He'Brew Messiah
A deep, bold nut brown ale beautifully balanced with rich dark malts and a complex hop character converging to reveal a simply enchanting elixir.
3.2
743 reviews
Clifton Park, United States
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Drank from a bottle purchased at Wegmans. Has a nice malty/nutty aroma to it. Tastes a bit overly nutty and a bit watered down.
Beautiful dark color. This was a mild beer with floral note and an almost hidden coffee after note.
Bottle @ The Butcher’s Block, Sarasota, FL - Dark Brown ale with a very smooth malty flavor. Not sweet and not bitter...just perfect! Very enjoyable. I had one for breakfast :)
APPEARANCE - deep brown color, clear with lightest beige head.
NOSE – very pleasant malty sweetness.
FLAVOR – exceptionally smooth and malty sweet flavor.
NOTES - Seems like the perfect example of a brown ale to me.
Bottle. Dark brown pour with a creamy tan head. Mild dark roasted malt, toffee and nuts in the aroma and taste. Nice mild brown.
a pleasant beer, but not my favorite brown ale. Somewhat bland aroma. Appearance was good.
Dark and roasty and well balanced. This is a well balanced beer with a complex taste to it.
This one left me wanting. Faint nut aroma. Average color and a watery palate. Average and somewhat light mild malt and nut flavor. Meh.
Draft sample at Cherry Blossom Beer & Wine fest, deep brown color with tan head. Aroma notes of toasted malt sweetness and light chocolate. Taste adds some nuttiness and caramel. Light body, moderate-low carbonation, sticky with sweet roast finish. Nice brown ale.
Bottle. Pours a dark brown with red highlights and a pillowy, fine-grained, soft light brown head. Nose is smoke, toast, roast pecans, and polished wood. On the tongue, there’s dark caramel, milk chocolate, tea, smoke, and vanilla. Really well balanced, with a good mouthfeel and a long finish shifting into molasses. Tasty.
Deep malt aroma with a deep brown color. Slight bitter flavor with yeasty and sweet flavor. Strong amount of carbonation. Good, solid brown ale.
Malty sweet and smooth brown ale.
Super carbonated. Brown pour, huge tan head. It’s a mouthful of yeast. They need to filter this thing.
Pours dark brown with a moderate white head. Nose is malt, caramel, chocolate, nuts; Flavor slightly sweet. Nice brown ale.
Dark brown with a light beige head. Aroma is nutty, malty, a little sweet. Smooth, a little bit of a creamy feel. Not bad.
Pours a dark brown with resilient 1 finger off-white head. Aroma is malt, biscuit, and a hint of milk chocolate. Taste - rich malt, chocolate, a touch of caramel and biscuit. Finish is pretty short and clean.
12 oz bottle. Poured a dark brown with a thin beige head and some lacing. Taste of roasted and toasted nuts with sweet caramel malt finish. Medium carbonation, medium body. Quality brown ale
Light malty smell, no hops, taste is similar but a bit more on hops, light mouth feel... too watery..very nice shade of red
Pours a dark brown, very little head, aroma of dark malt. Taste is malty and slight hop bitter finish. Pretty good.
From tap. Pours hazy dark brown to black with a small off white head. Aroma is toasted dark malty and light caramelish. Mild metallic, bitter and roasted dark malty. Flat malty finish. Roasted breadish finish.
Nice roasted malt aroma. Has a bit of cocoa in the aroma and flavor. Full flavored nice brown ale. Bit of a bitter finish, but a solid brown.
Bottle at Ale Mary, Baltimore, September 2014. Medium brown in colour, with a decent, off-white, head. Sweet brown sugar, some yeastiness, dense malts and a hint of hop in the finish. Fine.
Malty, nutty, bitter aroma. Black appearance. Initial flavor consist of slight chocolate malt and finishes with an expressive coffee hop flavor. About average diminishing affect. Body is creamy and heavy. Good lacing affect.
