Rauch
Tazawako Beer Brewery Pub in Senboku, Akita, Japan 🇯🇵
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular|
Score
7.33
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Server Land. Rich copper red colour, creamy off white head. Aroma is sausages and smoked cheese. Taste, smoke is prominent, meaty, light caramel, cheesy, honey! Decent maltiness. Really easy to drink and different flavours come out as you go down the glass. Great stuff.
TimE (11146) reviewed Rauch from Tazawako Beer Brewery Pub 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark muddy brown color that isn’t particularly attractive. The nose is modestly clean with smoked cheese and a touch of caramel. The mouth is very malty with prickly carbonation. The smokiness is subtle but firm and comes In waves. Very smooth and clean. Fuller body than I expected. Didn’t have the wow factor I remember from years past but this is good stuff.
thebrewsader (2728) reviewed Rauch from Tazawako Beer Brewery Pub 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Thanks TimE for the bottle! Poured into a snifter showing moderately filtered dark brown and orange with sparse white foam that quickly dissipates. The nose shows lightly intense notes of smoke and bacon with light caramel malts around the edge. Nowhere near the intense level seen in the Aecht Sclerenka. The palate is medium bodied and light carbonated. Flavors of light smoke and bacon supported on a bed of light baked bready and lagery malts. Finish shows a soy sauce and smoky bitterness with a resurgence of bacon flavors on the linger.
willisread (9761) reviewed Rauch from Tazawako Beer Brewery Pub 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at CBM Koenji. Smoked ham and honey aromas dominate with a touch of strawberry jam in the background. Well-balanced on the palate. Nice lingering finish with some smoked caramel and fruit. Lovely!
jhaase (14816) reviewed Rauch from Tazawako Beer Brewery Pub 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Smoked balsamico and strawberry aroma, meaty. Hazy, Amber , low head. Good smoked berry flavor, they managed the umami note, medium light, mellow finish. Very interesting and Christmassy.
SinH4 (15499) reviewed Rauch from Tazawako Beer Brewery Pub 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle, thanks jfb. Amber color with small head. Smoked pork, bacon. Balsamico. Very interesting. Taste is fruity and smoke, umami. No caramel, no roasted malts, very surprising. Nice!
Ferris (26026) reviewed Rauch from Tazawako Beer Brewery Pub 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft - Plum, cherry, mild smoke and some oak notes. Cloudy amber with a thin head. Bacony smoke that is sweet vs. the campfire smoke. Almost light peat. The flavours are almost vinous. I was fount ante enough to be drinking withe the brewer and he explained that their smoked beers use local wood, which would explain the significant differences between German and American smoked beers.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
7.5% On tap at the GJBF Osaka. A nice amber pour with a light beige head. The aroma is definitely smokey with maybe a hint of peat but quite appetizing. The flavor is bacon, smoke, malts, some sweetness. Really easy drinking stuff, you don’t feel the 7.5%. Possibly not as good as Fujizakura’s but they did a good job. Solid stuff.
Kyotolefty (15912) reviewed Rauch from Tazawako Beer Brewery Pub 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Draft at GJBF 2009, Osaka. A Special version that had been aged for 6 years at the brewery. Very smokey caramel-molasses aroma. Very nice. Orange-brown color; looks decent. Nice frothy, head. A lovely smoky flavor, woody, fabulous. The aging comes through very well. Smooth as silk.