Shmaltz Brewing Company

About

Shmaltz Brewing Company is an American craft brewing company that brews He'brew Beer. Shmaltz is known for blurring beer styles and using puns, art, history, and pop culture in every aspect of its products. Founded as the first and still only "Jewish-celebration beer," proprietor Jeremy Cowan established the company in San Francisco in 1996 with the first 100 cases of He’brew Beer hand bottled and delivered throughout the Bay Area in his Grandmother’s Volvo. He’brew now sells across 35 states, through 40 wholesalers and nearly 5,000 retailers. After 17 years of being an outspoken cheerleader for contract brewing, Shmaltz recently broke with tradition and opened its own New York State production brewery in Clifton Park, NY, 10 minutes north of Albany’s capital district. Shmaltz’s new home boasts a 50-barrel brewhouse with 30,000 barrels of annual capacity. The new brewery packages 12 and 22 ounce bottles and kegs of their diverse core and seasonal favorites, and hosts fans and beer tourists in their new tasting room for tours, barrel-aged previews, and special releases.