency with a full mouthfeel but a surprisingly light body. Tart and lactic with soft earthy yeastiness on the back. Lightly dusty with soft black pepper and chocolate on the back. Soft mango/tropical fruitiness as the temperature comes up. Completely different from anything else I’ve ever had before.

I did have this at the Captain Lawrence gathering on Saturday but I busted out a bottle today as well. Just to ruin the surprise for anyone reading, this is freaking awesome right now. Must have got a good cap on this (WillBlake had me scared), cause when I popped this a big rush of noise came out. Poured with a huge tan head that just wouldnt dissipate. Been in this glass for almost 30 minutes and the complete surface is still covered with a tan foam. An almost black but just very dark brown body. Aroma is milky, with Belgian candi sweetness, and an unspecified airy, freshness, I am thinking like a smell of an ocean breeze (without the salt). Just effervescent. Taste starts sweet and ends with a sour ting. The palate is amazing though, barely feel a beer, it just dissipates in your mouth. Just feel a rush of bubbles disappear into nothingness almost as soon as it touches my cheeks. Leaving a light sweet and soury aftertaste. Now, I know the beer I tried on Saturday was nowhere near this good, so who the hell knows what going on but this is just freaking amazing.