Uiltje Brewing Co. Beech Smoked Bock

Beech Smoked Bock

 

Uiltje Brewing Co. in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Collab with: La Quince Brewery
  Smoked / Rauchbier Special Out of Production
Score
6.95
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 19
We finally met our doppelganger in Madrid. Every bit our brewing wild child equal, with an owl mascot just lkike our own, we simply had to meet up.. A collaboration with La Quince was a no-brainer, but we agreed it had to be unorthodox and weird. You know, smart, like our owls. This beech smoked-bock is our big idea. A medium-bodied bock with hints of vanilla and caramel.
This one-off's subtle smokiness is what makes it so cool! That's what happens when you ferment European hops on chips of beech wood. Hey Madrileños, we had a frickin' blast!! Next time ate your place!
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

From tap at Bierfestival Groningen 2017. Aroma is smoked malt, caramel, and beechwood. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Body is medium. Nice and refined Smoked Bock, a fine example of the style.

Tried from Draft on 10 Feb 2025 at 04:47


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tap @ NBFD. Dark amber color, Medium bodied. Soft malt and beechwood in the aroma. Malty yet dry beechwood flavor. I miss the smoked ham a bit.

Tried from Draft on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:05


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at Kantien, a collab of Uiltje with La Quince apparently; smoked Bock beer, I assume with malt smoked over a beechwood fire? Regularly shaped, thick and very densely creamy, 'membrane'-lacing, stable, off-white head, hazy dark chestnut brown colour with warm bronze hue. Aroma is indeed mostly centered around the smokiness, smoked bacon of sausages hits the nose, followed by impressions of hazelnuts, dried peach, cloves, nutmeg, cold tea, green peppercorns, parsley. Dried fruits in the onset, peach, vague fig, only restrainedly sweetish with a sourish edge; medium carbo, finely tingling, smooth and bit resiny mouthfeel with thin metallic aspects to it. Nutty malt body, bit bready, with a lot of smoked meat-like smokiness as expected, matching well with a herbal hop bitterness in the tail; the herbal aspect as well as that metallic side effect linger a bit after swallowing. Interesting, but to be honest, I did expect more from anything involving Uiltje...

Tried from Bottle on 27 Nov 2017 at 03:58


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Imported from my RateBeer account as Uiltje / La Quince Beech Smoked Bock (by Uiltje Brewing Co.):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5

15/VIII/17 - 33cl bottle @ Help-Me-Get-to-10K-In-Time-Tasting 2 (home) - BB: 16/III/18 (2017-1236) Thanks to Tinus for sharing the bottle!

Clear red to red brown beer, small creamy beige to yellow head, bit adhesive. Aroma: soft smoke, caramel, sweet, some more camp fire on warming up. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: nice smoky start, banana, little sweet, caramel, soft banana, hoppy. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, smoky, banana peel.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2017 at 18:03


7.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled. An amber beer with a huge yellowish head. The aroma has notes of bacon, beech wood smoke, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, bacon, and beech wood smoke, leading to a dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2017 at 09:02


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

33 cl bottle. Pours clear and golden amber with a huge tan head. Aroma is smoked and slight peated. Dry, smoked and peated. Lingering dry malty finish.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2017 at 07:07


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from drankgigant.nl. Brown colour, white foam. Nose of caramel, smoke, dried fruit. Taste is rather thin, smoke, bit metallic. Ok, nothing exceptional.

Tried from Bottle on 17 May 2017 at 15:12


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle at Uiltje. Aroma of smoke, caramel and some ripe fruit. Taste has soft smoke, ripe fruit, raisin, caramel and malt. Simple, but nice for what it is.

Tried from Bottle on 07 May 2017 at 04:59


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Süßlich rauchiger Beginn. Trocken getreidig, weich werdend. Die Malzigkeit ist angenehm, später eher torfig als Rauch. Süffig, kurzer wässriger Nachhall. 8/9/8/8//8

Tried on 13 Apr 2017 at 12:23


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On Tap @Fical 2017, La Felguera. 08/04/17 Color ambarino oscuro, corona de espuma beige, aromas ahumados seguidos de notas a malta, el sabor es a caramelo con fondo ahumado y cuerpo medio.

Tried from Draft on 08 Apr 2017 at 04:13