He'Brew Monumental Jewbelation Tenth Anniversary Ale

Contract brewed for Shmaltz Brewing Company.

10th Anniversary Ale brewed with 10 malts and 10 hops. Limited Release

3.7

288 reviews

Clifton Park, United States

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3.7 Bottle shared by Maniac at the Irish Chanukah tasting. Pours clear dark tawny with a medium, fizzy light tan head, medium-short retention with light lacing. Aroma is heavy caramel malt, light chocolate notes, dates, figs, and plums with light spicy alcohol and earthy hops. Flavor is malt dominant with medium hops and bitterness, smokiness and some peat notes, dark fruity esters and a sweet finish. Full body, medium warmth and carbonation.

3.7 Sampled at the Irish Hanukkah Tasting. Sampled in line with the other ones from the vertical collection box. Clear brown with good dark tan head. Sweet plum and raisin, molasses, caramelized brown sugar, woodiness, and a surprising amount of bitterness. Despite being so sweet, this one really dries the palate out quite a bit.

3.6 is this really 6 years old? just found at whole foods... lots of stuff in aroma, prunes and alcohol and roast and vanilla. fairly sweet, thick and syrupy and flat. this has a lot of good stuff throughout, and the alcohol is well-hidden, but could be better balanced.

3.7 Rich, pruney malt aroma with an alcohol punch. Dark brew with a one-finger, beady, light tan head. OK label. Chalky, cocoa, dark stewed fruits, prominent alcohol on the backend. In spite of 10 hops and 10 malts, this isn’t the most complex of beers, but it is a really good sippin’ brew -- especially on a dank night. Finishes out with some moderate roast, wood and a good hoppiness, the body is a bit starchy. Market Square Liquors - I think they broke this out of the Hanukkah pack as singles.

3.9 355ml brown bottle. Black pour, tan head with streaky lace. Nose has some sweetness, light alcohol, some fruitiness. Taste has moderate bitterness, dark fruits, chewy malts. Finish is chewy with some hop taste and bitterness. Full bodied, good carbonation. Mellow ale that has some barleywine attributes, has held up well with age.

3.5 A bit weak in comparison to the rest of the Jewbelations I’ve had. The pour is dark brown wtih a thick and creamy beige head. The nose is overly sweet with nice notes of hop and roasted malts. The taste is too sweet with a bit of a lactose afertaste. A nice roast and an overall nutty malt. Also picking up notes of coffee, burnt malts, chocolate and earth. A thick and surprisingly creamy taste.

3.5 12 oz bottle from the holiday sampler pack. 5-6 years old. This was the "Mystery Jewbelation" included in the 8-pack. Pours opaque dark brown with a thin beige head that holds for a couple of minutes before it collapses into a ring of big-bubbly foam. Aroma is powerfully pungent--highly boozy, woody, raisins, Australian black licorice, molasses. Taste is very sweet (could get cloying) with a bitter finish. Carbonation is average, mouthfeel is oily, body is huge. Although I didn’t care for the smell of this beer--it was too overbearing--the taste more than made up for it. As much of a sipper as the 15 was.

4.1 On tap at the Grad in late 2010. I felt this one, as well as the 11 and 12 were the best offerings of this series. Good licorice, chocolate, and smoky notes after being aged out about 5 years.

3.6 12 oz bottle. Pours extremely deep brown to black with a light tan head. Cocoa and dark fruit aromas, molasses with some hops as well. Flavor has some cocoa, coffee, touch of smoke, molasses, against a background of nonspecific hops. Kind of a light take on an imperial stout; this doesn’t quite seem like a 10% beer.

3.5 Bottle to snifter. Pours dark brown with a soapy kahki head that fades to a film. Aroma is malt rasins and sugary chocolate molasses. Taste is rasins and molasses with a chocolate bitter finish. Palate is medium and chaulky and finishes dry.

3.2 Bottle thank to NYbeer. Dark red pour, little carbonation and an aroma of boozy cherry and caramel. Flavor is also rich caramel and cherries and very boozy.

