Bronze-gold colour. The aroma is rich, with beech smoke dominating. The body is smooth, with Bambergian-style balance...tons of smoke with a fairly sweet caramel underpinning.

Draught at Falling Rock. Hazy orange coloured with a small white head. Malty aroma of caramel with notes of rye bread and smoke. Smoky flavour of caramel, malts and bacon. Smoky finish.

Good generous creamy and frothy off-white head mounts the straw-amber body. Toasted caramel and bready malts offer most of the aromatic substance besides overwhelming peachiness. Restricted bamberg smokiness, lightly oaky perhaps, but globally undefined, unpolished and the palate is definitely too citric for its own good. Light bodied, fair carbonation.

Bottle... <b>GIABMISGFAB</b>... Clear golden lager with a large, frothy, off-white head. Nice beechwood smoke aroma with undertones of biscuit and toffee. Light to medium-bodied with lively carbonation. Moderately sweet amber and pale malts with low bitterness. Thin and watery, but nice smoked flavor. Short, watery finish. <b>Kudos to jayg for providing this rauchbier!</b>

<i> Draught </i> Pale gold, little white head. Instead of smoked whatever, rubber, faint fishy, maybe smoked nuts or shellfish. Corn &#40;cooked&#41; but not DMS, very, very light smokiness. Grain backgrouns, retronasal more smoked. Light MF, but nowhere empty. Surprising, but maybe a good introduction to the style? No danger for the Bamberg breweries, certainly...