Calumet
Bièropholie in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular|
Score
7.52
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CloakedDagger (37568) reviewed Calumet from Bièropholie 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle 34,1 cl) Pours completely black and opaque with a thick, beige head. Burned, lightly smoked aromas. Fairly full body with lots of burned malt and distinct, baconish, smoked accents. Dry, ashy finish. 270106
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed Calumet from Bièropholie 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
[Vintage 2004, sampled September 2005] A pitch black beer with a huge brown head. The aroma is very sweet with notes of coffee and chocolate, but also a hint of some kind of cleaner - I wonder if it is the smoked malt? The flavor is sweet and to begin with quite straight down the road malty with only light notes of roastyness, but it grows on You in the aftertaste coming out with notes of the smoked malt, coffe, chocolate, but also some acidity. The aftertaste lingers for a long time with smoked wood and roasted malt, but still with the acidic note lingering in the background. I’m not that crazy about the acidic note, but otherwise this is a really nice beer.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Calumet from Bièropholie 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Ahh, calumet at last. 2004 bottle consumed 3/6/05. Served lightly chilled in a tulip. Deep mahogany brown color to the body with a small amount of tan head, some retention. Some dark burgundy highlights can be seen on the edges when held to the light. Aroma of hickory, light bacon and charred fish, though it is not as strong as that makes it sound, allowing for a bit of bitter roast and black chocolate to creep in. Flavor retains the smokiness seen in the aroma (it "keeps it real" so to speak), and there is plenty of saltiness and dry chocolate. Ripe blackberries and dark raspberries are noted on the finish, with a lingering note of hickory smoke that is highly pleasant. The body was the weak point, in my sample, starting out a bit too carbonated and bubbly, with some thinning on the end. But as the beer approaches room temperature, the smoke and roast come forth and my qualms with the body are more or less forgotten. As far as flavor is concerned, this is the best smoked porter I’ve had, not being too smokey, but yet not making you hunt for the smoke either. If they could just work on getting a little more malt chewiness and thickness of body, it would be phenomenal, IMHO. Perhaps I need to try a fresher sample, which I am looking forward to doing in the future. 8/4/8/3/15
2005 draught at MondialHoly crap. This is one of the best beers I’ve ever had. Rich, thick, balanced smokiness, with pure luscious milk chocolate and mild roast. Touch of green hops flavor and a chewy, rich mouthfeel. Deep and dark, opaque with a big, creamy head. 8/5/9/5/18
omhper (45152) reviewed Calumet from Bièropholie 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled (2004 vintage) Very black. Arome of tarry coffee and licorice. Medium bodied with rounded mouthfeel, faitrly sweet. Chocoalte and light smokiness. Not very firm.
Bottled (2003 vintage tasted in Nov 2004) Very black. Tarry lemon aroma with some coffee. Roasty and suprosingly light bodied with somewhat fizzy mouthfeel. Licorice and coffee is there, as is some smoke. Has not gained from aging, and is probably starting to go downhill. (5/4/6/3/11/2.9)
Silphium (4309) reviewed Calumet from Bièropholie 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Deep brown body with red highlights, thin tan head. Strong smokehouse aroma with a touch of chocolate. Roasted malts and dry chocolate barely peek through the intense smoked flavor. Slight tartness in the finish. This hit the spot. Thanks Stephen (tiggmtl) for the bottle!
NotABeerProfessor (3582) reviewed Calumet from Bièropholie 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Opaque dark brown, medium fading tannish head. Rich aroma: astringent and husky, smoky/ashy, oaky, roasted. Smoke is less apparent in the initial flavor, instead a rounded husky roasted malt sits big up front. Surprisingly light body, and light acrid ashy finish. Smoke lingers long on the palate. A smoked baltic porter?
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Calumet from Bièropholie 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Brewed at Le Chaudron) Black beer; dark brown, mixed-bubbles head, good carbonation. Moccha, ink, walnuts and hazelnuts (or hazelnut chocolate), freshly sawn hardboard in the nose. Bitter-sweet chocolate, nutty and tobacco flavours but not really smoked as a Rauchbier. Faint sourish finish, nice touch for the balance. Typical for a porter/stout, the "chewy" factor is much higher than the probable apparent gravity. Slight but notable dry-out effect. A very nice, balanced porter. Unless it’s for the smoked factor, I cannot dig why René H. is so weary of ’old’ ratings. I confess as to have tasted a ’gold cap’. It is a porter - not a smoked beer, and I like it. Again thanks to MartinT and Rastacouere.
TimE (11144) reviewed Calumet from Bièropholie 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Allows very little light to escape its opaqeness that is topped with a light brown head. The nose is of a freshly extinguished fire pit, complemented with notes of coffee and dark chocolate, while the medium – full body is of smoked meat, chocolate, peaty, and smoky dark chocolate ending. Wonderful, if you love smoked malt beverages. Damn I shoulda posted this rating earlier as I sampled this in mid April 2003 and could have been one of the first to rate doh!!
Boutip (9839) reviewed Calumet from Bièropholie 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Deep black brew with a very strong and distinctive smoke taste. Roated coffee taste wioth a light bitterness taste at the end. The smoke taste is little too present for my taste but overall a good beer. Merci Bièropholie for trying something different.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Calumet from Bièropholie 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Almost fully black...dark brown with nice ruby highlights when held up to a light. Thin light brown head tops the beer nicely. Strong smoked essence with a bit of tobacco, roasted malt as well. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong smokey flavour with a good roasted malt characteristic. Overall, a good beer, definately worth a try! I sampled this beer at Joey_Capps' on 13-September-2003 in Hamilton, Ontario.