Shmaltz Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Troy, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Shmaltz Brewing - 518 Craft

Established in 1996

Closed in 2021

Contact
200 Broadway, Troy, NY, 12180, United States
Description
For 20 years, Shmaltz championed contract brewing and developed a dedicated cult following for their award-winning HE’BREW – The Chosen Beers® and company tradition, Shmaltz opened its own New York State production brewery in 2013, boasting a 50-barrel brewhouse with 35,000 barrels of annual capacity. Shmaltz brewery packages 12 and 22 ounce bottles and kegs of their diverse core and seasonal favorites. Several new releases and collaborations are on tap for 2016, and Shmaltz will continue their acclaimed barrel-aging projects, utilizing a current inventory of more than 400 bourbon, rye whiskey, and tequila barrels.

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7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
(Bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of boboski. Slightly hazy amber golden with a yellowish, off-white head. Fruit, caramel and a little diacety in the nose. Quite full-bodied with sweet, burned caramel, fruit and roasted malts. Lightly bitter finish with a slight underlying acidity. 190408
Tried from Bottle on 25 Apr 2008 at 12:15

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Muddy with medium white head. Sweet fruity aroma with hoppy and caramel notes. Sweet flavor that holds notes of caramel, hops, grapefruit and toasted malt.
Tried on 21 Apr 2008 at 12:46

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottled. An unclear golden beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma is sweet and totally dominated by over ripe fruit. The flavor is sweet wtih strong notes of fresh fruit as well as lots of hops, somewhat of a hop soup, leading to a dry bitter finish. The alcohol burns slightly in the top of the throat.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2008 at 09:44

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Blind tasting at Papsoes place, another great session, thanks Henrik! Beer #3: Pours hazy orange with a fully diminished white head. Orange and grapefruit aroma, light woody dry note. Flavour is sweet and light acidic. Sweet caramel malt and a mild liqourice hops note lurking through. Goes into a dry and light woody finish. A bit too sweet for my liking.
Tried on 20 Apr 2008 at 03:14

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
22oz bottle-pours a light brown head and dark mahogany color. Aroma is dark/medium malt-molasses, bitter hops. Taste is dark/medium malt-molasses, bitter hops, roasty, nutty, syrupy. Good carbonation. Thanks to jwc215(BA) for sharing. 3.8 *080331-rerate 3.3
Tried from Bottle on 13 Apr 2008 at 21:26

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
I drank a bunch of these beers. It looks like a nice brown ale and tastes and smells like a nice brown ale, but that is all. Good brown ale to chug, but not much good for anything else. Mostly just a gimmick brew.
Tried on 10 Apr 2008 at 10:32

6.8/10 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.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Apr 2008 at 11:24

6/10 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 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 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