HeBrew Messiah Bold

These guys are pretty tied to the whole Jewish beers shtick, with much punning and merriness throughout the labeling.

Lucky for us they also make pretty good beer, as evidenced by their first effort.

This is labeled as bold but it is in many ways a very pleasant and easygoing beer. It pours quite dark with a thin tan layer of foam and produces a gentle nose of dark roast and predominately sweet caramel.

Taste-wise it's not as sweet as you've come to fear and in fact quite a light mouthfeel. Roast light coffee is the primary driver before it ends with a similarly light nutty finish. I feel like it vaguely, just vaguely, references its big brother somewhere in there.

It's pretty good and very drinkable this - just lacking some of the depth or breadth of flavour that you might expect from a 'bold' brown ale. I expect it's pretty sessionable too but if you're after a lounging contemplative flavoursome brown, look elsewhere. 6.5