 lemonlovr (187), Lockport, Illinois, USA
Mar 21, 2004
This one was unique. Take a porter, pour a bottle of liquid smoke into the glass, and you'd pretty much have this stuff. The heavy-handed smokiness of this brew made me think of a lot of things: smoked fish, smoked cheddar, and worst of all an ashtray. The beer smells old, aged, almost wise. The flavor has hints of chocolate and coffee but I can't seem to get past the smoke - it overrides everything.
popery (154), San Francisco, California, USA
Nov 19, 2009 A solid and extremely smoky porter that could use some aging. The beer pours a nice black-brown with a healthy head, a pleasant surprise as I wasn’t expecting much. It smells like a smokehouse that makes summer sausage and smoked salmon. This flavor and smell would probably smooth with age, but I know very little about cellaring. The taste is mostly smoke with some sweet chocolate or coffee, struggling to make it through the thick haze of smoke. I imagine cellaring for a long period would allow the other flavors to brighten up and smooth out the smoke. The feel is good, bubbly and mouth-coating.
Collint (453), Sylva, North Carolina, USA
Nov 2, 2009 Bottle from outwest somewhere in Colorado. Pours a almost pitch black beer with a thin light tan head. Aroma is soft smoky and malty. Flavor is smoky with a light hop bite and a dry bitter finish. nothing special here. 2008 bottle
BREWMUSKCLES (1067), New Jersey, USA
Nov 1, 2009 acrid smoke character that dissapates into a muscatel flavor with touch of smoke. nice fresh malt flavor to this 2007 bottle the brew was like an english porter and light in body, for a porter that is. it was like an aged wine i suppose with just a bit of sugar.
playitbybeer (54), San Diego, California, USA
Oct 26, 2009 Pours a coffee brown with a tan head. Smells of hickory wood chips, chocolate, coffee, apples, toffee and hops. Wow, nice carbonation taste is very smoky, almost like applewood smoked bacon, definite roasted malts as it warms, hops and warming alcohol in the finish, stellar beer. I’d enjoy this on multiple occasions.
bleeng (592), Spring near Beersel, Texas, USA
Oct 23, 2009 1999 draft at the Rare Beer Tasting at Wynkoop. Dark brown and filtered. Tasty brown ale with a lighter but recognizable smoke flavor. Lighter body and very easy to drink.
gorditoabd (162), San Diego, California, USA
Oct 21, 2009 Bomber. 2009 vintage. Pours deep black with the thinnest of reddish-tan heads. Aroma is very faint and hard to distinguish. Some pepper, leather, and wood, perhaps? Taste, however, is quite interesting. Black pepper, tobacco, leather, all nicely blended and with a touch of licorice. Mouthfeel is not heavy in the least, and the palate, though short-lived, is pleasant and does last and even produces a final hint of bitter chocolate as it lingers on the tongue. Well done!
alagnak (323), Littleton, Colorado, USA
Oct 21, 2009 2008 Vintage enjoyed @ our cabin (seemed fitting in front of the woodburning stove with last year’s elk chili). Nose is sublime, smoky hardwood, hints of bitter chocolate. Taste is the smoky roasted malt and a really nice piney, pink peppercorn bitterness with just a fantastic mouthfeel. This bomber lasted about 2 minutes between a few of us. I was expecting it to be much more heavy and syrupy, but could have easily gone through another one. Outstanding.
gracefullypunk (275), Washington, USA
Oct 17, 2009 On tap at Collins Pub. Pours a deep brown black with a thin tan head. Aromas of candy sugar and funk, in addition to the smoke, of course. Smoke is the dominant taste, with some sugar and a bitter coffee finish.
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