Fumè du Sanglier

Draught at BQ, Milan. Black, minimal head. Smoke tar aroma. Light-medium boided, bordering to tart with lots of licorice and beechwood smoke.Mild tarry lemon leads to a salty finish. Interesting stuff indeed.

Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of fiulijn. Pours completely opaque black with a small light brown head. Distinct fat Bamberg smoke in the nose. Medium body, a little low in carbonation, chocolate malts again with a distinct smokiness. The finish is dry with a subdued bitterness. 260309

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75 cL bottle, courtesy of fiulijn. Pours pitch black brown with a small chocolate brown head. Dry malty, chocolate and smoked aroma. Dry chocolate and smoked flavoured. Dry malty flavoured. Smoked finished. Smooth malty flavoured.

The malt is smoked by the brewery using beech wood.

2009-03-26, bottle, 8-4-7-3-15=37
Black color; small head. Very nice aroma of smoke, some paper, wood; very nice. Medium body, in the bottle it shows more roasted malt and coffee than chocolate; nice delicate smoke, some liquorice, correct bitterness, with the feeling getting drier at the end. Very good.

2009-03-21, draught at IBF 2009, Milan, 8-4-7-4-15=38
Color is almost black. Wonderful aroma, deep chocolate, smoke, ashes, even traces of vanilla, roasted malt, lightly vinous. Medium body, good, dry, chocolate flavor, correct bitterness. Original (for mixing chocolate and smoke), very good.