He'Brew Genesis 15:15
15 Years and the bombastic beers blossom bolder than ever. The shtick ages so beautifully as well – some favorites from the Shmaltz vault: FIGS: “And their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked; they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.” -Genesis 3:7. POMEGRANATES: In Medieval images of a unicorn hunt, the captured beast bleeds from wounds of pomegranate seeds dripping blood red juices on his milk white body. Wild and uncontrollable by nature, unicorns could be tamed only by virgins. Once tamed, the unicorn was chained to a pomegranate tree. DATES: Song of Solomon 7:6: “How beautiful and delightful you are, my Love, with all your charms! Your stature is like a date palm tree, and your breasts like its clusters. I will climb the tree and take hold of its fruit stalks.” Psalm 92:12: “The righteous shall flourish like the Date palm.” Arab proverb: It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees. GRAPES: “Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.” -Rodney Dangerfield. Genesis Chapter 15 promises many battles but also sacred covenants. Verse 15: “You, Abraham shall be gathered into the arms of your people and pass at a ripe old age.” To the torrents and the trials, the punchlines and the pleasures. To 15 Years of Shmaltz Life – and beyond – L’Chaim! Jeremy Cowan, proprietor
3.9
158 reviews
Clifton Park, United States
Community reviews
Pours a deep caramel/amber with a thin head. Aroma is huge and sweet with lots of caramel, fruit, chocolate, vanilla, and some alcohol. Awesome. Taste is slightly tart and sweet with some nice fruitiness, caramel, chocolate, rye spice, and a nice booziness. Yum! Medium-high body with a medium carbonation. Slightly syrupy but not cloying. Overall a great beer. Sweet with fruit, caramel, rye, chocolate, and booze. Yum!
2011 Bomber - Brownish maple pour with little head. Sweet malty nose with hints of fruit. Taste is also sweet and malty and you certainly get the pomegranates even 2+ years later. Some vinous qualities as well. Good stuff.
Poured from 22 oz. bottle after cellaring for over 2 years.
Opaque, dark brown with a 2-1/2 finger tan head and very good lacing.
Aroma of caramel, toffee, figs, dates, Southern Comfort, vanilla and brown sugar.
Taste of bourbon, toffee, caramel, figs, dates, vanilla, oak and brown sugar with a significant alcohol burn.
Full/medium body and medium/high carbonation.
Tasted from a 650mL bomber bottle. Pours dark amber with a thin tan head that leaves a thin collar of lace. The nose is toffee, maple, and other caramel aromas with some heat burning the nostrils. The flavor is full of vanilla, coconut, caramel, toffee, and milk chocolate, with just a bit of toasted bitterness balancing. The body is full with average carbonation and a long caramel, oak, and slightly hot finish.
FROM NOTES: June 28, ’12
A: Aroma is full of lots of Bourbon, oak, and vanilla, with some earthy hop and a touch of caramel malt and dark fruit.
A: Poured a cloudy red-brown color with a thin finger of frothy light brown head. Head fades down at a normal pace leaving behind some good lace.
T: Starts off with lots of Bourbon, oak, and vanilla with some earthy hops. Through the middle, more Bourbon flavor comes through with a bit of booze and some light malt, dark fruit, and bitterness. The finish is a mix of Bourbon, vanilla, oak, and some hop bitterness.
P: Medium-full bodied with moderate carbonation. Feels smooth with a warming finish.
O: Pretty drinkable. Big Bourbon flavor, but the beer holds up fairly nicely with some nice hp flavor coming through.
Bomber, Bottled on 9/7/11. Sweet dark fruit aroma with some booze. Pours dark brown with some ruby coloring mixed in. Not much head or lacing. Strong dark fruit sweetness mixed in with some whiskey notes. Finishes very smooth with the dark fruit coating the tongue with just a hint of booze. Fantastic.
Bottle thanks to Will. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is raisin malt, oak, and caramel. Medium mouthfeel with sweet raisin malt and caramel with light bitter finish. Good.
Bottle. This is a big hefty BW that sits well with the best in class. Well brewed.
