Funky Jewbelation 2014
Shmaltz Brewing Company in Troy, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.40
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Dark brown color, brown head. Aroma of plums, raisins, molasses, vanilla. Taste has vanilla and dark fruit, sour roast. Boozy. OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle - pours brown tan head - nose/taste of caramel, fruity sourness, rye whiskey, oak, sour toffee - medium body
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours deep mahogany into a snifter. Mocha head with excellent retention recedes to coat surface. Bourbon and caramel aromas. Sweet with oak and pit fruit front to back. Medium length dry oak finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22 ounce bottle into snifter, bottled on 2/18/2014. Pours fairly pitch black color with a 1-2 finger dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big sour cherry, green apple, lemon, red grape, plum, fig, date, red wine vinegar, leather, vanilla, oak, toffee, toast, molasses, cocoa, light whiskey, musty funk, hay, straw, grass, light pepper, and yeast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/bready malt, fruity/funky yeast, and moderate whiskey barrel notes; with great strength. Taste of big tart cherry, green apple, lemon, red grape, plum, fig, date, red wine vinegar, leather, vanilla, oak, toffee, toast, molasses, cocoa, light whiskey, musty funk, hay, straw, grass, light pepper, and yeast/oak earthiness. Fair amount of fruity/earthy tartness and yeast/oak spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of tart cherry, green apple, lemon, red grape, plum, fig, date, red wine vinegar, leather, vanilla, oak, toffee, toast, molasses, cocoa, light whiskey, musty funk, light pepper, and yeast/oak earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, balance, and robustness of dark/bready malt, fruity/funky yeast, and moderate whiskey barrel flavors; with a great sweetness/tartness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a very smooth and fairly creamy/acidic mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a light warming present after the finish. Overall this is an excellent barrel aged wild ale style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, fruity/funky yeast, and moderate whiskey barrel flavors; and very smooth and fairly crisp to sip on for the ABV with the moderate acidity. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Enjoyed at gabf 2014. It pours with a mahogany colored body that has copper edges and supports a thin tan head of foam. The aroma offers up tart fruitiness as well as sweetness that has a molasses and brown sugar like sense to it. The taste delivers a pleasing mix of molasses and brown sugar and tart sort of cherry fruitiness. This is surprising drinkable, balanced and delicious.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
13th October 2014
Opaque dark brown beer, good pale tan head. Airy palate, semi dry with good fine carbonation. Very mild dark malts, soft. The dominant flavour is a nice sherbetty dark fruits, not quite sour. There is also crystallised orange fruits and a little cherry. Running alongside is a good hit of bourbon tang. Airy finish. Really nice contrast of fruits and bourbon and dangerously drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
When I got the bill for this glass, I almost fell off my stool; $9 for a glass WTF? If I would have known, I would have blew this sample off. But I already drank it so what else could I do? Anyway, this has a tart aroma that made my mouth water. Big and black in appearance. Thin head . First taste is mild co2. Yes, this has a wild tart feel to it and make no mistake, this beer means business. Quite strong for a sour beer. A big alky feel from the start. One of the few big wild beers I’ve ever tasted. Those tart attributes make this higher alky strong ale easier to take. Tolerable and be careful. Could easily catch a buzz from two mugs of this stuff. Not worth the money I paid for this one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
On tap at Falling Rock, GABF weekend
Dark brown with a small tan head, some lacing. Aroma is woody, vanilla and dark malts. Taste is woody, bourbon, vanilla, dark malts and sweet caramel
Great
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Batch no. 3. Bottling date of 2/18/14.
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a nice looking dark brown close to black color with a slim half finger-ed white foamy head that dissipated to a light messy coating around my glass.
The smell had a nice blend of sweet to tart to sour cherries. A light rye spice arises after a bit of warming. A light sweet refreshing booziness came in too.
The taste was balanced between the rye, the sweet, the spice and the tart.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a cherished tart and sweet cherry aftertaste. The alcohol seemed to hide itself nicely.
Overall, sour strong ale? Hey I’d have this again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 2.5
Poured from a bottle it is a light golden brown with a slight head the aroma is milk chocolate but the taste is sour with a taste of bitter port