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+Episode: 1627
+Title: HPR1627: 5150 Shades of Beer: 0001 He'Brew Hops Selection from Smaltz Brewing Company
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1627/hpr1627.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-18 06:01:04
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+It's June 828 on October 2014.
+This is an HBR episode 1,627 entitled Shade of Mirror, Mirror, Mirror 1 Keyru Hop selection
+from Smaltz Brewing Company.
+It is hosted by 5150 and is about 16 minutes long.
+Feedback can be sent to 5050 at linuxpacement.com or by leaving a comment on this episode.
+The summer is near, brinking shame.
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+Howdy folks, this is 5150 for half hacker public radio.
+And recently I took the opportunity while I went into the big city to pick up a lift
+chair for my father to replace the one that got destroyed.
+While I was there I went by a liquor store and had greater selection of craft brews than
+what I have locally.
+We don't have a bad selection locally but you go a bigger city, you get a better selection
+of everything.
+So I brought home several six packs in case, well, 12 packs of sampler selections.
+And one six pack sampler selections, there's one from Shiner, if you drink beer and you
+live here in the United States, you've probably seen the Shiner Bach which is very good,
+down in Texas.
+And so I have six packs from them and each one is a different beer.
+But what I want to do is this is an idea that I had a couple years ago when we quit
+recording pod brews, which I was on, and I did something very similar when I was in
+which it all was pick up a selection of craft brews that were available at home.
+And unfortunately, I kept finding from week to week a new craft brew at home, so a lot
+of those never really got reviewed on the show and then we quit doing the show.
+I thought, well, I can't very well talk about how the brew beer like Tracy Holtz or
+Sporksaber did on the old show, but I can certainly taste the beers and give my opinion.
+So that's why I thought to do with all those beers that I had left over after pod brews
+quit.
+And so then I started drinking the beers, bringing them up from the basement and drinking
+them.
+But I always had in the back of my mind now we're, you know, for each beer type, we're
+going to leave one and we're going to review that beer for HPR before it goes.
+And as it turns out, you didn't ever hear any podcasts because it never happened and
+the beers all got drunk or was a drunk.
+In any case, I got drunk drinking the beers, I got drunk.
+But okay, so this is this idea back again.
+And as I've been sampling these beers, either the first one I drank or the last one, you
+know, for I run out of that type of beer, I've been taking notes.
+So unfortunately tonight, you're not going to hear me review any new beer that I've just
+opened and never had before.
+I would like to do that eventually, but right now I'm working from notes.
+And yes, Ken, I already hear Ken in my head, you know, don't do them all in one night
+now.
+I'm not going to, Ken, I'm going to probably break these up if possible by the brewer because
+even though some of these I brought a whole six pack of one type of beer, a lot of them,
+you know, I've got two or three six packs from the same company.
+So, and of course, like I said, I have several of these sampler, 12 packs or six packs, which
+is all from the same company, but different styles of beers.
+So that's what I'm going to do tonight.
+I had a 12 back from the Schmaltz Brewing Company.
+And this is their titling, not mine, they're all hops under their category of Hebrew, he
+apostrophe brew, the chosen beer.
+Okay, yeah, well, the founder of the company is apparently named Jeremy Cohen, so I've
+got to assume he's in on the joke.
+But if you were offended for this kind of profiling as I am, then please direct your comments
+to link at the Linux link.net.
+Let's get on with the review.
+Okay, so it's a Schmaltz Brewing Company.
+All these are labeled as Hebrew, but it's four different beers in the collection.
+And they're all apparently, at least for this company's beers on the hoppy side.
+I didn't find any of them offensively hoppy, as you folks may know, if you've listened
+to pod brewers, I said, the beer I like most is the one I haven't tried yet, but having
+said that, generally, I prefer a beer that's more multi in flavor than hoppy.
+Now, you eat little hops for accent, but I'm not a fan of these beers, and this is a
+term I think I coined that are my hops can beat up your hops beer.
+And none of these in the Schmaltz Brewing Company collection are like that, despite them
+being marketed as a hops collection.
+Okay, so the first one in the first beer I want to tell you about is Genesis, and this
+is a dry beer.
+This beer is so dry that you could be forgiven for ordering glass of water to go along with
+it.
+The aroma and the taste is bread-y, not biscuit-y, like a lot of beers are described, but
+more like a fresh sourdough loaf.
+In fact, the taste of this beer almost wants you to spread butter over the beer, so if
+that's sourdough, great sourdough taste.
+There's just enough hops in there to be interesting rather than annoying, and it's a little
+sweet on the back end.
+It's so subtle that you're likely going to miss it on the first sip.
+I have to admit the mouth feels a little watery.
