Smoked Lager
Crazy Brew in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia 🇷🇺
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular|
Score
6.65
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Светлое лагерное пиво с характерным копченым ароматом и вкусом.
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Smoked Lager from Crazy Brew 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Rauchbier by this young craft brewery in Russia's Ural Federal District, bottle from Geers shared with Craftmember. Loose and bubbly, snow white, thin head quickly reduced to an open ring, over a lightly hazy, orange-tinged peach blonde beer. Aroma of smoked peaches, wet cigarette tobacco, cereals, green banana, apple peel, rubber, white bread dough, brown soap. Sweetish onset but in a very clean way, sme unripe peach perhaps, fizzy carbonation, slick cereally and white-bready malt body with indeed a pinch of smokiness coming in after the middle, eventually even evolving into a waferthin slice of the smoked ham effect I love so much in Bamberg Rauchbier; some light floral hoppiness joins in too, while a certain rubberiness of soapiness remains (as in industrial white bread), ending sweetish and insufficiently characterful. Very well-behaved for a Rauchbier - too much so in fact, I guess Spezial was more a source of inspiration here than Aecht Schlenkerla, but even then this one does not nearly reach Spezial's level of quality and nobility. If I were in Crazy Brew's place, I would have thrown a lot more Rauchmalz into the mash and go for a completely smoked herring-like profile. I truly love a thoroughly smoked Rauchbier, but it is apparently hard to find one like that these days, outside of Aecht Schlenkerla's output...
77ships (14506) reviewed Smoked Lager from Crazy Brew 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thank you for sharing tderoeck & Rubin77. Bottle sampled @ LIBF 2017. Golden clear, small white head. Nose is way too heavy plastic smoke, ash tray. Way too plastic smoked mineral, vegetable syrup, too plastic syrup smoke, vegetable. Plastic smoke syrup.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Smoked Lager from Crazy Brew 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Crazy Brew Smoked Lager (by Crazy Brew):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5
15/IV/18 - sample @ Leuven Innovation Beer Festival (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-434) Thanks to 77ships and Rubin77 for sharing today's beers!
Clear pale golden beer, practically no head. Aroma: pretty smoky, whisky malt, more smoke, camp fire. Pretty nice actually. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: super smoky, some banana, yeast, bit sweet, more peat, smoky. Aftertaste: bit acidic, bitter touch, more smoky, yeast, peated, malty, grains.
Rasmus40 (37007) reviewed Smoked Lager from Crazy Brew 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle @ Leuven Innovation Beer Festival. Clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and smoked meat. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 140418