HeBrew Jewbelation Eleven

Shmaltz Brewing Company
Brewed at Olde Saratoga Brewing (Mendocino Brewing Co.)
Style: American Strong Ale
San Francisco, California USA

22 ounce bottle in pint glass. Rich dark brown with lasting dense head and lace. Roasted caramel brown sugar dark bread and hop aroma. Very roasted and robust coffee brown sugar and mild chocolate with subdued dark fruit and clean medium bitter finish. Like a cross between an imperial porter and an imperial brown. Full body and creamy texture. I did not expect to like this. I figured He’Brew is just a marketing company, but this is one helluva fine beer and a little bit different from the so-called American strong ales. I wish I had had a couple of these before my Bar Mitzvah.

22 ounce bottle from Asheville Wine Market. Pours a viscous looking burgundy color with nearly no head. Aroma of rich chocolate, toffee, prunes, brown sugar, citrus. Taste is molasses, raisin, chocolate, rye, hops, spice, slight alcohol. Full bodied. Very rich. Nice beer. 1700th rating.

Samples 4.15.07 on Tap. Sticky sweet. Aroma is sweet raisins, molasses ans the taste is very similar. Lingering bitterness, sweet plump raisins and alcohol.

On tap at Blind tiger. Not a lot of difference between this and twelve. In fact, they’re indistinguishable. Dark brown/red appearance, amora and flavor are both heavily malty and fruity. There is a noticeable spicy hop bittering at the end. Nice beverage overall. very akin to a dopplebock.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a small tan head. Has a malty spicy aroma with hints of hops and some weak hints of alcohol. Sweetish malty spicy licorice flavor with hoppy bitte hints. Has a longlasting warming malty spicy hoppy bitter finish.

(Sample Date: 1/20/2009 Source:Capital Ale House - Downtown) Dark sugar and roast aroma with chocolate and lots of dark fruits. Very dark with small tan head. Roasty flavor with molasses and raisins and plums. Medium body and mouthfeel. Dry moderately bitter finish with some alcohol warming, dark fruit and almost a creosote burnt sugar note. Nice warmer. Excellent.

has a nice caramel malt aroma with a touch of bitter hops to it. Nice body, creamy. Has a bit of a sweet taste raisens, a touch of bitter hops. I reallly enjoyed it.

In short: A highly roasted and slightly fruity strong dark ale that could pass as an fruity Imperial Stout/Porter.
How: Bottle 22oz, consumed when about 1 year of age. Bottle sent to me by Hopscotch, many thanks my friend.
The look: Dark brown-ruby body toped by a small beige head
In long: Nose of hard candies, roastiness and alcohol fumes. Taste has an interesting blend of dried dark fruits, burnt malts, fudge, almonds and caramel. The beer is so roasted that is really feels like a fruity imperial stout. Alcohol is rather well hidden considering the alcohol fumes on the nose. The highly roasted malts bring some kind of dusty character to the beer that helps drying it out. A short but sharp bitterness that resembles chewing on raw/green hops. I thought this would just be another brutal extreme beer but it turned out better than expected and I easily went through the 22oz. A good sipper. I would gladly have this HeBrew Fiftypercentoffeverything Eleven again.