+I don't usually talk about that, but compared to a lot of these beers, just a little watery,
+5.5% alcohol content, and I'm just going to say again, this is one thing I really love
+about this Smolts Brewing Company.
+On the label of all their beers, they include the Maltz and the hops that go into the beer.
+So if you're a home brewer and you have some experience, you at least have a shot at
+replicating the taste of the beer at home, I think a really good shot, and if perhaps
+you're more advanced beer fishing auto, if more experience than me, you could, more experience
+than I, it seems the drink and drunk thing.
+You know, you could look at the label and probably have a pretty good idea what that beer
+is going to taste like without ever tasting it.
+So in the Genesis, the Maltz includes specially two-row, Munich, Cormunic 40, Wheat, and
+Dark Crystal, and the hops are Warrior, Centennial, Cascade, and Simco.
+Okay, Dexlin's selection is David Slingshot, and the four, not to say it was bad, this
+is probably my least favorite of the four, it pours golden like an American logger, it
+has a pretty large head that, besides rapidly, Rhyroma, subtle Rhyroma, I should say, but
+the label says it's a blend of multi-grain malt, and compared to Genesis, this, I think,
+has an emphasis on hops without being excessively hoppy, it's sort of like a citrus taste from
+the hops, the Maltz are specialist two-row, specialist, well, maybe I should, surely I
+meant specially, specially two-row, Carmel Pills, Rhyale, Crystal Rhy, Vienna, Wheat,
+and Flaked Oats, so that's why it's more multi-grain, you've got some Rhy, you've got some Wheat
+and you've got some Oats in there, hops are Cascade, Saz, S-A-A-Z, Summit, Citra, and
+Crystal, okay, third one in the pack is Bittersweet Lennies R-I-P-A, Double Rhy, and I do like
+me some Rhybeer, and apparently the Lennies, it's an O2 Lake comedian, Lennie Bruce, and
+all of these, they have somewhat humorous acodotes on the label of the Fautals, however,
+they don't seem to have a whole lot to do with the flavor of the beer itself, so I'm not
+going to take time to relate all of them here.
+The R-I-P-A pours very dark with a small head, and a room of sweet rye bread, you know,
+you get some bitter rye bread, this is like rye bread, it's got enough honey or something
+added to make it sweet, and it's got a, you know, doesn't mention honey on the bottle,
+but, you know, I think it's fairly sweet, it's got like a sweet honey taste without
+being cloyed, it's not like I've had those honey beers, they're almost cloyed, and then
+right away, you know, the hops hit the back of your tongue, so it's kind of washed away,
+but that sweet taste is kind of washed away by the fresh taste of the hops.
+Strong rye flavor, much more than the slingshot, the David slingshot, the slingshot was mixed
+with three grains, including rye, this, this, double rye, that means they're hitting
+the heart of the rye, the mulch are two row, rye amult, torrified rye, crystal rye 75, crystal
+malt 80, wheat, kiln amber, core munic 60, hops are warrior, cascade, simco, saz, crystal,
+genook, amarillo, and centennial, okay, the last of the four in the hops, yeah, and that's
+me sliding beers, not these same beers, bare bottles out of the way of the amoniner, so
+I can see what I've written, all right, hop mana, IPA, originally there's hop hanna, which
+would work too, porous medium amber with a good head, like of all, all these four beers,
+that's what it makes the most head, then right to take much of a distinct aroma, this is kind
+of a hoppy, hoppy beer, it's not, I said, I've had those beers that, man, it's just hops
+on top of hops, on top of hops, and you know, my hops can meet up your hops, this, this,
+this really is all hop, this sort of all hops all the time, but it's not, not as strong
+as some of those, it's for the hops and thuses, who doesn't want other flavors getting in
+the way, but it's still not so hoppy, the hops actually get in the way of the hops, hoppy
+enough to satisfy most hop pads without making your tongue feel like it's under assault from
+the hoppy command, okay, mulch, specialty two row, wheat, munic, Vienna, core munic 60, hops,
+warrior, cascade, citra, amarylo, crystal, centennial dry hop, oh, I'm sorry, the hops that centenials
+one of the hops, and then dry hop, centennial, cascade, and citra. Now, I think the, so
+that I'm not huge on hoppy beers, but I think these are four out of four winners, if you see the
+smolts brewing company in your liquor stores, refrigerator cabinet, just grab it with both hands,
+I think from the selections, I don't think you'll be able to go wrong. And like I said,
+even if I hated the beer, I would love the company because they've printed the mulch and the hops
+on the label, okay, that's as far as I'm going to get tonight, and we'll take everybody for listening,
+and I'll come back at you fairly soon with another beer review, this has been 5150 for Hacker Public
+Radio.
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