Ch-Chuck
Heavyweight Brewing Company in Ocean Township, New Jersey, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.96
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jtclockwork (20063) reviewed Ch-Chuck from Heavyweight Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Paul and Ryan’s 5000th rating tasting. Pours dark brown. Nose of tart cherry, apple, fruit and cinnamon. Taste of tart cherry, apple skin and spices.
deyholla (22839) reviewed Ch-Chuck from Heavyweight Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared by someone at Paul and Ryan’s 5000th celebration, thanks! Poured a clear reddish amber with a white head that dissipated to the edges. Aroma was full of sour cherries with a good amount of acid and a hint of funk. Flavor began with sour cherries but became a bit syrupy. The acid came out in the finish with a bit of backing funk.
Buckeyeboy (18931) reviewed Ch-Chuck from Heavyweight Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Pulled out by our good friend Footbalm. U da man. Pours out a hazy amber topped with a small tan head. Aroma of sour cherries and wood. Tast was nice with multiple fruits and a nice light tartness. (is that a word) Along with more of the wood.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
I think slob may have sent me this many moons ago. Thanks so much to whoever should get the credit. Look through my trade history, I’m sure it’s there. Everyone here is great BTW! This bottle was taped with electrical tape on the cap and refrigerated since the day I got it. Muted sour apple aroma. Slightly tart flavor, very smooth. I’d drink another!
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed Ch-Chuck from Heavyweight Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. A slightly hazy deep red beer with a thin orange head. The aroma is very special with a mixture of cinnamon, violet, cloves, berries, and alcohol. The flavor is slightly acidic with strong notes of berries and spices as well as lighter notes of alcohol, wood, and metal. The acidity is very bret like.
CloakedDagger (37568) reviewed Ch-Chuck from Heavyweight Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
(Bottle 75 cl) Pours a hazy, reddish brown with a yellowish head. Fantastic aroma of oak and vanilla. Medium-bodied with lightly sour accents and an edge of oak. Quite interesting. 240706
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle Pours a hazy brown with a quick light tan head. Very littel spotty lacing. Sour and dry on the nose and on the tounge. I don’t detect the cherry but this was a nice cross between a brown ale and a lambic/sour. Odd, and interesting. Nice dry finish.Thanks to BeerCellar2 for this one.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Ch-Chuck from Heavyweight Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Dark amber colour. Very hazy. Slight oaky, cherryish, rodenbachy aroma. Very light body and restrained flavour. Hints of cherry. Not much backing the oak and cherry up (malt and mouthfeel I’m looking for) and even the most up-front flavours lack conviction. Oh well, you don’t always succeed every time you experiment.
omhper (45152) reviewed Ch-Chuck from Heavyweight Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. Hazy reddish brown. Wonderful lactic acidity in the nose with vague notes of sour cherries. Light, rounded malt profile. There’s perfumy notes as well as rosehip. Unfortunately the promising aroma doesn’t really carry over into the flavour and it all fizzes out a bit quick. But what an aroma...
notalush (7362) reviewed Ch-Chuck from Heavyweight Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
For a while, I viewed Heavywieght as an above-average brewery with some solid offerings. However, after trying many of their OTOP beers (especially the saisons), I now place them as one of the top five most innovative brewers in the country, possibly the world. This beer just solidifies that opinion - for a long time, I didn’t even know what "brett" was, let alone know how to identify the flavors it produced - now that I know, I must say that the brett characteristics are really quite prominent, yet not overstated in this beer - the sour cherry flavors aren’t quite mouth-puckering enough to equate this with a true "sour ale," but it does lend a lambic-like quality - oak and vinous notes weave in and out - musty and very earthy - sourness drops out in the finish, leaving a touch of chocolate and spices, along with a flavor/mouthfeel that I can only describe as "milky" - this is one of the most interesting beers I’ve had in a long time - very subtle - take some time with this one before you judge it.