HeBrew Miraculous Jewbelation Eighth Anniversary Ale

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

My dad brought this back from California for me. Very, very dark. Almost black in color with a quickly diminishing brown cream head. The beer seemed very thick when I poured it. It smelled similar to Amber Bock. It had a roasty taste with a slight coffee aftertaste. I was impressed with this brew. I wish we could get good beers like this here in South Dakota but that will never happen.

Miraculous Jewbelation pours to a beautiful deep brown to ebony color with a thick and creamy tan head and a soft to moderate amount of carbonation. The nose on this beer is just packed with character as big aromas of sweet malt, dark chocolate, nuts, peppery alcohol, and estery fruit marry with piney/cirtic hop aromas. This beer has lots of malt brawn, and lots of big flavors of sweet malt, nuts, buttered toast, chocolate, touches of estery fruit, and hints of roast, that lay heavy on the tongue and fill the mouth. The oatmeal in this beer gives that big body a nice creamy texture, as it glides down. Jewbelation finishes with more complex malt flavors up front, then ends with a nice citic/piney hop bitterness that lifts the heavy malt flavors off the tongue paired with a slightly warming alcohol burn. Oy Vey!! This is one complex, delicious, flavorful ale that is just loaded to the gills with aromas and flavors. Retailing for $4 a 22oz bottle it is a beer well worth seeking out to enjoy as a winter warmer over the colder months. I would not suggest pairing this beer with food, rather enjoy it alone as a relaxing beer to wind down with after work, or a good beer to have a nice cigar or good book.

Opaque dark brown, nearly black, with only a shy ruby showing through when held up to a strong light. Cappachino, yellowy tan top of firm, foamy suds sink to a mediumish height once the pouring stops. Keeps a broken skim and a solid collar always present. slowly placed lacing displays itself in short strings along the glass. Aroma is a bit deep and dark with a good amount of milk chocolate laced with hints of vanilla, roast, and fudge. Flavors are solid and thick with enormously long chocolatelyness infused with all sorts of cookie dough ingredients. Vanilla and the like. Just a tug of roastyness slips in towards the middle and end. So much chocolate though; yummy, yum chocolate. Quite a nice exhibition of stature and firm, lasting flavors that go hand in hand with its amazing Stotu-like body and smoothness. Which brings us to the superbly smooth and thick body of this beer. Very full, very smooth, and quite silky with a tone, that of which could be much like a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie right out of the oven. One fantastic Brown ale. This is what all Browns should be like. Yes, its not quite the true version of what a Brown should be, as this is definatley big and stout-like in nearly all its character. So who cares, this stuff is solid and unbelievably good. Outstandingly so...

This bottled brew poured a medium sized head of fine to large sized mostly lasting light brown colored bubbles that left behind a carbonated nearly opaques dark ruby red brown colored body and a fair lacing. The aroma was nice with brown caramel malt notes. The mouth feel was tingly and mildly vinous that soon faded into its finish leaving a nice dark malt aftertaste. The flavor contained notes of dark and roasted brown malts.

Bottle courtesy of CigarCityBrew. This beer aged very welll. Pours a dark ruby with a brownish head.Aroma reminds me of a porter, lightly smokey/roasted, chocolate / toffee malt. Taste is thick and sugary,very sweet, filled with nice flavors. Alcohol was noticable. Highly enjoyable and drinkable.

very odd beer. very dark in color. Has a very small head to it. not a bad taste for a beer that is kosher certified and rabbi approved. will try again

It seems like a lot of brewers commemorate their anniversaries these days by including an equivalent # of hops, malts, adjuncts, or what have your for whatever year they are celebrating. One has to wonder when they will run out of ingredients! As it stands, 8 malts and 8 hops turns out pretty well. The beer is a rich dark brown color with a frothy beige head that stayed forever. Nice lacing too. The aroma is roasted malt, grain and a little fruit. Medium body with a smooth texture. Lots of toasted malt flavor, along with hops, plum and caramel. The alcohol comes through now and again as well. The finish is malty and warming. Overall this beer was a pleasant surprise that I would try again. Here’s to next year’s 9th!

Very dark brown with a big tan head. Sweet aroma of dark fruits and a little chocolate. Flavor is pretty unusual. Thick and malty, with dark fruits and finishing with dark bitter roast.