My 1st "meaty" beer...

Are you sure that you don't mean 'chewy?' I've never heard meaty applied to mouth feel. (Except for maybe a Rauchbier that tastes like bacon.)

 

I've had plenty of chewy beers. When the mouth feel seems bready, and kind of viscous, that's what your detecting.

 

Marshall Zhukov comes mind

 

Hoptical Illusion, especially fresh, can definitely have a 'chewy' mouth feel if you are not used to drinking it.

Brooklyn Pennant Ale, while a relatively light beer, can also have that 'chewy' feel due to the high content of biscuit malts used to brew the beer.

 

tenfidy

 

Meaty means autolysis, or a yeasty character generally associated with really poor or unfavorable fermentation conditions or bad bottle conditioning. Also described as a "hot dog" flavor. Really full bodied beers are chewy which is a good thing. Given the right audience saying it is meaty may not be the best description. Hope that helps!

EDIT: Here is what I am talking about if this provides further explination on meaty....

(Information from (http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/a-lesson-in-beer-bad-beer/)

Autolyzed: If your beer smells meaty or like soy sauce or marmite, this is most likely a result of the death and decomposition of yeast cells in the bottle. In small amounts it can add a certain complexity to higher alcohol beers. In large amounts it can make you feel like you are drinking a glass of soy sauce.

 

I've found that a lot of IPA's that have a darker more amber color have that chewy feeling. Try Dogfish 60 or 90, Founders Centennial or Red's, Cigar City Jai Alai. Also really rich full flavored porters and stouts do the trick too. Smuttynose Robust Porter, Anchor Porter, Bell's Double Cream Stout come to mind first.

 

lol not trying to be a know it all sorry. Brewer in me comes out once in a while.

Cheers!

 

I'll be honest OP, 'meaty' is not an adjective I've yet heard to describe mouthfeel, but I think I get where you're coming from.

Both from mouthfeel and taste profile, I think the 'meatiest' beers I've tasted has been HOTD Adam. Boulevard BBQ also comes to mind, but I think I'm just recalling how big and hot the alcohol was on it. Either way, I definitely look for chewiness in a beer…after all, I do have a wookie in my avatar

 

Try Founders Imperial Stout, Ten Fidy, and Hopslam

 

Double Simcoe from Weyerbacher is what you call "Meaty" for an IIPA. Another "Meaty" IIPA is Maharajah from Avery. But full on the palate "Meaty" check out Mephistopheles from Avery.

 

Porcine Unidragon by Clown Shoes is a good and meaty/chewy/thick beer. First thing I thought of when I ha it.

 

I thought it was "Meaty" from the charred oak which gives off the bacon undertones to that Stout? Egh, whatever, I'm easy.

 

Pretty Things Barbapapa is like drinking fudge brownie mix. It makes Ten Fidy look like Bud-Light-Lime-Select... and that's almost impossible to do!!! Best non-bba RIS I've ever had!!! Soooooooo crazy thick!
FW DDBA is a damn close 2nd!!!

 

Uncle Jacob's

 

I remember Blazing World being pretty chewy. Same with 90 minute.