Bomber purchased 15 months ago at Holiday Wine Cellar ($11.99). Pours dark brown (almost black) with dark red highlights and two fingers of tan foam that reduces to a nice creamy layer. Aroma of dark toffee, rich caramel, some whiskey, and lots of dark sticky fruit (dates, figs, raisins). Flavor of thick rich toffee and caramel, big whiskey, candied dates, figs, chocolate, vanilla, raisins, port wine, pipe tobacco, and thick molasses. The dates and figs are certainly here and some grape-ness (raisins) as well, but I can’t really find the pomengranates. The big ABV makes itself known with quite a bit of hot booziness. Nice level of sweetness here that is tempered decently by the booze and saves it from becoming cloying. Despite the booze, it still finishes well with some lingering sweet fruity bourbon. The whiskey barrel and fruits come together really well in this one. Another readily quaffable high-ABV winner from Schmaltz/He’Brew! (131, 771)
22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled 9/7/2011. Pours an extremely dark brown/almost black color; with a 1 finger foamy khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a ring of lace and spotty bubbles that linger. Slight foamy lacing on the glass, but at 13.4%, this is expected. Aromas of big caramel, raisin, prune, fig, toast, toffee, grape, molasses, chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, oak, earth, leather, and light rye spiciness; slight alcohol as it warms. Damn nice aromas with great complexity and balance of maltiness and barrel character. Taste of huge toffee, caramel, raisin, prune, fig, molasses, toast, oak, bourbon, vanilla, chocolate, earth, tobacco, leather, and light rye spiciness. Minimal bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of toffee, toast, raisin, prune, fig, caramel, molasses, oak, bourbon, vanilla, chocolate, leather, and light rye spiciness on the finish for a good bit. Fantastic complexity of malty flavors with a great complimenting balance of the barrel character; with nearly zero cloying flavors noticed after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and very full bodied; with a very creamy, slick, and fairly syrupy mouthfeel that is fantastic. Alcohol is insanely well hidden at 13.4% with only a small warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a highly fantastic barrel aged barleywine with fruit juices! The flavors from the fruit juices are not overpowering, and the malt complexity of the barelywine is highly complex. Very smooth to sip on as well for the gravity. An incredibly enjoyable offering.
22 oz. bottle served in a Deschutes tulip. Batch 001/791 cases. Bottled 9/7/2011.
A: Pours a very deep ruby with a frothy tan head about two fingers in height. The head recedes to a thin collar and doesn’t really leave on stick on the glass.
S: Dark fruits and sweet grape are most prevalent in the nose with just a touch of rye whiskey lingering in the background. There is some mild oak as well.
T: The first sip is a smooth, but very subdued, rye whiskey with a slight oakiness. There is a definite candied grape sweetness mixing with other dark fruits, but it is more on the sweet side. The backend is slightly warming with a little burnt sugar bitterness to cut the sweetness.
M: Full bodied with medium to low carbonation. Slick and oily feeling with a minute warming sensation after each sip.
O: The fruit juices used definite amp the flavor up a notch and the barrel aging added a nice little layer of flavor. The fruity sweetness might turn some people off, but it worked for me in this case.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 02-06-2012
16oz Growler from Beverage World. Just past 1 year old on the keg. Served at cellar temperature.
Pours dark brown with red highlights and a one finger tan head that recedes to just a light ring and leaves just a few spots of short-lived lacing behind.
Aroma starts with the Rye Whiskey and oak, then moves to a big blast of dark fruits, the figs and dates come through particularly well, the grapes and pomegranates are here, very rich smelling, very fruity, very strong and very good.
Flavor is even more rich and intense than the aroma. More about the dark fruits here. Tons and tons of dates and figs, strong notes of grapes and pomegranates, and the whiskey and oak come through in the middle to the finish. Somewhat sweet. Some people say they get soy sauce, but I don’t really get it...all about the dark fruits and whiskey barrels for me. There is some alcohol, but for over 13% ABV it is incredibly well-hidden.
Mouthfeel is medium/full bodied, somewhat sticky, low-ish carbonation, but at times still feels a little prickly.
Passed on the bottles last year, and really regret it now, but stoked to get a chance to try this on draft. This stuff is incredible, very rich, complex and delicious!
Bomber received in trade. Thank you Claspada. Pours very dark reddish brown with a mocha head that quickly dissipates without leaving much trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is sweet with sweet dark bread, caramel, whisky, rye flour, wood, vanilla fudge, figs, prunes, alcohol, toffee, lemon zest and hay. Taste is very sweet, malty and fruity with sweet dark bread, figs, prunes, alcohol, whisky, roasted coconut, burnt caramel, toffee, wood, raisins and lemon zest. Mouthfeel is smooth, creamy, slightly boozy and near full bodied. Finish is sweet and malty with sweet dark bread, figs, prunes, dark cherries, wood, roasted coconut and caramel. Quite nice...
(Bottle) Pours dark mahogany brown with nougat coloured head. The aroma holds fruit, caramel, sugar, resinous hops, alcohol and wood shop/barrel. The flavour is medium sweet, medium to heavily bitter and tiny acidic with notes of wood, resin, caramel and fruits. The mouthfeel is sticky, round and light astringent with a light carbonation. Lingering aggressive finish. Near full bodied.
