Sunday Night Suds - Shmaltz Brewing Chanukah Pass the Beer

This week's Sunday Night Suds takes a holiday turn and looks at Shmaltz Brewing Co's Chanukah Pass the Beer Stout.

Yes, I know its not Hanukah, nor July or even Prime Day, but since its Pesach Sheni I figured it was as good a time as any to break out this beer that I picked up the 2018-2019 version of this beer at the Total in Westbury's end of winter  season beer sale a few months back.

The firs thing I noticed about this beer was the foam. And while every not past its date beer has foam, this beer had copious amounts of foam. It did not matter how I poured it, the cup or glass that I poured into, or how much I poured, every time I poured 2 oz of beer, I got 8 oz of foam rising up. It made pouring and drinking a slow process, but the foam was deeply velvet chocolaty and enjoyable.

Once the foam actually settled about 15 minutes later (no joke) the beer was dark brown-black and reminiscent of a sweetened Guinness. It was not undrinkable sweet or even soda like, but the cocoa and vanilla influences were prominent and made this into a grownup egg cream.

Shmaltz Chanukah Pass the Beer is under the Kosher Supervision of the KSA, as are many, if not all of the Shmaltz products.

To see what the experts on Beer Advocate think about the brew, please follow this link www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/262/145097 - keep in mind there is a different version every year, so the older reviews wont be about this beer.

As always, please remember to drink responsibly and to never waste good beer unless there is no designated driver.

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