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.

Pours an orange body with a reasonably thick head. Hop aroma, along with fruits. It wasn’t that hoppy really, but it was hoppy enough. I didn’t sense any of the rye there. Alcohol taste covered up by complex flavour. I enjoyed it.

Re-rate: 12oz bottle out of Vertical Jewbalation gift pack. The recipes have all been recreated this time around and I sat down to sample all of them. This beer still reigns as the worst of the bunch. However, it was great to see the incremental formation of this beer making it hard to actually blame the brewer. The beers building up to this (Anniversary 8-10) were doing a decent job. Ignore the fact that having a mish-mash of different hops and malts is a silly basis for a beer, they all came off fine and getting better with each new year. But they reached a saturation point here. They tried to ferment this baby real well to pump up that abv and it ended up in an alcoholic mess, yet well attenuated. I like the idea but the results were not a winner. Afterward, the Anniversary brews all started to have a lot more sugar covering up the alcohol, a necessity for such a beer. The first time I had it I was very upset, second go around its not quiet as bad. I also did not get that really shitty leafy hop messiness, must have gotten a better crop of hops this time. 6/3/6/3/13, Final rating is a combination of the two.

I always look forward to the Hebrew’s anniversary releases and so far have not been disappointed. Every year they were able to make a similar yet different and more importantly, good beer. However, that tradition has finally come to an end. The beer smells like an alcoholic bitter-leaf mess. Taste is slightly less bad with too much bitter leaf hops and prune alcohol. Body is way too light and there is no malt backbone to the strong alcohol and massive amounts of hops. The only thing this beer has in common with its previous versions is its black body and the very entertaining label. Couldn’t drink too much of this, just one malt and one hoppy to much this year.5/3/6/2/11
22oz bottle, Rodenbach GC glass.

Bottled. A deep red beer with a brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of over ripe fruits and caramel. The flavor is sweet mlaty with notes of alcohol and over ripe fruits, leading to a dry bitter finish.

Duck Island, Seattle
Amber colour, slightly hazy. Chewy, earthy, with lots of grapefruit and crystal malt. Extra chewy on the palate, resiny, crystal malt and more grapefruit. Balanced but for the lack of rye. Good brew, but not great.

Clear ruby copper body with a large creamy tan head. Sweet caramel, rum soaked fruit and a bit of alcohol in the aroma with a bit of floral and citrus hops. Strong earthy bitter flavor with lots of caramel and molassas and some rum-soaked fruit.

Bottle. Rye, cherry and malt aroma. Red amber color with small head. Sweet cherry flavor up front followed by a nice strong pine hops finish. Nicely blended.