He'Brew Rejewvenator 2008
Contract brewed for Shmaltz Brewing Company.
Sacred Species No.1 YEAR OF THE FIG Jewish tradition celebrates 2 New years; The 1st calendar month in spring historically came after the barley harvest. The High Holidays in Fall mark the creation of the world. Harvest to harvest - the perfect bookends for deliciousness! Arise noble Rejewvenator, infused for ’08 with the sacred succulent Fig. O the history, O the shtick: Gen 3:7: "And their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked; they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons." Time to get cooking! "Professed Wrestlers and Champions were in times past fed with figs." -Pliny, Roman naturalist. Romulus, mythic founder of Rome, and his twin Remus were nursed by a wild she-wolf under a fig tree. In 1857, Queen Victoria commissioned an 18 inch plaster fig leaf to adorn her cast of Michelangelo’s David. "The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf brings its modesty under suspicion." -Mark Twain. Buddha gained enlightenment meditating beneath a fig tree. Zechariah/Micah: "Nations shall beat their swords into plowshares...all will sit with his neighbor under his fig tree, with no one to be afraid." Fear not Shmaltzers - Grab your Newtons, rub your happy belly, strap on your fig leaf and your championship belt, abd prepare to blow your shofar... tis a new HE’BREW Beer season to rejoice. L’Chaim! Brewed for Schmalt Brewing Co.
Sacred Species No.1 YEAR OF THE FIG Jewish tradition celebrates 2 New years; The 1st calendar month in spring historically came after the barley harvest. The High Holidays in Fall mark the creation of the world. Harvest to harvest - the perfect bookends for deliciousness! Arise noble Rejewvenator, infused for ’08 with the sacred succulent Fig. O the history, O the shtick: Gen 3:7: "And their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked; they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons." Time to get cooking! "Professed Wrestlers and Champions were in times past fed with figs." -Pliny, Roman naturalist. Romulus, mythic founder of Rome, and his twin Remus were nursed by a wild she-wolf under a fig tree. In 1857, Queen Victoria commissioned an 18 inch plaster fig leaf to adorn her cast of Michelangelo’s David. "The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf brings its modesty under suspicion." -Mark Twain. Buddha gained enlightenment meditating beneath a fig tree. Zechariah/Micah: "Nations shall beat their swords into plowshares...all will sit with his neighbor under his fig tree, with no one to be afraid." Fear not Shmaltzers - Grab your Newtons, rub your happy belly, strap on your fig leaf and your championship belt, abd prepare to blow your shofar... tis a new HE’BREW Beer season to rejoice. L’Chaim! Brewed for Schmalt Brewing Co.
3.4
240 reviews
Clifton Park, United States
Community reviews
Bottle. Pours a ruby body with a thin off white head. Fruity malty esters, dates, plums, fig, dates, and cinnamon notes. Malty and chewy with a solid warming. Lighter fructose with a sweet warming. Wow, well done.
Bottle: Almost Ruby in color, clear, moderately sized light beige head, frothy, spotty lacing. Bready nose, very slight dark pitted fruit. Smells like a Dubbel of sorts. Not as heavy, nor fruity as most Dubbels, but it does offer up some fig/date like flavors, as well as a mild breadiness. Body and mouthfeel are moderate, not quite up there for most Dubbels, let alone Strong Ales. Clean finish, figgy, a little bit of fruit skin as well. Lingering breadiness. Think of watered down Dubbel when drinking this. Flavorful, enjoyable, but could stand to be a bit heavier.
Tap @ The He’Brew Bash at the Blind Tiger NYC. I was fricking wasted by the end so some of these rates might be a bit odd. SMells like lettuce and cheese. Odd fruit. Sweet and slightly cringey. A very strange little number.
Bottle. "Year Of The Fig" Pours murky, ruby-tinged brown with a short, beige head. Aroma is dark fruits (figs and raisins), earthy notes, sweet malt, candied fruit, caramel, light chocolate and dusty cocoa. Taste is rather sweet with more dark fruit notes, caramel, chocolate, light cocoa, candy, light earthy notes and soft spice. Body is creamy and chewy with medium carbonation and an over medium to medium-full palate. Ends with more sweet malts, cocoa, dark chocolate, figs and raisins, light plum, spicy notes, light earth, and caramel. Very nice stuff!
