3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a medium amber with a nice head and good lace. Aroma is obviously lots of smoke, with hints of wood, bbq, and some smoked meats. Flavor is also smoky but has a slight medicinal note which I find in all smoked beers except spezial and schlenkerla. SOme nuttyness and roasted dark malts throughout with a light sweetness and a light bitterness in the end.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nice translucent amber in color with a booming, fluffy tan head in my .5 L boot glass. Aroma produces the customary wafts - bark, goat jerky, hickory, maple syrup oak vats, caramel and butterscotch. A nice, modest smoke profile rolls out the flavor, complimented by ashen, flame licked yellow peppers, rawhide, caramel and a steel twang on the backend. Chicory-roasted dried beef furthers the artistic interpretation. Medium bodied and fairly succinctly balanced, yet carbonation is scaled back perhaps too much. Finishes with beef hide and cedar wood. An enjoyable easy drinker.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle - sampled at the RBESP 2005
Amber, tanned head.
Sweet fatty smoked aroma.
Restrained aromatic smoke in flavor, nut notes.
Lightish body. Ashen aftertaste.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
reddish amber hue w/ beige head. smoke aroma and flavor. rich and malty, tasty.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled: Reddish brown coloured. Clear. Small light brown head. Aroma of bacon chips. Some malts and fruit notes. Flavour as well is quite bacony. Has a rather thin body and is quite watery. Fat malty notes. Has a very smoky end.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours dark amber/orange with a fine though disappearing tan head. Dominating smoke aroma with a tone of bacon chips. Mostly sweet and malty and pretty full. Malty and slightly smokey flavor. Sweet and full with a dry end. Good complexity, I actually like it.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled at RBESG. Dark amber. Rich beechwood style smokey aroma. Medium bodied with soft mouthfeel. Intense smoke flavour accompanied by buttery malt. Unusually bitter finish for a smoke beer. Straightforward and uncomplicated, but for a rauchbier lover like me very enjoyable.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
(Bottle 65 cl) Clear amber colour with a decent, creamy, beige head. Pronounced smoky aroma. Malty with the smoke being all over the flavours too. Kinda light-bodied. 120805
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