3.6 12 oz bottle. Solid black. Sweet, sugary, viscous nose. Taste is very malty, with lots of chewy caramel and a huge big body. Heavy beer. Alcohol is hidden beneath the sugar and caramel. A sipper.

3.9 bottle thanks to Kyle, pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Aroma jumps out of the glass, green grapes, dark fruits and brown sugar. Flavor is sweet caramel and a burnt sugar note with figs and plums in the finish with just a hint of booze. I like it.

3.8 Molasses and walnut aroma. Mahogany, medium tan head, some lacing. Molasses and fig flavor, a little on the sweet side. A little thistle appears at midpalate. Walnut and charred oak finish. Alcohol fairly well masked, medium bodied. Not quaffable, but makes for a nice sipper with good food pairing potential. I’m thinking brisket. The hoppiest of the Anniversary ales from Shmaltz that I’m working through at the moment. It starts perhaps a touch too sweet and finishes with a bit much char, but it’s still a pretty nice rustic brew.

3.3 The rebrew version. Somewhat put up against against the 11. Deep red brew with a very thin cap. Slightly spicy caramely nose with citrus highlights. Plums, pepper, candy, chocolate, caramel, nectarine, licorice, dirt, prunes, everything - but it works. Good flavour and highly drinkable with hints of alcohol to keep you from chugging it. Cocoa, pepper, tart, slight medicinal stuff, molasses or maybe burnt sugar, light fruit. The taste is decent but nothing all that interesting. Sticky finish with licorice and alcohol. The 11 is much better.

3.9 Appearance: dark browns and dark chocolates. Lovely head of tans and woods. Lace, collar, and some bubbles. Swirls puffy and nicely thick along the sides. Nose: fudge, brownies, and dates all mixed together in the middle. Brush and twigs in the back, green leaves. Black root, earth, bakers chocolate cinnamon truffle dust. Chocolate covered raisins. Palate: clean with raisins up front than dry and roasty. Chocolate and cinnamon and truffle powder. Chocolate graham crackers. Bit tart up front, tannic in the back. Of the earth, twiggy, black earth, black roots still covered in dirt. Prunes and chocolate covered raisins. Meaty and chewy over all. Final Thoughts: it’s intriguing how all the Jewbelations share similarities but also are quite different. Like all the Schmaltz beers, I was skeptical at first and ended up loving the Jewbelation 10 and all others before and after.

3.3 Cola brown with no cap just a single sad bubble floating on top. Aroma is mild but yummy, soya sauce , burnt sugar, hints of yummy malt but its hard to find. Taste is the same as aroma yummy but not really there. A spice shows up it taste that complements the burnt sugar, and a mild piney hop that I enjoy. Brew finishes bitter but a sweetness lingers on the tung. Taste is crisp and hints of coffee started to show up towards end of the glass. Good brew!

4.1 On tap at Brouwer’s (in 2011). Pours glossy black, with a medium-tan head. Nose is full of mildly burnt brown sugar, dark fruits, some chocolate and vanilla... almost like if you coated a smallish date in cookie dough. Delicious. This may be the best-balanced of the Jewbelations - it’s big, thick, and has a full mouthfeel, and while the alcohol is (somewhat) present, it retains a wonderful smoothness and balance that is lost in the later years of this series. Mostly sweet malts (almost like someone ground up a few whoppers and tossed them in here), but there’s a nice bitter roasty note on the finish. Man am I a fan of this beer - it’s just unlike anything else, and this is a great vintage.

4.0 Bottle. Very dark brown, opaque, medium brown head. First to great the nose is cocoa, followed by a storm of molasses, light aniseed, and foggy fruit. Richly fudgey, burnt sugar, prunes, vanilla, dusty wood, and a bitter hoppy end. The most choclatey of the Jewbel series so far, and once again, delicious!