Bottle 22fl.oz.
Light unclear dark amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark caramel, burnt caramel, fruity, light to moderate hoppy, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090913]
19th July 2008. Brow beer brewed with fig juice. Not sweet at all .Toffee bitterness plus a hint of fig. Quite drinkable but was hoping for something more sumptuos.
The color is a deep, thick-looking cherry juice red. One finger of off-white head with a pinkish tinge. Thick with some pale light (but no shapes) passing through.
The smell is notes of roasted malt; hints of burnt cherry. Strong alcohol aroma. Bitter, flowery hops are there but play the back rows. Like a sweetish bock or mild barleywine.
The taste is just more dark cherry, but with very strong alcohol and roasted, but slightly sweet malt.
Has the thick feel of juice, with a bitter alcohol-laden bite on the swallow. A good, not great beer. A bit too cherry sweet, but enough bitterness to make it palatable.
This brew produced a nice brown, almost Coke-like color to it. It had a nice, but short-lived head that left a nice ring around the top. It was very dark but some light got through which prevented me from giving this the "motor oil" rating. It had a very fruity, sweet aroma. There was a dash of hops in there as well and the overall scent actually reminded me of the Samuel Adams Double Bock - very pleasant. As evidenced by the smell, the taste followed suit with a fruity palate. It had some nicely flavored hops in it as well. It started a little bitter and mellowed out very quickly to end smooth. Although, there was a very quick flow of flavors and it wasn’t very lasting.
Pours a nice dark brown with subtle red tints throughout. One whiff of this brew brings thoughts of fruit, flowers, hops, and several malts. At first taste it is bitter, but it quickly fades into a nice fruity/earthy aftertaste. For some reason this Strong Ale reminds me of a weaker Belgian Dubbel.
Beer tasting at wine world. Wanted to like this but its just to sweet and boozy for me.
Bottle. Pours mahogany with an off white head. Smells of spice, earth, some fruity hints, caramel. Tastes of dark fruit with a boozy finish and some caramel.
Dark amber in color with light carbonation. Aromas of figs, prunes, and faint spice. Med/syrupy body with notes of figs, prunes, dates, slight oxidation, almost cloying sweetness, and a sweet average finish. Too sweet for my tastes at the moment but it should be interesting with some age.
Bottle at Papsø.
Clear orange brown coloured with a small off white head.
Sweet aroma of caramel, dried fruits and burnt sugar with notes of alcohol.
Sweet flavour of caramel, dried fruits, burnt sugar, hops and alcohol.
Hoppy and warming alcoholic finish.
Bottled. A hazy deep red beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of sweet malt, caramel, and over ripe fruits. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of malt as well as over ripe fruits, caramel, bread, and alcohol, leading to a dry alcoholic finish, where the spices lingers.
clear red, small smooth yellow head.
aroma of malts, caramel, hoppy bitterness, faint toffee.
flavor is malts, bitterness from spices, bitterness from hops, toffee, caramel, ends quite bitter.
Bottled. Deep dark amber coloured. Unclear. Beige dense head. Prunes, sweetness, sugar, fruits and light spice in the aroma. Flavour of caramel, prunes, light herbs, burnt sugar. Thin bodied. Ends on a fruity note with a small alcoholbite.
22 fl oz bottle. Pours slight hazy dark amber with a small off-white head. Aroma is dark malty, light pepperish/liqourice dark. Mild bitterness and slight roasted note. Annis seed. Light wooden and yeasty too. Solid hops bitterness into the finish.
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of yespr/Ungstrup. Pours a deep reddish amber with a light brown head. Sweet oxidized aroma of dried fruit and burned caramel. Medium body, lots of roasted malt and dried fruit, a little perfumy almost. Oxidized and pleasant with some warming alcohol. 130909
This bottled brew from a rating party at Patrick’s poured a small sized head of foamy fine to medium sized off-white colored bubbles that were and left behind a transparent uncarbonated red brown colored body and a poor lacing. The aroma was musty. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The flavor contained notes of malt mild hops and sweet. A decent one that I would consider having again.
