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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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour is a hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is decent with lots of piney hops. Flavor is very tart which is guess is the pomegranate but also has a fruity swetness along with some caramel malts. Not really a fruit beer, more of a decent IPA.
Tried
on 20 Jul 2007
at 18:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Medium coarse offwhite head. Red-brown body. Sweetish fruity licorice roasty aroma. Deep, sweet intense peppery fruity malty taste with metallic spicy notes. Some grape, as well. Bitter taste of grapeskins with sweetish malty notes lingers. Very nice! (0.65l bottle, thanks to gr0ve.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2007
at 09:01
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours a clear amber color with an off-white head. Sweet malty and slightly bready fruity aroma, with some hoppy hints. Sweet malty fruity flavor with pomegrante hints and some weak hints of hops. Sweet fruity and malty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2007
at 06:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Ruby amber beer with an off-white head. Dusty, malt aroma. Fruity (pommegranate) flavor with malt and earth. Lingering dusty, malty, pommy. Medium body. Better than recent He’Brew special offerings, but not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2007
at 22:34
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Sweet pomegranate malt aroma. Red amber color with minimal head. Flavor matches the aroma - sweet pomegranate malt with a mild hops finish. Nice tasting - pomegranate unique but otherwise average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2007
at 17:57
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Aroma of fruit and malt. Must be pomegranate. Amber color with reddish hints - almost coppery. The vanished head was white. Starts carbonated, a bit tart, fruit flavor, followed by malt. Body is a bit thin.Then the mouth is mixed with fruit, tartness and malty sweetness. A bit malty. A bit carbonated. Not betting much bitter. Very interesting fruit ale.
Tried
on 25 May 2007
at 20:45
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Amber coloured/orange body with a very thin white head. Aroma of rye, fruits, cherries, hops, pomme (of course from knowing it) and raisins. Medium-bodied; Rye flavours up front with alcohol and raisins noticeable. A strong and very gross flavour throughout. Overall, not such a great beer - good for Jewish people if they have to drink it, but othewise - not worth drinking. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased at Whole Foods in Vienna, Virginia on 18-May-2007.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2007
at 23:02
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bomber; Nose is sweet with definate pomegranate aroma; I used to pick and chew these this often as a kid during the eight years I lived in Sacramento. Slightly hazy rust colored with a medium, but shortlived beige head; flavor is bitter caramel with tem pomegranate fruitinessand a little alcohol and bitterness in the finish!
Tried
on 23 Apr 2007
at 21:00
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Good FL showing today in rating this brew. Wonder who will be next.
22 oz bomber poured crystal clear copper with a subtle purple hue and decent off white head. The aroma is light and smells like sweet malts, roasted malts, citrus and pomegranate juice and maybe a hint of floral hops. The flavor seems very much like the aroma with a subtle kick of roasted and sweet malts, a not so subtle pomegranate juice note across the entire mouth and then midway a floral hop essence joins in the fray with the pomegranate. This is good stuff but doesn’t really stack up against the other big beers they make.
22 oz bomber poured crystal clear copper with a subtle purple hue and decent off white head. The aroma is light and smells like sweet malts, roasted malts, citrus and pomegranate juice and maybe a hint of floral hops. The flavor seems very much like the aroma with a subtle kick of roasted and sweet malts, a not so subtle pomegranate juice note across the entire mouth and then midway a floral hop essence joins in the fray with the pomegranate. This is good stuff but doesn’t really stack up against the other big beers they make.
Tried
on 05 Apr 2007
at 21:26