34 - Rauchbier Bock
Weyermann Versuchsbrauerei in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular|
Score
7.20
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Strong beer
This strong lager with its chestnut color and fine beige head of foam impresses right upfront with an intense bouquet of smoky notes and fruity hop aromas. Yet, its taste is gentle and harmonious with pronounced notes of toffee and caramel, hints of lightly roasted malt, and floral and citrus hop flavors. While there is also a perceptible warmth from the brew’s substantial alcohol content of 7.2 percent, the body is silky-smooth and the finish is slender, which makes this smoked Bockbier surprisingly easy-drinking. When paired with food, it is an ideal complement for such hearty dishes as a salmon flambé, grilled or smoked herring or mackerel, as well as sauerbraten or a venison stew. It is also ideal for deglazing dark sauces.
This strong lager with its chestnut color and fine beige head of foam impresses right upfront with an intense bouquet of smoky notes and fruity hop aromas. Yet, its taste is gentle and harmonious with pronounced notes of toffee and caramel, hints of lightly roasted malt, and floral and citrus hop flavors. While there is also a perceptible warmth from the brew’s substantial alcohol content of 7.2 percent, the body is silky-smooth and the finish is slender, which makes this smoked Bockbier surprisingly easy-drinking. When paired with food, it is an ideal complement for such hearty dishes as a salmon flambé, grilled or smoked herring or mackerel, as well as sauerbraten or a venison stew. It is also ideal for deglazing dark sauces.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
0.33 l bottle from the brewery's web shop, best before June 2025. Hazy, ruby with a thin, frothy, slowly diminishing, off-white head. Sweetish-malty, quite smoky and slightly fruity aroma of caramel, smoked ham, nuts and light raisins. Quite sweet, malty, moderately bitter, gently smoky-medicinal and a little fruity taste of caramel, nuts, smoked ham and some raisins, followed by a short, moderately bitter, minimally salty finish. Medium to full body, gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Nice Rauchbock, quite smoky but not overly so, overall very harmonious and moreish.
Tried
from Bottle
from Weyermann Living & Drinking
on 04 May 2025
at 17:38
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from the fan shop in Bamberg and drunk with Nelson. Clear dark brown colour. Lasting tan head. Smokey aroma. The smoke is actually quite light in the flavour morbput the same malt fruit. Decent malt flavour. A good blend of malts to give a good balanced malty beer with smoke and fruit cake fruit flavours. Some hop on the end. I thought very good.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Weyermann Living & Drinking
on 03 May 2025
at 16:35
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Weicher, runder rauchiger Beginn mit dunklem Malz. Moderate Süße, geringe Herbe, erkennbar hopfig, sehr süffig. Spritzig, langer Nachhall, gut. 9/11/11/10/9/11
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2024
at 17:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear reddish brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of intense smoked dark malt, caramel, bacon. Taste of smoked dark malt, bacon, caramel, nuts.
Tried
on 28 May 2024
at 08:56
6/10
Thanks HP. Fruity grainy beginning. Nice roast. Chocolate there, mild fruity with a soft and slightly grainy finish. Deep fruity chocolate, dark roast and smoke.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2024
at 22:01
8.4/10
Smoked ham, malty, sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2023
at 20:02
7/10
Tried
on 03 Sep 2022
at 06:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
on 02 Sep 2022
at 19:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle picked up from Weyermann Malsters Bamberg and consumed at home Sunday 27th March 2022 sat outside in beautiful 🌞 listening to Bodega - Broken Equipment. Pours a beautiful warm reddish brown with a lovely ruby glint in this sun, a mid sized off white head. There is a very nice smokiness, some fruity burnt toffee and a little fruit, slight warmth from the abv, lovely carbonation, it's a great beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2022
at 15:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared by Joes. Dark amber-brown color, small off-white head. Smell and taste malts, firm rauch-ish, sweetish a bit. Nice though. I like this.
Tried
on 28 Oct 2021
at 20:33