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

Cask gravity @ 1st BBF De Molen. What an excellent beer!," Amber color. Smoked ham in the aroma. Full bodied. Loads of peaty malt, smoke and smoked sausage in the flavor. Slightly alcoholc. Long smoky aftertaste with a hint of licorice.

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

RBESG 19 Grand Tasting. FOR MICHAEL! Murky brown-red-orange taste, white head. Smoke and beans in the aroma? Sweet smokey taste, bacon and beans with a bitter hoppiness. Sadly, didn't work with me.

RB backlog. Roasty breadcrust, strawberry, grains, blackberry, caramel sauce. Medium to sticky sweetness, mineralic, medium bitterness. Thick round body, decent, laid back carbonation. Tasty. Thanks SinH4.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Rauchbier (a smoked Doppelbock in this case) by – to me – one of Germany’s most exciting new breweries, bottle from Geers near Ghent. Foamy, creamy, frothy, egg-white, stable head over a hazy bronze-tinged deep orange beer with ruddy-coppery tinge. Aroma of smoked bacon, wet cigarette tobacco, sundried tomatoes, biscuit, dried mango, bitter honey, candied apple, plum brandy, almond. Sweet onset with fig, candied cherry and peardrop aspects, medium carbonation, smooth and oily, full body, bit ‘glueish’ even. Full caramelly, biscuity malt body, sweetish but the sweetness quickly countered by a very outspoken smokiness, smoked meat and even tobacco jumping to mind, herbal hop note, with still that rounded, luscious malt sweetness remaining. The smokiness does linger in the end, with a touch of warming but generally well-hidden alcohol rounding things off. A very interesting strong Rauchbier indeed, combining the full, sweet, rounded, generous maltiness of a (pale) Doppelbock with the meaty punchiness of the smoked malt. Delicious smoked Gänstaller beer once again!

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Medium, very dense, fine & regular yellow head over red-amber beer. Phenolic, tarry nose, tarred poles, smoked ham etc. Lightly sweetish, very phenolic character; smoked mackerel, light but present mineral/salty flavour. Hint at waffle syrup, maltsugar. Very oily-slick, well-bodied, light alcoholheat, mild carbonation. Aftertaste has just a hint at acidity. Quite balanced, if outspoken phenolic Rauchbock. Like it.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Malty smoked aroma and taste, berries fruit, caramel, light to medium sweet and bitter, well hidden alcohol. Full body, malty smoked bitter sweet finish. Perfectly ballanced. Very good.

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

Bottle, courtesy of Mister_Li, many thanks! Pours unclear brown. Aroma is bacon, smoke, yet also lots of sausage spices and caramel. Body is heavy and strong, super sweet and sugar, with a decent carbonation and smoke flavours. Strongly bitter and bocky. A bit too much on the sugary side for me.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

05-11-18 // bottle shared, from Petit Belge Wiesbaden. Absacker. Unclear amber golden. Small white head. Schinken smoke nose. Strong body. Very sweet malty. Smoky Barleywine like. Peat and toffee. Starkes Teil!

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

Bottle. Dark amber with small tan head. Aroma of malt, dried fruits, caramel, smoke. Taste, malt, caramel, dried fruits, biscuts, smoke. ALcohol is well hidden. Good.

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

Pours very dark brown, unclear, caramelly. Nearly no head, looks very flat. Smell is smoked, but refined, almost sharp ( like metallic). Not as bombastic as other smoked's. Taste is sharp, smoked, very fleshy, good body, very remote bitter touch. Ham, very much so. Balanced brew. Unfortunately, I'll never be the biggest smoke fan. I have to admit this is a great brew tho.