The Big Smoke
8 Wired Brewing in Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Porter - Smoked Regular|
Score
7.14
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Now what is this? A smoked beer?? It really isn’t as crazy as it sounds. 250 years ago virtually all beers were smoked (it’s true, Google it!), but with the dawning of the industrial revolution most of the smoke lifted. However, in the German town of Bamberg the flame has quite literally been kept alive and to this day the town’s brewers produce world renowned beers brewed with their own special rauchmalz (beechwood smoked malt).
We’ve taken our best porter recipe and added a good measure of that same Bamberg Rauchmalz. The smoke mingles beautifully with the rich, dark roasted chocolate flavours of the porter without being overpowering. Although it pairs extremely well with smoked seafood, barbeques, strong cheeses and hearty stews, its food friendliness isn’t limited to savouries; chocolate and caramel based deserts are great companions too! Trust us; it really isn’t as crazy as it sounds.
We’ve taken our best porter recipe and added a good measure of that same Bamberg Rauchmalz. The smoke mingles beautifully with the rich, dark roasted chocolate flavours of the porter without being overpowering. Although it pairs extremely well with smoked seafood, barbeques, strong cheeses and hearty stews, its food friendliness isn’t limited to savouries; chocolate and caramel based deserts are great companions too! Trust us; it really isn’t as crazy as it sounds.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 50cl partagée avec Tomaz. Brune, col épais moyen café au lait, léger doré au verre. Arôme malté fumé, of course, ce dernier restant assez subtile mais efficace. Note anisée, malt grillé et cara. Le houblon s’immisce procurant qcq notes fruitées. Ce n’est pas spécialement un bombe au niveau du fumé, mais le but est clairement atteint et de belle manière. Palais est malté, cara-pâle, fumé avec une point e de caramel. le fumé reste très correcte et parcimonieux sans pour cela totalement dominer. Fruité noir moyen; raisin, cerise noire. Brève note surette avec encore une fois ce ôté anisé qui ressort de manière subtile. Le côté grains malté est bien là, fumé accompagné d’une touche de café au lait. Fini sec sur un petit profil fruité avec ici encore une note surette-aigre. Amertume est aussi là ajoutant un léger citronné.
Tried
on 10 Sep 2013
at 12:39
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Pours black with a fading head.Heavy smoke on the aroma, with nice smoked ham and campfire notes. Also caramel, soft roast and sweet bready malt.Lots of smoke as a flavour too. More roasted malt presence though, along with a little sweet malt underneath. Also some soft piny and earthy hops.Could use more carbonation.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2013
at 20:01
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
dark brown color. Huge roasty character and subtle smokey nose. Not overly smokey in the nose. The mouth has a wonderful roasty character with dark fruit and smoke. Superbly balanced. Very enjoyable mouth feel with moderately aggressive finish. Nice
Tried
on 24 Oct 2012
at 06:55
2.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 2
500 ml bottle. Gusher. Pours a very dark brown, almost black with huge head. Thick smoke aroma with underlying roasted malts. Overkill on the smoke. Nothing but burnt wood and garbage to the taste ruining the underlying beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2012
at 20:30
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle purchased at Barley Wine in Cpenhagen. Major gusher when opened several months later. Aroma had an off note that was stronger than the smoke. Same with the taste. Perhaps a bad batch. Perhaps did not survive shipping to the Nordic countries ( judging from similar recent reviews out of Norway). A big disappointment as I had saved to pair with slow cooked pork BBQ prepared over pecan and apple wood. Probably would have been a perfect pairing if the beer had been as good as most of the other raters suggest.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2012
at 05:41