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Aecht Schlenkerla Fastenbier

Score
99100
OVERALLStyle
Brewed by Brauerei Heller
Style: Smoked
Bamberg, Germany

bottling
unknown

on tap
common

Broad Distribution

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RATINGS: 233   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.9   SEASONAL: Spring   EST. CALORIES: 165   ABV: 5.5%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
The Original Schlenkerla Lentbeer is an unfiltered smokebeer, brewed according to the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516. Bottom-fermenting yeast gives the reddish brown lentbeer a natural cloudiness. Its smokey aroma is already noticeable in the smell, combined with a fine hoppy note. In the drink the fullbodied, highly drinkable lentbeer shows its strong malty flavour, rounded up with the smokey taste and a light bitterness. Due to the nourishing yeast, the Original Schlenkerla Lentbeer has the "Brotzeit already included" (German word for afternoon snack). Served / Sold: - Only during lent from Ash Wednesday to Easter - Only from the wooden keg at the Schlenkerla Data: Original Gravity: 14.5% Alcohol: 5.5% EBU: 32


3.7
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
MadIndian (1731) - Levittown, Pennsylvania, USA - JAN 25, 2012
This is the best smoked beer I have had. A big aroma of smoke and peat. The Mild flavors are bread, fruit, mild chocolate, wood and caramel. The strong flavors are smoke, flame and meat. It was really blended well.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
Kristall-König (1552) - Oldenburg, GERMANY - SEP 23, 2011
Im Geruch rauchig mit leichtem Malzton. Süßmalziger Antrunk mit leichter Rauchnote. Mittelstück stärker buchenholzrauchig mit malzigem Oberton. Abgangs dann schwächer im Rauch, schokoladenmalzig. Echt gut. Festival der Bierkulturen, Köln - 14.05.2011

4.1
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 17/20
joeneugs (1423) - Livermore, California, USA - AUG 24, 2011
On tap at Beer Revolution. It pours a murky reddish brown with a small tan head. The aroma is wonderful with salted meats, smoked wood and brown sugar. The flavor is incredibly smoky and smooth with hints of spicy wood. It has a fairly light body with low carbonation. Pretty dry finish, but with a tad of balancing sweetness. Somehow I could drink pint after pint of this and not grow tired of it despite the intense flavor. That’s the beauty of this beer.

4
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
tkrjukoff (2236) - SWEDEN - AUG 20, 2011
Pours clear mahogany with a huge tanned head leaving fine lacing. Aroma is smokey, sweet, malty, leather, fruity; very nice. Flavor is smokey like salty salami, fruity, sweet and nicely bitter. Yet quite dry. Finishes dry and bitter.

3.5
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
BMan1113VR (6143) - Los Angeles, California, USA - AUG 18, 2011
On tap. Pours with a clear amber-bronze hued body with a just off-white head. Aromas are smokey, bacon, chlorophenols (rubber), malty, melanoidin, maple, grainy and cereal. Flavors are malty, nearly peat medicinal smoke. Smokey, bacon, malty, cereal, smoked salmon. Medium bubbles, lively. Finishes on the crisper side of things. I think this is a good smoked beer, but I do not like smoke beers, and that said it is not one of the best that I have had.

4.2
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 17/20
JorisPPattyn (6424) - Antwerpen, BELGIUM - AUG 13, 2011
Draught Good, very fine & dense light-greige head, textbook lace over mahogany clear beer. Smoked ham jumping out of the glass, superbly inviting, inciting hunger, aromas. Smoked & coloured malts. Seems lighter in flavour than the Märzen? Smoked, faintly phenolic and a bit of real saltiness (as from fruits de mer) and bready, sweeter than the Märzen. LIght(er), faintly watery MF but extremely clean palate despite the phenols. All the same, excellent. How they had it out of season?

4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 17/20
queenholly (230) - South Whitley, Indiana, USA - AUG 11, 2011
On tap at Trion Tavern. Smoke, dark fruit and malt aroma. Brown with a small white head. Smoky roasted malt flavor. I really love smoked beers, and this is a good one.

4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 17/20
bb (4577) - Alamo, California, USA - AUG 9, 2011
Draft. Rich amber beer with a whitish head. Nice smoke aroma with bacon and salt. Smoke and bacon flavor with malt. Medium bodied. Smoke and bacon lingers with malt.


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