2008 Year of the Fig / Sacred Series No. 1
9/04/2008: He’Brew Rejewvenator 2008 pours out in a golden brown stream and is mostly clear with a small dark beige head. The aroma has toffee malt, a vibrant fruitiness (figs, of course!), and a hint of apple leather. The semi-sweet flavor contains cherry, caramel, aged or baked fruits, and is malty with and earthy hop presence. The beer has a medium body and is slightly chewy. Overall it this is a good beer, but not overly interesting. I am slightly disappointed as I was really hoping for more...
22 fl. oz. bottle (7.8% Alc by Vol.) from Rozi’s Wine House in Lakewood/Cleveland, Ohio. Rating #203 for this beer.
Dark ruby amber with nice off-white head. Little soapy smell. Bread, malt. Not a whole lot going on here. Figgy caramel prune taste. Hints of plum, wine, and dark fruit. Not much hop character. Would neither buy another one, nor recommend.
Pours clear dark brown with a tan head.
Fruity sweet malt aroma.
The flavor follows the aroma.
Bottle shared with HogTownHarry, garthicus, blankboy & tupalev - HogTownHarry’s bottle. Ruby-brown with a small cream-coloured head. Aroma is quite sweet with burnt sugar and malt, and some nice green hops around the edges. Flavour is big and fairly well balanced, sweet and fruity, but nicely hopped in the finish. I bit less exciting that I hoped/expected, but still enjoyable.
In short: A boring alcoholised bottle figs/raisins juice with bubbles
How: Bottle 22oz. Consumed relatively fresh about four months after purchase.
The look: Ruby body topped by a beige ring of foam
In long: Nose of hard candies, figs and raisins. Taste is pretty much what the label on the bottle implies. This is figs/raisins concentrate juice with bubbles and alcohol. Sweetness level is medium-high. The little hops I could notice (very little) provide a little tobacco component but that’s about it. This is not poorly executed but this is just too boring by nature to be enjoyable. Yet another ordinary jewish brew from this brewery that likes to make funny play on words with “jew”. I find that juvenile, very jewvenile.
Bottle. Pours a deep brown, decent head. Flavor is earthy and a bit sweet, noticable fig presence along with some roasted malts and caramelized sugars. Belgian yeast type notes also present giving it a sort of funk. Medium bodied on the palate, somewhat viscous and smooth. Leaves a lingering syrup note on the palate. Not a bad brew at all.
Aroma: Soft malts, plum, fig, caramel. Appearance; Dark Amber, initial thick caramel-colored head, light to medium carbonation. Flavor: Nice caramel, malty, citrus complexity, slight belgian-style like yeast lingers on finish. Palate: not too viscous, slight carbonation cuts any viscosity leaving clean finish. Overall: once again, bang for the buck with these guys. Only second behind the 11 in my preferred brews from this brewery.
Wow! Another Hebrew beer with (gasp!) Figs! Holy Messiah, enough already. Heavy syrup sweetness dominated by fig and raisin with a chewy molasses sweetness and a spicy citrus component. A little medicinal quality highlighted by a strong alcohol presence at the finish.
bottle at home in Puerto Rico from Consumer Beverages in Buffalo. Pours dark with medium foamy head. Nice dried fruit and malty aroma. Malty sweet flavour and aftertaste, nice strong alcohol content.
Really awesome beautiful beer. The malt and fig flavor blend seamlessly together. Gourmet. Unique. Good hop presence. This a beer you will crave later. It just smells so damn good. I have an idea. Let’s barrel age this beer and amp up the alcohol just a bit. Oooh baby that would be nice.
Bottle pour,dark red with a decent beige head.Aroma was malt and dark fruit with some sweetness hints.Taste was sweet caramel and dark fruit with malt and hops.Thick beer with a nice alcohol warming.Not bad.