3.5 Good dose of cocoa and coffee in the aroma. Flavor has quite a bit of licorice and hints of dark cocoa. Not bad.

3.6 Bottle, from the Jewbelation Vertical Collection. Pours semi-opaque black, with a ruby hue. Thin, yet persistent off-white head, very nice lacing. Nose is dark fruit (dates? figs?), more dried fruit than fresh, some vinous notes that are reminiscent of dried berries. Some lifted notes, that are somewhere in the neighborhood of vanilla or coconut can be found as well. Smells a bit boozy, especially as it warms up. Flavours are well-integrated, and again driven by dried, figgy, fruit, with some roast and toast (toasted coconut perhaps?) coming through as well. Not as boozy in the mouth as the nose would suggest, thankfully. Solid.

3.7 Pours almost black with a very thin head. Deep malty aroma, very fruity. Bold and malty with a slightly alcoholic bite. subtle hops. A very big beer. Very nice, but very very similar to the 9th. Good beer, But I feel like i have had it before.

3.3 Draught at Ginger Man in NYC. Pours black with tan head. Nose and taste of tons of malts, dried fig, raisin, licorice candy, apple and toffee. Medium body.

3.3 12oz. Bottle: Aroma of malt, light diacetyl, burnt caramel, and slight dark ripe fruit. Poured brown/cherry-wood in color withe a medium-sized, tan/light brown head that diminished but lasted throughout. Clear. Sparkling. Excellent lacing. Flavor is medium sweet and slightly bitter. Tastes of malt, slight roasting, light coffee, light hops, and burnt caramel. Medium body. Dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, burnt caramel, and slight roast finish is dry. 10%ABV is completely hidden throughout. A real malt bomb.

3.7 Bottle. Pours a near clear brown with a slight red hue and a light brown head that dissipated quickly to the edges. Aroma has notes of dark fruits with toffee and dark fruits with a hint of backing alcohol. Flavor starts with dark fruits but has a growing chocolate note with hints of smooth toffee in the finish.

3.5 Bouteille, part du vertical pack 2010. Couleur acajou/cuivre, mousse est fine un peu café au lait. Pas trop de changement par rapport a la version ’9’ si ce n’est un malt et un houblon de plus. Au nez, arôme de malt, caramel et chocolat avec influence de pin/houblon. En bouche, on note de suite les 10%, malt avec un peu de chocolat amer allant un peu vers la réglisse. Aussi qcq notes de malt fumé, un peu sec en bouche avec une fin de chocolat amer et de fines notes de houblon donnant un aspect pin/citronné. En se réchauffant un peu, je note plus de café et un profile chocolat qui est épais en bouche. Pas mauvaise, mais au fini, ils auraient pu arrêter cette série bien avant la ’14’.

3.8 Black-brown pour with a small, loose, off-white head. Moderately roasty aroma with some dark fruit notes and hints of molasses, mixed berries, and tobacco. The flavor is roasty upfront with a little chocolate, some over ripe tree fruit, raisins, fig, tobacco, leather, and alcohol on the finish. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

3.5 12oz bottle from Jewbelation Vertical. Pours very dark, full head that maintains nicely. The aroma seems to skew towards dark fruit, a bit of chocolate, but not much hop character. Slightly sweet, then a wallop of spicy rye, hops bittering. The finish is lingering spicy and bitterness. The rye and bitterness are a sucker punch I hadn’t expected, and aren’t my cup of tea. Medium to full body, a bit creamy, high carbonation. Decent but not to my liking.

3.6 There is definately a heavy fruitiness in the aroma, more so than the previous jewbelations. Nice and dark, thcik head but not as foamy. This one’s flavour is a bit more peaky with % and hops rather than a full malt flavour, could be the extra hops skewed things a bit. Still pretty good, but the hops dominance detracts from the thickness I was expecting from this jewbeleation.

4.1 Day 3 of the 8 through 14 vertical box. Thick lasting brownish head on very dark brown beer. Soft dark malt scent with a little dustiness and spice. Full soft body with roasted nutty dustiness. Nice alcohol level. Definate chocolatiness. Just a nice mix of licorice, chocolate, malt and hop.