He'Brew Jewbelation Twelve

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

made entirely out of popsicle sticks! .. . sweet cereals with some soy .. smooth stuff . . no heat .. . dark sugars and molasses .. you yell "come on in" .. .Good head ring, not a bad brew but lacks invention ..hello! boom! ..sorry AL.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Thick sticky dark brown cap floating on top a dark, dark, dark, dark, dark, dark brown body that no light can escape from, looks good but different for the style. Aroma is yummy and porterish. Coffee and dark sweet malts is make up most of the aroma. Taste is bitter , pears, chocolate are the two most noticeable flavours. Creamy and medium bodied with light carbonation. Lots of rich roasted malts are coming through now. The 12% isn’t noticeable except for the overly warm stomach. Some metallic is showing up in the finish now. the after taste is surprisingly clean but a low amount of coffee does linger. This is the lightest heavy beer I’ve ever drank if that makes any sense.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

fresh healthy nasal, great attributes all around. I must say, i am impressed, malty. This is one of them beers that nobody can deny. I tell you the truth, 9 is a number thats over the border. 8 is being gracious infused with philanthrol pleasure, but 9, I almost want to give it a 10. But that number is forever reserved. Know buddy gives a 10. But Buddy don't give 10's away. Every Buddy knows that.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

I'm glad i bought this beer. Poured a ruby red but muddy brown with my buddy from downtown- big tan head. Aroma is of alcohol, coffee and caramel notes. Taste is super strong with alcohol- chewy, oaky smokey flavours and coffee grounds in the finish.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

I think I like this beer more the second time around. Poured out a very dark brown with red hues, a small but concentrated light toffee coloured cap with very long rim retention and lots of neat looking speckled lacing. The aroma is a huge pile of stuff - probably too many ingredients to sort out what is there but I am not complaining. Chocolate, molasses, raspberries, toffee, berries, jagermeister, cooked glazed ham, sweet in places, mild amount of roast. Overall it is not an aroma blast - somehow the incredible power of this beer stays harnessed. The taste is pretty much in the same league as the aroma as it has so many flavours that I think a lot of them are just cancelled out. Huge malt contingency here to go along with lots of dark, sweet fruit and molasses, a bit of bakers chocolate, souring red wine (not bad but the best way to describe this one flavour), raisins, roasted malts, raspberry flavoured chocolate, tobacco - not the mellow side but the spicier side of it, burnt sugar. Nothing previous is in any strength order like I usually put - shit just kept jumping out all over the place with this concoction. Still, somehow through all of it this has stayed mellow enough to consume with relative quickness but maybe it's the fact that I'm listening to Waking Up Dead by Megadeth... Super thick and oily beer which in this case was expected and accepted. Finishes long with only a hint of alcohol. 12%? Where? Nothing harsh at all.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Vicous and syrupy, this pours out of the bottle like motor oil. No light shines through the glass at all. This is, after all, pretty much what I expected from 12 malts and 12 hops weighing in at 12%. I'm really glad I had some help finishing this bomber; #12 is a bit too much for me. It tastes great, but 22 oz. is a lot to finish by myself. This beer is full of thick, chewy malts--chocolate, caramel, roasted toffee. There are some other misc. flavors milling about here--figs, bittersweet chocolate, some coffee. All those hops make just enough presence to save this from becoming a sweet sticky mess without ever rising up to sour the experience with a truckload of grapefruit or some other unharmonious flavor. That is, the balance is very well maintained throughout. Everything works together really well here. Looking forward to #13...1-12-11: Sampled a two year old bottle last night. I thought I was crazy when I tasted figs in the beer, but looking back into my review now, I see that they were there when the beer was fresh too. This mellowed into a super smooth beer. No heat, and it didn't turn out to be sickeningly sweet, which is what I was afraid of. These would make great beers to hang onto for a while.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

A fantastic example of an America Strong Ale. Make the most in your face, obscenely gregarious beer you can make, and make it good. Well, they do all of those things really, really well with this beer. It's a stout. No, it's a porter. No it's....it's...damned tasty is what it is.

The beer pours out a syrupy thick, brownish/black hue with a huge 3-finger thick dark tan head. Dark fruits dominate the nose, with brown sugar, black strap molasses and yeast playing second fiddle. The aroma was just sooo enticing. My first taste and I couldn't really pick out what I was tasting, as it all sort of blended together like an amalgamation of some mad brewers drug induced dream. Tobacco, dark fruits, molassess, roasted malts, pine needles, dark chocolate and wet dirt (irony maybe?). Finish was definitely some wood and that really tied it all together nicely. So far, I've really enjoyed the beers that He'brew puts out for geeks like me to enjoy. As long as they keep making them like this, I'll keep looking forward to buying them.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

I was able to get 4 torpedo kegs of this fine ale at my store; one of 22 in the Taco Mac apperadis and hope to age one for launch next year. Aroma is very weary and strong with more alcohol on the nose than expected that offers deep, chocolate overtones as well as maple syrup and sweetness with maybe some tobacco and new leather with even some nuttiness as well as some slight wintergreen and is formidable for sure. Appearance is a garnet black in color and just looks very syrupy and dark and is a deep, ruby red in color when held to the light with a medium-sized head on top that diminishes to a thin lacing that is a light-brown in color and definitely has legs. Mouthfeel is extremely robust and full-bodied with tons of sweet complexity as well has tons of bitter balance with a palate that is almost chewy and very syrupy. Flavor on the strong ale is bitter hops as well as some evergreen and pine with an aftertaste that is of roasted malt and dark chocolate as well as some breadiness with some earthy figs and raisin with a finish that is of burnt oak and tobacco with some alcohol noticeable as well as strong whiskey overtones. Overall, what a hell of a brew here and definitely was done big and is very pretentious and could use some extented ageing for sure to mellow out some of the dynamic characteristics in this one; highly recommended and I hope to find another bottle to shelf!! "

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Sampled on 12/10/08. This American Strong Ale pours a eclipse dark brown color from a 22oz bottle. Medium sized tan colored foamy head, with not a lot of retention. The aroma is brown sugar, dark fruits, and slightly roasty malts. A medium to full bodied American Strong Ale. The malts are full of dark fruit and roasted malts. The hops are citrus, floral and earthy. Big beer, its sort of a train wreak of flavors, but it kind of works. Kind of sweet and figgy at the start and finishes a touch bitter. Fairly smooth tasting. A nice winter warmer. Hides the alcohol very well. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter sweet.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

A viscous, sticky strong ale or barleywine more of the English persuasion. Either these bottles need some extended storage time or it's just not very grand from the get go. Young and harsh at the moment with a very distracting mouth feel and flavor. Dark, opaque red-brown pour with a lasting, filmy brown head and little lacing. Aroma of molasses, figs, vanilla, sweet malts and sugary yeast. Strong alcohol burn and an overly sticky-sweet mouth feel. Thick and syrupy with a tacky finish. Tastes of sugary raisins (the kind from Kellog's Raisin Bran), boozy red wine, and licorice. A noticeable bitterness. My gut tells me that storage will not improve upon this too much, it's also telling me it's had enough and to leave it alone.