Advent Calendar: pours solid brown with a tan head. Aroma is somewhat smokey and rather malty. It does not have the veritable sausage smell of Aecht Schenkerla (the marzen I sampled again yesterday again... yum good times). Solid malty and smoky taste. Low bitterness. It is not bad.

Crisp and deep brown coloured body with a muddied glow of pure brown and a rich, super frothy, four to five centimetre tall rich brown head on top. Aroma of pure malt, nuts, earth and a touch of peat and bitterness from the alcohol. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong grainy and malty flavours at first with a big nutty and peaty astringency with a subdued alcohol and peppery kick towards the end, all with a nice dry finish. Aftertaste shows the nutty and very peaty flavours far more than anything else, but a light sweetness from some fruits, a touch of caramelised sugars and a little subdued yeastie flavour shows through, but this is sort of all-over-the-map, and also definitely not even close to what a true rauch should be like - there is nothing smoked here aside from the faintest bit of peat. Overall, not such a great beer - definitely passable had it not been included in the Advent Calendar! I sampled this 500 mL can as Day Nine [of twenty-four] of the 2018 Christmas Advent Calendar, purchased from Costco in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 30-September-2018 for US$59,99/twenty-four, sampled at my house here in Washington on 09-December-2018.

Can, best before May 2020, clearly labeled as brewed at H. Egerer - I guess that's just where the cans are brewed?
Dark maple with more drab, almost olivine-tinted hues throughout. Clear with a beige head atop that recedes steadily to a ring.
An interesting rauchbier; it smells neither meaty (bacon, salt, ham) nor terribly campfire/woodsmoke-like. More in the heavy black pepper range with ash and very minor char but yet not iodine or peat-like either. Pretty straightforward rauch malt in a more bock-like base with caramel, treacle, molasses and toffee behind it, malty, yet not sugary. I don't get any flaws here either, which is surprising because H. Egerer looks to be a terrible brewery.
In the mouth it's malty, sweet and full of caramel, molasses and maple notes with strong, peppery smokiness throughout. It doesn't seem underattenuated, though maybe given its 4.8% stature, it is. Yet the smoke and caramel character balance each other pretty well and there is some hop bitterness, though no flavor, on the finish. Carbonation is moderate, surprisingly engaging given that this is almost certainly filtered and force carbed. Nothing mind-blowing here, but it's a reasonable rauchbier.

Wonderfully dark and smokey, but not too much roast. Great body and nice complexity .Craft beer store dresden.

At Internationales Berliner Bierfestival 2018. Dark amber with a small head. Aroma and taste of smoke, wood and ham. An ok one.

33cl bottle from dunklermessias, my Secret Santa 2017. 5.0%. Bbe 01.04.18. Poured dark brown color with a thin white head. Smoky, hint of licorice and sweet malts. Smoke, mild peat, malts, light hops. Nice bodied.

16 ounce can. Pours a dark amber color with a medium white head. A light sweet malty nose. Maybe a bit of smoke. Sweet toast, corn, light smoke. OK.

16oz can pours out brown topped with a tan head. Nose is smoke toast malts and some spice. Taste is more of the spice roast malts smoke.