Origin
Shmaltz Brewing Company in Troy, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.37
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Brewed with the juice of over 10,000 luscious pomegranates, ORIGIN is a complex, rich and balanced Imperial Amber Ale with a truly unique character. The pomegranate juice is added during fermentation, leaving only the residual sugars, which serve to balance the hop bitterness.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Reddish-orange colour with a little bit of haze and a light head. Big fresh whole grain aroma with a big splash of pomegranate, plus herbal and chocolatey nuances. Soft body bears lush malts, an evenhanded bitterness, herbal hops, whole grain bagels and again a distinct but understated pomegranate accent. The crystal malt chewiness builds on the palate, however, and this tends to become overwhelming before the glass is half done.
Tried
on 29 Apr 2008
at 08:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled
Red-peach flavor, small steady creamy beige head. Fruity (pomegranate) and barnyardish aroma. Starts watery - pale malty with light fruityness, then finish is hoppy bitter. Simple and not very exiciting.
Red-peach flavor, small steady creamy beige head. Fruity (pomegranate) and barnyardish aroma. Starts watery - pale malty with light fruityness, then finish is hoppy bitter. Simple and not very exiciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2008
at 11:24
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Slightly hazy amberish orange colour with small off-white head. Aroma is mild barnyard along with apple and some earth. Flavour is very fruity, sour apples, and some mild toffeeishness. Also some mild notes of red berries. Not that exciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2008
at 11:08
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
22oz Bottle Pours out an amber topped with a off white head. A nice aroma of sweet fruit. Tast this baby knocked off my socks. Very bitter I would guess the Pomegranate had some thing to do with this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2008
at 21:37
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle: Amber pour with a smaller sandy head. Light lacing. Nose is earthy and fruity. Bits of maltiness. Flavor was dry and fruity, but without the sweetness. Some maltiness pokes through, but the florals drown it out. Muddled.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2008
at 20:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Redlight. Ah my first pomegranate beer and I didn’t even realize so at first. The sharpness of the poms created a grainy wheaty rye type flavor that I misinterpreted at first, but then the pom came through clearly. Medium palate, fairly sweet.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Feb 2008
at 23:40
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
This starts off great with a nice appearance of cloudy medium amber that throws up a tall long lasting off white head. Some fruit in the aroma along with some malt. Sweet malt flavor along with a strange fruitiness. This isn’t bad, but it just doesn’t pull together well.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2008
at 05:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22 oz bottle. Pour is a little light with a thin white head. Aroma is pretty mild, with slight notes of fruits. Flavor is pretty mild with a very tart (and sweet at the same time). Slight alcohol hint. It was decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2007
at 21:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz bottle-pours a big foamy to rocky light tan head and slightly hazy copper color. Aroma is medium malt-sweet, secondary spicy hops, alcohol. Taste is medium malt-sweet-brown sugar, spicy/citrus hops, fruit, alcohol. Thanks Joe for sharing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2007
at 19:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
A clear dark amber ale with thick off white hed. Aroma is malty and hoppy, pungeant. In mouth, a very nutty malt, with roasted bitterness, and pinhey hops, maybe some notes of oranges, but no pomegranate. Body is rich and pleasing, and nice alcohol in final. Overall, a good strong ale.
Tried
on 26 Jul 2007
at 18:13