Mac FannyBaw
Against the Grain Brewery in Louisville, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.82
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Truly a ground breaking beer, this Barrel aged Rauchbier was an attempt to replicate the flavors present in Islay Scotch Whiskey. We used Munich malt as a base and added copious amounts of Beechwood and Peat smoked malt, which provides the intense smoky and earthy peat flavors found in Scotch. Then the addition of Alderwood smoked salt lends a crisp brininess that is reminiscent of the sea air in the Islay region of Scotland. Aged in used Angel’s Envy Bourbon Barrels to give an intense caramel, vanilla and whiskey flavor.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled 650ml. -from Svijet Piva Zagreb. Orange coloured, medium sized off-white head, acid and smoke in the nose. Toasted malt, caramel, acidic smoked hot dog and notes of wood with peaty notes in the finish. Unbalanced...yes, somehow likable...yes, but all in all not the stuff for me...
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2015
at 17:35
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep golden colored, strong and lasting white head but with overfoaming. Aroma is strong smoke, peat, oak, vanilla and some fruit. Taste starts very sweet, caramel and fruit, oak and vanilla, peat and smoke in the background constantly and more so in the finish. Some sourness present as well. Alcohol heat in the finish with sweet fruity bourbon aftertaste. Full body. Very interesting beer and combination but it just doesn’t work for me. All that sweetness mixed with all that smoke... and the amount of foaming.
Tried
on 17 Feb 2015
at 13:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Personal contribution. 650 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBWG IV. Procured @ Dranken Geers. Hazy golden, white head. Nose is peat, sour, musty malts. Taste is weird sweet peat, yeast, sugar, hay leading into sourness, thick brett, caramel,.. Yeasty bodied. Doesn’t really work, sweetness is weird, it is too yeasty, flavours don’t work together,…. Etc.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2015
at 09:32
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle @ RBBWG 2015. Slightly unclear orange golden color, virtually no head. Smell and taste malts, lightly smoke, some yellow fruits and caramel, orangepeel, lightly bitter. Don’t get any bourbon in this. Decent body, medium carbonation. Meh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2015
at 03:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Against the Grain Mac FannyBaw (by Against the Grain Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
14/II/15 - 75cl bottle @ RBBWG IV (Beerlover_Ben's place) - BB: n/a (2015-212) Thanks to 77ships (and/or Benzai?) for sharing the bottle!
Little cloudy deep orange to amber beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very very peated, chemical, medicinal, smoky, very cheesy, bit off. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very peated, smoky, medicinal, little sweet, mainly just smoke. Too one-dimensional. Just read the whole set-up of this beer, not even half of all that stuff is coming through. The power of suggestion does a lot, I guess...
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
14/II/15 - 75cl bottle @ RBBWG IV (Beerlover_Ben's place) - BB: n/a (2015-212) Thanks to 77ships (and/or Benzai?) for sharing the bottle!
Little cloudy deep orange to amber beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very very peated, chemical, medicinal, smoky, very cheesy, bit off. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very peated, smoky, medicinal, little sweet, mainly just smoke. Too one-dimensional. Just read the whole set-up of this beer, not even half of all that stuff is coming through. The power of suggestion does a lot, I guess...
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Feb 2015
at 13:13
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle: Pours cloudy orange-gold with a tall, off-white head. Orange, scotch whiskey aroma. Taste is sweet, orange-pulp, vanilla malt, Fruitwood smoke... Huge orange flavour.....smooth scotch heat... Wonderful, wonderful stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2015
at 16:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Botella de 65 cl en el momento en el lúpulo el 07-02-2015. color ámbar anaranjado con espuma blanca que desaparece casi por completo. Aromas maltosos y turbosos con toques ligeramente afrutados y dulces. Sabores también maltosos con gran dosis de ahumados y turba. Sensaciones ligeramente saladas y algo dulces al calentar. Toques de maderas, y algunas vainillas, empapadas en ligero licor de bourbon. Cuerpo medio a intenso con 8.5 vol y buena sensación alcohólica, seca y sobretodo al calentar. Original con buenos toques turbosos y ahumados, bastante buena.
Tried
on 07 Feb 2015
at 17:04
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Lukt: Duft av røykt sild og noe sur duft.
Utseende: Dunkel gulbrun farge.
Skum/kullsyre: Lite skum.
Smak: Smak av røykt sild og noe mer.
Hvor: Nydt@Lokal hjemme tasting hos Bryne
Medium: Flaske@650ml, ABV@8,5%, Når@02.01.2015
Utseende: Dunkel gulbrun farge.
Skum/kullsyre: Lite skum.
Smak: Smak av røykt sild og noe mer.
Hvor: Nydt@Lokal hjemme tasting hos Bryne
Medium: Flaske@650ml, ABV@8,5%, Når@02.01.2015
Tried
on 02 Jan 2015
at 20:08