HeBrew Messiah Stout

Shmaltz Brewing Company
Formerly brewed at Olde Saratoga Brewing (Mendocino Brewing Co.)
Style: Stout
San Francisco, California USA

To call this a "messiah" stout is misleading as it’s no more than a false prophet, and hardly rises to the level of a stout. It’s more of a porter. This has a hint of sourness and is a touch fizzy and thin. Thicker than a schwarzbier, Messiah Stout lacks what might push it into greatness.

Very dark with nice head. Roasted malts very present. A very good sout.

dark brown color, big foamy beige head. aroma of roast malt with coffee notes thin oily palate and a rather weak undefined flavor that hinted at chocolate and caramel. the name is clearly a gimmick but was expecting better since this is contract brewed by anderson valley

big roasted aroma, roasted, dry, hoppy with a kinda metallic aftertaste, my main beef is that it’s way too light bodied

Definitely a funny beer. The aroma punches me in the face with a maccaroonish quality. Too watery to qualify as a good stout texture wise. There was no head either but its a nice color. I wanna say it has a prune flavor...so I will. It has a prunish flavor. Although it’s the chosen beer, I wouldn’t choose it again.

I don’t know if you could refer to this beer as ’pooh.’ This one is actually pretty good. As Gregl40 pointed out I think I actually smell macaroons in this one. Hey it is He’brew!

wow, i’m shocked at these low rating..guess i just liked something in the beer the others didnt. 100% opaque, slight light brown head, mild roasty coffee aroma. bitter chocolate coffee flavors with the bitterness lingering into the finish...hoppiest Stout I’ve had.

There is something wrong with this beer. I poured it into my glass and got about an inch and a half of liquid, and the rest was head. I didn’t even pour it that vigorously. It took me about 5 minutes to get the head to beer ratio right. When it happened the light brown head stayed their until the very end. Had a light brown head atop a black body. Lots of burnt flavors abound, some coffee and citrius in there as well. The beer had a lot of carbonation, but that didn’t bother me. I think the extra carbonation cut through some of the flavors nicely.