12 oz bottle from Tipsy’s. Dark brown appearance with a light tan head. Malty, dark and rich with notes of caramel, chocolate and nutty malts. Medium sweetness with a medium body and a smooth, creamy feel. Decent brown ale overall.
"Solid brew for a brown ale, but nothing too exciting. Slightly better than the average brown...decent body and carbonation, aroma and flavor slightly more robust than the norm. Malted chocolate, light nutiness, earthy hops, and a touch of bittersweet in the finish."
Transfer from BA review on 11-01-12-
Poured from bottle into pint glass
Appearance – Pours a deep brown color with a one finger cream head. The head has a good level of retention, fading slowly over time to leave a decent level of lacing.
Smell – The aroma is one the lighter side for a nut brown. It does however have a nice sweet brown bread aroma, mixed with notes of chocolate and some nutty smells.
Taste – The taste starts out a nice blend of roasted malt and some caramel sweetness. A lighter nutty and cocoa flavor comes to the tongue more toward the middle in the taste. In the end some lighter bitter hop flavors of an earthy flavor come to the tongue and leave a roasted bitter flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the thinner side with a carbonation level that is rather average. A thicker body would have definitely been better, as it would have played well for the roasted, nut and earthy flavors.
Overall – The taste is fairly nice; roasty, lightly nutty and bitter, but the other characteristics, mainly the mouthfeel take away a bit. Overall not too bad, but nothing spectacular either.
Bottle sample at He’Brew tasting at the Beer&Beyond shop. Hazy brown with a small beige head. Aroma of slightly roasted malts, nuts and earthy hops. Taste - sweetish, grains, malty, herbs and nuts, dry finish. Light-medium bodied. Decent.
Bottle sample at He’Brew Brewery tasting at Beer&Beyond, Tel Aviv. Clear dark brown with low off-white head. Aroma of roasted malt, carobs, light hoppy. Light sweet flavor, roasted malt, a bit sourness, herbs. Sweet-sour aftertaste. Low to medium body.
I poured a 12oz bottle into an official Shmaltz goblet.
Appearance: Pretty chestnut/mahogany hue. Dark, but carbonation is visible. Pours to an average size, tan, foamy head which laces and retains fairly well.
Smell: Lightly sweet nose of milk chocolate, dark malt and hints of hops.
Taste: It takes a lot of chutzpah for an American brewery to not only offer a brown ale, but to do so on a year-round basis and make it one of your flagship brews. He’Brew Messiah Nut Brown Ale is just that for Shmaltz Brewing Company, and it’s a more-than-solid, exactly-to-spec example of the American brown ale style.
There’s a pleasant sweetness right off the bat as flavors of candybar chocolate, toffee and caramel are all noticeable right away. Though flavorful, they are not especially rich or cloying; it’s akin to the sweetness found in a standard cola. Some spicy bitterness through the middle that imparts a touch of dryness and maybe a hint of citrus, though it’s quickly obscured by even more malty sweetness on the backend. There is a consistent hazelnut flavor found in this palate, though it lurks mostly in the background. I get a touch of iced coffee right on the finish. Overall, this is a flavorful, well-balanced beer that’s quite versatile.
Drinkability: As tasty as this beer is, its true selling point is the high drinkability. The mouthfeel is on the thinner side, consistently crisp, and even a tad refreshing while it’s crossing the tongue. The aftertaste is slightly bitter, albeit briefly, and fades away after some time. At only 5.2% ABV, He’Brew Messiah Nut Brown Ale has quite a lot of flavor. Enjoyable as a standalone beverage, a dessert beer, or an accompaniment to a meal.
Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a thick head and some lacing. Aroma of Malt, chocolate, bit of toffee and nut. Taste is a blend of the malt and chocolate with a nice touch of toffee and nut in the background. Mild bitterness and a dry finish. Moderate body, smooth and creamy. Nice beer that goes down easy.