Bottle at Bomber-o-rama, Göteborg. From a trade with claspada in NYC. Chocolate and toffee aroma, fruity, caramel, warming alcohol,figs, raisins, biscuits, cocoa, vanilla, licorice notes. Fruity flavor, figs, raisins, dades, alcohol notes, licorice, vanilla, plums, ripe pears, caramel, hay, banana notes, sweetish and with some peach.
Bottle from a local place over a year ago. Aroma and Flavor of dark fruit and malty, traditional barley wine. Even after a year, this one needs to mellow some...a little hot and very slightly bitter. It’s made to stand the test of time, but I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. Very good beer.
22oz bottle.
Deep reddish-brown pour with a bit of off-white head. Brown sugar sweetness, bourbon, rye spice, and caramel on the nose. Flavors of brown sugar sweetness, wood, and toffee.
Pours a very dark brown and amber color with a nice tan head that lingers a bit. Aroma is an abundance of caramel malt and bourbon mixed with figs, citrus and lots of other dark and light fruit. Taste is what you would expect. Big bourbon and sweet caramel malt at first that is quickly mellowed by a strong bitterness and fruit. Finish is mostly smooth and it leaves a nice sweet bourbon taste on the tongue. Only a very slight alcohol burn. I wish the bourbon was just a tad more subtle in this but its still very good.
On tap at Dexters, pours a dark brown nearly black with a thin head and spotty lacing, the aroma has a huge amount of malt with shiskey and chocolate, the front end of the flavor has a big chocolate amount with a finish of dark fruit and a little bit of whiskey, pretty balanced through out the entire glass, very nice.
Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a clear dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity hoppy piney dark fruit aroma. Sweetish malty bourbon caramel and dark fruit flavor with hoppy hints. Has a sweetish malty caramel finish.
Bottle 22fl.oz.
Clear dark brwon colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly to fully diminishing, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, bourbon, figs, date, light alcohol. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20120616]
Location: 22 oz bottle from Whole Foods - Columbus Circle, 6/26/12
Aroma: The nose has some dark fruits/raisin, alcohol, wood, and sweet caramel malts
Appearance: Pours a murky looking reddish-brown color, a light brown head, and a mild lace
Flavor: The taste is sweet and hot, lots of overripe fruit, heavy boozy, with some oak and caramel
Palate: It is full bodied, with a thick, sticky texture, and some mid-heavy heat that leads to a long, hot finish
Overall Impression:
This is one is fairly sweet and fairly hot. It is also pretty intense. You can really feel the 13.4%, as well as the big malty punch from the over-ripe fruits and the sweet caramel. Those two components were the key components of this one. I’d like to see how this one ages, it’s still pretty huge at this point.
Bottle pours a deep dark red/browm with a thin long lasting tan top. Scent is sweet malts, caramel, bread, booze and nuts. Taste is caramel, bready, sugar, booze and wood. Nice!
65cl, Batch 1, as He’Brew Genesis 15:15, new exclusive American brew Anno 2011, with pomegranates, figs and dates, thx to Secret Santa!, very complex sweet brew, alcoholic/spicy and slightly fruity/roasted, very heavy, yet balanced, clear, nearly no head, very good brew, yet very expensive!, WOW!
Bottle at Papsø.
Clear red-brown coloured with a medium sized beige head.
Sweet aroma of caramel, dried fruits and cheese.
Sweet and fruity flavour of caramel, hops and dried fruits with notes of oak, vanilla and alcohol.
Hoppy and warming alcoholic finish.
Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Clear amber/red - offwhite head. Oakey, vanilla, fruity, amber malts, barley, coconut, boozy, chocolate, nutty, light cacao, light honey notes, licorice.
Bottled. Dark reddish Brown coloured. Light beige head. Aroma of ripe fruits Mike fligs and dades. Sweetness, Spice, alcohol and then some. Flavour of liqourice, sweetness, Spice, figs, vanilla, oak. Medium to full bodied. Ends on a fruity and spiced note with a light bitterness. Alcoholwarmth on lips and Palate. Nice
Bottle. Pours dark reddish brown with a medium off white head. The aroma is higjly malty and bready with notes of oak and ripe fruit. The flavour is sweet malty and honey like with notes of bread, biscuit and sweet toasted caramel.
Bottled. A deep red beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, over ripe fruits, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, alcohol, over ripe fruites, and brettanomyces, leading to a dry alcoholic finish, where the alcohol burns the throat.
clear brown, smooth yellow head.
bourbon aroma, roasted malts,
flavor is wood, bourbon, licorice, coca,