The Rauchbier in Chavagn's La Passante series, 75 cl bottle shared by Francis at Loick's Lovulum tasting in Ghent; apparently the bottle was procured from a shop in a French village I myself visited one week later - it's a small world. Off-white, dense and moussy, stable head over a hazy peach blonde beer with deep ochre-ish tinge. Aroma indeed smoked but in a burnt cardboard and bonfire kind of way rather than the smoked bacon I was hoping for, bread crust, dried peach, rusk, unripe apricot - and paper ashes again inelegantly pushing through. Clean, sweetish onset, some fruity notes of peach and apple peel, medium fizz, rounded rusk-like maltiness, bread-crusty and cereally, with that smoky element returning as, again, burnt cardboard and paper ashes instead of the fleshy umami effect I always look for in Rauchbier. Light floral hop touch, but soft in bitterness. Simplistic, run-of-the-mill blonde ale with a non-fitting, weird papery smokiness put on top - this is a far cry from the Bamberg Rauchbiere.

30/VII/21 - 75cl bottle @ Lovulum Tasting in the pouring rain, BB: XI/22, LOT187 (2021-704) Thanks to Cies for sharing the bottle!

Clear deep orange beer, small creamy beige head, stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very smoky, fruity touch, yeast, ash tray, some banana. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter, smoky, earthy, ashes, more smoke, malty, grains. Aftertaste: very bitter, earthy, cow fodder, good smoke, bitter finish, nice stuff, I like it!