Clear, medium amber / almost brown with a big beautiful head. Very moderated smoke aroma compared to the really heavy Bamberg beers, nevertheless has that powerful almost-peaty burned smell. The flavor is light bacon, refreshing, woody, a bit of hops. The smoke comes through cleanly from nose to aftertaste. One of the only smoke beers I could drink all night.

It’s already getting dark now so it’s a bit hard to see out here on the roof, but this bottle pours something that looks brown and seems clear, with probably an offwhite head. Sweet greasy rauch malts, peat, old tobacco, cola with brown bread and bacon. Moderate sweet and bitter, umami like a marsupilami. Medium body and soft carbonation. Seems a bit more watery than some other rauchbier varieties I’ve tried (at first), I guess that’s a consequence of this lager style rauchbier. My favorites are more malty and resiny, basically greasy like a pig. This is quite up there though. Decent stuff. Can taste the beechwood smoke. Loving it. I mean, is it love? It makes my heart race out of my chest and my head spin on my neck. Does smoked beechwoodresin induce an increased heartrate? YES. This ole redneck dont need no stinkin scientist to prove that jazz. Right here it casts boners in Valerian steel! The rumpathump is strooong in this one. Liquid forest fire man, think of it. Now think of it again and think of it for real! Put it in a bottle. This stuff is like an injection of three eyed raven juice, Ent DNA straight up the vein. But then like evil! Like the gnomes that brew this spirit enhancing juice have tortured the trees, taunted them with fire and wrung em out to drain them from their lifejuice. I can hear trees screaming in gnome tree torture hell while I drink this stuff. Scream beeches, scream! That’s why it’s called Spezial. --- Beer merged from original tick of Spezial Rauchbier Lager on 03 Jul 2019 at 17:21 - Score: 8

Tap at Zum Franziskaner. Pours amber. Aroma and flavor are bacon, smoke, malt, caramel, sugar. Feels slightly bit too thin. Overall: very good.

Keg at Zum Fraziskaner, Stockholm. Well, what a beer. It was dark as mahogany. Smoked but perfectly so for a lager style. Smooth af. Gluggable and yet fulll bodied. Great job. (12/5/19).
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Keg at Akurrat, Stockholm. Wasn't as magical this time. But not unexpected as Zum makes everything taste better. 8.6 to 8.4 on lazy rating. (6/8/25).

[Bamberg 2018] Draft 500 ml. @ Brauerei Spezial. Deep cooked apple red, thick head. Nose is smoked paprika, caramel, bacon, oily candy. Taste is malty caramel, smoked paprika, walnut, toffee, apple, tea, raisin,.. Intensely thick caramel oily, tea oil. Stupendously good.

Vom fass @ brauhaus. Egyik kedvenc bambergóc főzdémmé nőtte ki magát a speciál.