He'Brew Jewbelation Twelve

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

Gorgeous orange-tan colored two finger head. Opaque dark brown body. LOTS of carbonation bubbles in glass. Sugary aroma of prunes, plums and black currant. Sweet/tart flavor, with tartness growing on the back of the tongue the longer you wait after taking a sip. Bready flavors of orange and bisquits. Has aged nicely.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours deep dark brown with tan head. The aroma carries notes of crinkled dried dark fruitiness, mild roasty malts, chocolate and a vague hop sting to go along with a bit of alcohol bite. The taste begins thick and creamy with a double sided attach of syrupy maltiness and rich dark chocolate going up against a tall pile of stewed dried dark fruitiness of cherries, plums and figs. I then get some brown sugar followed by a mild alcohol burn. It may need a year or two to even out. It seems to have a load of potential with even more aging.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottle: Poured a deep dark chocolate brown with a creamy tan head. Aroma was toasted malts and hints of dark fruit along with bakers chocolate. Taste is steep roasted malt with a hint of chocolate. Just enough alcohol in the finish to make this stand up to the tongue.

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.