The Tap Cold Smolder

Brewed by Haverhill Brewery Inc / The Tap
Style: Smoked
Haverhill, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Glowing golden pour with a slight offwhite filmy head. Aroma is sweet grains, a flutter of smoke, and some earthy herbaceous notes. Slippery and lightly drying on the tongue, the flavor is that of an earthy lager with lingering malty sweetness and a whisper of smoke. Pretty good + Great price = Quite good.

From the 22 fl. oz. bottled version. The pour is golden yellow with a white fizzy head. It looks like an American Pale. The aroma is subtle and played down. I was hoping for more smoke in a smoke lager. But I got pale malts, sugar, and crisp hops. The body was light to medium. The taste is a step up from the aroma with a slightly more smoky feel and a lingering thin bitterness. It reminded me more of a pilsner.

on tap-white-hazy yellow. A-sweet lt malt-smoke. T-smoke, sweet lt malt. 3.4

Pours clear gold into a snifter. Bright white head with little retention recedes to hug rim. Sweet caramel and mild smoke aromas. Soft with sweet bready malt upfront turning to a mildly smoked earthy bitter lasting finish.