On Tap: pours a dark and murky brown color with a large white head. Aroma is smoky and of toasted malt. Taste was overwhelminly smoky, followed by some fruitiness and malt. Not one of my favortie styles, but not bad overall.

Tap at brew pub: Clear dark amber color with a soft white head. Lacing was spread all over the glass towards the top and diminished as it went down. Among the smoky aromas were cardboard, dust and a mild metallic scent. The brew has a semi-sweet, malty taste with a small amount of astringent bitterness. The feel is thin and watery. Ok, but nothing I want to freak out about.

Interesting bit of bacon fat in the aroma, melds in with the smokiness of the bar. There is also some very light and subtle fruitiness, like perhaps a peach flavor, with some beefy spicy caramel malts that blends together incompletely like poil and water, but easy to drink nonetheless, but kind of a trainwreck.

Pellucid mahogany color; fruity apple and citrus nose; somewhat thin body balanced with a light spicy hopping and a snappy finish; smoked Granny Smith apples, oh yea……acetalhyde throughout this beer; not too bad, but rather strange and I don’t believe will ever have this again

Pours a dark amber color with a huge retentive white head that lasted for the whole beer. The nose is lightly smoky, a bit like jerky with a little fruity hops and caramel malt notes. Odd. The flavor is again weird with a smoked meat flavor that blends very differently with the hops and sweet body. Decent finish and a chewy body. Easy drinking rauchbier but not that good of flavors, a weird smokiness that doesn’t complement the base style.