Aecht Schlenkerla Fastenbier

Brewed by Brauerei Heller
Style: Smoked
Bamberg, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Cask (gravity) @ Schlenkerla, 96049 Bamberg, Germany. Unclear light to medium amber brown color with a large, frothy - creamy, excellent lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, wood, moderate smoke. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily - creamy, carbonation is soft - flat. At last i manage to taste this beer, I was so excited. It is so nice and smooth and easy to drink. Delicious beer... the smoke is very well balanced. We was sitting in the Old Original room and did get more than 5 mugs of this fantastic beer, so nice ;o)) (200308)

Draft. A chestnut amber beer with a huge creamy tan head. The aroma is sweet and very smokey giving it notes of bacon, tar, and wood. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of smoke again giving it notes of bacon, wood, tar, but also caramel notes from the malt, leading to a dry smokey finish with a light bitterness. The flavor overpowers the aroma once you dig into the beer.Wow.

On tap. Clear, warm orangey brown with a dense and handsome off-white head leaving laces. Intense, fat and baconish smoke aroma with a whiff of butter. Full-bodied with a solid malt base with some caramel. Lightly bitter finish. 080409

From tap at Ølbaren. Pours dark clear and golden amber with a huge and light tan head. Leathery smoked and roasted breadish malt aroma. Smoked bacon and salami flavoured with a subdued malty note. Dry and smoked solid base flavour with a light sweetness appearing towards the finish. Ends mild meaty and dry. Dry and bitter into the far finish.

Draught at Bishop’s Arms Folkungagatan, Stockholm Mahogany colour, rich firm head. Sausage-like beechwood smoke dominates the nose. Medium sweet with soft yet solid mouthfeel. The velvetty, yet powerful smoke flavour surrounds me completely, a condensed, seemless full sized flavour. Remining fabulously drinkable with a balancing late bitterness. At least as good as the keg märzen. I can only imagine what it’s like from wood at Schlenkerla.

Draught. Deep amber colour with small slightly off-white head. Aroma is roasted malts, some bread and smoked wet wood. Also some mild meaty and lleathery notes. Flavour is smoked wet wood, some mild meaty and leathery notes along with some sweeter malts.

Draught at Ølbaren, København. Clear orange coloured with a creamy off white head. Light smoked aroma of hay with notes of grain, hops and caramel. Light smoked flavour of caramel, hay and hops with notes of grass. Hoppy and smoked finish.

Draught. Good smoky aroma, campfire and salami. Clear amber brown colour. Big stable creamy tan head. The flavour is nice and smoky, more or less like the aroma, but with a good nice maltiness on top. Flavourful and mellow.

UPDATED: JAN 24, 2010
Name: Fastenbier
Date: March 16, 2008
Mode: Draft, Nitro
Source: Brick Store Pub
Appearance: hazy burnt orange, fine beige head, scattered lace
Aroma: huge smokey wood aroma like a slab of hickory smoked bacon
Body: creamy body
Flavor: dry dark caramel malt flavor, layers and layers of smoke, lots of earthyness with the smoke keeps it very dry, very woody, touch of dark caramel sweetness tries to break through but can’t find its way through the smoke, by the third glass you become saturated with the smoke and the caramel sweetness blooms and provides the perfect balance to the smoked earth
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.9/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *** /4

UPDATED: APR 3, 2012
2012-04-03, draught at Ølbaren, Copenhagen, 9-5-8-4-17=43
Dark mahogany color, brown, with red shades; creamy head, of which a thin layer is persistent. Pervasive aroma of smoked ham, and sweet caramel; steady, delicate and powerful at the same time. Very good body, it’s round but not thick; smooth mouthfeel; caramel flavor, some roasted malts, introducing a late dryness; very strong smoke flavor that combines well with a mild residual sweetness; just some more roasted character and roasted nuts in the final.
It seems to have lost the disturbing character of roasted malts of the past, and it gets more similar to a midpoint between Märzen and Urbock; but those still remain superior in elegance. Example of smoke power.

2010-04-12, draught at Plan B, Copenhagen, 8-5-8-4-17=42
Brown color, with red hue, hazy; medium sized creamy head. Very nice aroma, firewood and smoke, smoked sausages, less pervasive than last time I had it. Dark caramel flavor, the body is medium structured; smooth and creamy texture; the caramel is just a bit too dark for me, and it takes some time before finding the required sweetness; but the smoke presence is lovely as usual, for Aecht Schlenkerla beers. Chocolatey and smokey.

2010-02-24, draught at Ølbaren, Copenhagen, 8-5-8-5-16=42
Brown color; big creamy head. Lovely smoke aroma, with more sausages than a Hummel-Bräu tasted at the same time. Medium body strength, but the mouthfeel is quite round, it has a very good caramel flavor, moderate sweetness, an increased accent of roasted malt at the end, and a discrete smoke presence. Balanced. Not as astonishing as their Urbock, but still an excellent beer.

2009-03-17, draught at Ølbaren, Copenhagen, 9-5-8-4-16=42
Dark amber color; big creamy head. Intense smoky aroma, persistent, with impressions of sausages and fireplace in waves, even a light sourness typical of smoked sausages; creamy; wonderful. It has a medium-lean body, with good creamy caramel flavor, but less sweet than I like, and with a dark chocolate touch; of course, with a good smoke presence. The final is just a bit harsh (the roasted malt, roasted nuts), very bitter (maybe too much), and not sweet enough. Overall, an excellent beer, but I appreciate less roasted ones.