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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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Clear dark brown with huge, firm, lasting, foamy, beige head. Decent smoke aroma, surely some flavours stay stuck in the head. Taste is also smokey, slightly sweet chocolately dark malt notes. Fizzy carbonation takes away much of the taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2012
at 16:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Beers of Europe, consumed at ’Chill in the Garden’, Kidlington, Oxon Saturday 4th August 2012 Dark brown with a beige head in fact this a real gusher, it foams and foams, seems very keen to depart the bottle. There are a couple of dark flecks in and amongst the huge pillow of beige foaminess. Smokey nose, but not as sausage smokey as a Scherlenka. Decent smokiness in mouth along with some tangy sour liqourice and dark bitter chocolate. Really nice smokey porter, but that said this is not the best that i’ve had from this brewery. A7 A5 T8 P4 Ov16 4.0
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2012
at 02:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle
Batch 55, BBE Dec 13 - Pours dark brown, almost black with a massive foamy head. Strange aroma of tar, smoke, burnt leather, ash, sour berries and yeast. Taste is quite unique and a bit strange with some roasted malts mixed with a lot of berries and smoked notes with burnt leather and hints of sour berries. FInish is smooth and roasty with some smoked notes. Unbalanced and quite messy.
Batch 55, BBE Dec 13 - Pours dark brown, almost black with a massive foamy head. Strange aroma of tar, smoke, burnt leather, ash, sour berries and yeast. Taste is quite unique and a bit strange with some roasted malts mixed with a lot of berries and smoked notes with burnt leather and hints of sour berries. FInish is smooth and roasty with some smoked notes. Unbalanced and quite messy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2012
at 03:29
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
50 cl bottle @ home. Batch #55: BBE 12/2013
Lots of foaming when pouring. Really weird aroma for a smoked porter; slightly sweet with hay, hints of peat, fruits and vegetables. Flavour has vanilla, peat, some ash and salty licorice. Also some vegetable‐like savor I find hard to describe. Very foamy palate. At the end of the glass this started to feel a bit sour and contaminated.
Weird and not good. I wonder if the bottle was ok?
Lots of foaming when pouring. Really weird aroma for a smoked porter; slightly sweet with hay, hints of peat, fruits and vegetables. Flavour has vanilla, peat, some ash and salty licorice. Also some vegetable‐like savor I find hard to describe. Very foamy palate. At the end of the glass this started to feel a bit sour and contaminated.
Weird and not good. I wonder if the bottle was ok?
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2012
at 06:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Purchased at Hop City in Altanta, GA; enjoyed in my hotel room while getting some work done. Appearance is black with a dark brown glow near the rim of the glass, creamy off white/tan head that laces to the glass. Aroma of rich chocolate, nuts, bit of lactose, very very light smoke, smells nice but more like a stout. Taste gives off a little more smoke but I wouldn’t call this a smoked porter, more like a robust light stout? It’s pretty damn good regardless, happy to have tried it.
Tried
on 17 Jul 2012
at 17:13
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Bottle, 0.5 l, at Oluttupa Viisi Penniä, 20120606) The beer poured almost black and clear. Its head was quite large and light brown. Aroma had smoke, tar, roasted malts and liquorice. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were smoke, tar, smoked ham, roasted malts, sweetness, hops and bitterness. Aftertaste was roasty, burnt, smoky and bitter. The smokedness was very strong but it worked quite well but the underlying beer could have been a bit more flavourful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2012
at 04:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled@Beer Hunters, Pori. More or less black colour, small off-white head. Aroma is smoked malts, some mild wooden notes along with sweet maltyness. Flavour is toasted malts, some caramel, wooden notes as well a some mild coffee notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2012
at 23:05
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 3
Bottle.Black colour with large fluffy head.Aroma is smoked and rosted with taste of tar and oliy,feels unbalanced and odd taste with good malty flavor but overall noy that good i guess.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2012
at 07:13
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottled 500ml (Beer Hunters)
Dark brown color, big cloudy beige-brown head. Wet wood, smoke in the aroma. Medium-bodied. Cellary flavor, wood, light smoke and tar. Crisp carbonation. Is this in good condition? Tastes like some odd Danish brew.
Dark brown color, big cloudy beige-brown head. Wet wood, smoke in the aroma. Medium-bodied. Cellary flavor, wood, light smoke and tar. Crisp carbonation. Is this in good condition? Tastes like some odd Danish brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2012
at 13:44
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle. Huge creamy head with excellent duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are rich roast malt, milk chocolate, smoke, licorice and hops. Nice and smooth with a very oily palate. Great beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2012
at 15:00