Urbock
(has 3 batches)

Draught @ Fermentoren, Aarhus. Pours dark brown with a creamy offwhite head, lacings. Aroma of malt, caramel, smoke, smoked meat, sausages, bacon. Flavor is light sweet, sokey, malt, caramel, saugages, bacon, wood smoke. Medium body, average carbonation, light dry finish. 131115

Treated as a rauchbier, this was poured into a mug.
The appearance was a semi-hazy to dark brown color with an off white foamy head that dissipated within less than thirty seconds yet still leaving a soft level cap of a white head with just a tad of lacing roaming around in a messy sort of way.
The smell started off with sweet honey blending with subtle smoke and bringing in a slight meatiness (more so like a glazed ham).
The taste was mainly the same sweet flavor from the aroma encompassing a subtle bacon derivative sliding smoothly into the aftertaste and leading on into a sticky finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs fairly light allowing the meatiness to blend more with the sweetness thus creating a stickiness on my tongue. But, it’s a good stickiness.
Overall, I say this was a wonderful rauchbier that I would have again.

Bottle at home, 9th July 15. Pours copper in colour, aroma is smoky barbecue, slight coffee, taste is slick smoke, caramel, vanilla, slight spice, sweet smokey caramel. Nice meaty smoked beast

Dark brown color with an off-white head with medium retention. Aroma has notes of smoke, burnt caramel and toasted malts. Flavor is wooden, toasty, slightly bittery with smoky notes. Creamy and smooth on palate with toasted malts and burnt wooden notes.

500 ml bottle. Pours a clear, dark reddish brown with a medium, short lived, beige head. Sweet roasted malt aroma with a nice smoky note. Sweet roasted malt flavour with caramel, oak and a smoky, dry, bitter finish. Full body with an oily texture and soft carbonation. Nice and well balanced.

Im Glas gewohnt dunkel, schöner Schaum, der im Shaker als kleiner Firn überbleibt. In der Nase, jaaa, Räucherschinken, muss man halt mögen, ich bekommt gleich Lust auf ne fränkische Brotzeitplatte. Im Trunk ist der Schinken nicht mehr so dominant, das Rauch,als setzt sich aber deutlich fort. Leichte Süße, dann deutlich bitter, langer Abgang, Holz, etwas Alkohol. Die wichtigste Mahlzeit des Tages.

Bottle. A- Smoke, woody, bacon, meat. A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, light brown head. T- Smoke, bacon, ham. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, meaty finish. O- Kind of what I was expecting. A ton of smoke and that meaty umami flavor. Like drinking a ham brine but not in a bad way. Certainly an interesting beer and not my favorite but it’s an easy beer to drink.

Bottle from The Beerhive. Clear mahogany body with a thick beige head. Nice lacing. Unusual aroma of smoked cheese, ham, stewed tea and grilled mushroom. Flavour of smoked malts, toffee, wood and a peppery finish. Medium body with an oily texture. Soft fizz. Very smoky and complex.

Butelka 0.5l (BB 07.2018). Piwo klarowne o ciemno-brązowej barwie z drobną, o kremowej konsystencji, pianie w kolorze ecru, która opadając ładnie ozdabia ścianki szkła. Aromat intensywny, wędzony, szynkowy, bardzo wyraźny, spycha na dalszy plan wszystkie inne nuty. Słodowe w smaku z mocną, nutą szynkowej wędzonki. Piwo średnio-pełne, nieco zbyt wysoko nasycone, niemniej bardzo dobry przykład piwa wędzonego.