7

Smoked, plums, woody, crisp, bit of sausage

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at the Gresham, Dublin, picked up from Brew Dock 26/01/23. Clear deep amber with a good sized lasting light beige cap. Nose is smoked malts, caramel, dried fruit rinds, Beechwood smoke, light bonfire. Taste comprises smoked malts, ashen nip, more Beechwood smoke, biscuit, toffee, dried fruit esters, spice, burnt toffee, brown bread. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced smoke rinsed climax. Solid Rausch affair... good balance and not OTT.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Clear mahogany brown colour with thin head. Aroma is malty and has light smoke and leather. Nice depth of flavour. Smoke comes through well. Noticable hop bitterness in the aftertaste. Misses a little body. Other than that it gets close to a Schlenkerla.

7.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

440ml can delivered from KWM Wines, Kilkeel and drunk at home. Mahogany and clear with a small beige head. The gentle smoked malt character overshadows most other notes in the aroma, but I am getting some date and plum. The taste is more complex and nuanced, however: an initial smoky sweetness quickly gives way to a tenacious hoppy bitterness. It's incredibly bitter in the long finish with medicinal notes accompanying the smoky flavour. A well-made beer, and one to savour.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

13/XI/21 - 44cl can from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared for breakfast @ 77ships+1’s place, BB: 16/III/22, canned: 16/III/21 (2021-1345)

Clear deep amber beer, creamy irregular off-white head, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: very malty, caramel, grains, cow fodder, yeasty, some ripe banana, gentle smoke touch. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, pretty malty as well, bit sourish, smoky, peated almost, pretty bitter and dry, some banana. Aftertaste: hoppy, grassy, malty, hint of diacetyl, a bit sweet, caramel, hoppy, bitter, smoky finish, hint of peat.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Geers. Hazy dark brown, small, tan head. Aroma of cooked ham, anchovy, burnt beechwood, chestnut, earth, herbs. Taste has sweetish apple & pear over toasty, nutty maltiness intertwined with smoky meat & beechwood. Herbal hoppy finish, lingering smoke & burnt wood, red fruit, some caramel, toast. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Very pleasant Smoked, smooth.

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

440ml can at home. Pours a deep mahogany brown with a medium off white head. Campfire and sausages aroma with some caramel and brown sugar sweetness. Flavour is beechwood smoke, molasses, slightly burnt sugar, char.

7

Suitsune, linnaseline, magus, mõru, veits vesine, suhkrune. Hea.

6

🇮🇪Slightly smoked, but no way this comes near a German Smoked one…