HeBrew Messiah Bold

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

I love the way a stout pours! This followed that tradition nicely while adding a bit of its own. A very smooth beer with easy drink-ability.

12oz bottle from Jans Wine and Boos#2 (Tampa, FL). Pours a dark brown to black color with a thin tan head. Aroma is sweet malt, candy sugar, nuts, just a hint of coffee. Flavor is roasted malt and coffee primarily with a few hints of sweetness in the form of caramel or toffee. Some dark ripe fruit and bread as well. Medium body with a slightly watery quick finish.

Dark brown, roasted malts, sweet, little dark fruit, nutty, molasses, caramel, slight hop, dry.

Bottled. Pours dark brown with a small beige head. The aroma is roasted malt, a little nutty, and light fruit. The flavor is toasted malt, some dark fruits, and lightly hoppy. Medium bodied. fairly average brew.

On tap at the Empire Brewfest in Syracuse. Good malt aroma, no real hops that I could detect in the aroma but there is slight hops in the taste., Would maybe try again but not buy

Poured solid brown, cream head. Nuts, malt in the nose. Fairly sweet, toffee/caramel. Some roasted malts. Clean hop finish. Very even throughout, almost makes it boring. I thought this was a surprisingly good brown ale though.

12oz bottle. dark brown color, tan head. Aroma is of sweet rich malt. Some dark fruit, mostly molasses. Flavor is of roasted grains, some coffee roast, caramel sweetness. Very well balanced. Medium bodied.

Brown with light, vanishing head / Sweet, molasses-caramel nose / Medium body, watery, with somewhat cloying sticky malts, with fair finish / Simple, clumsy flavors of burnt molasses and caramel / Well below average.