Yellow with a small, but lasting white head and a decent lacing. Aromas of wood, smoke and hay. Flavour of bacon-y smoke, malt, and some citrus. No hop flavour, but the bitterness is there an it feels well balanced to me.

Bottled (Thanks JensenTaster!). Golden colour, small white head. Slightly lacing. Aroma is very smoked along with some tar and fur. Flavour is smoked, wet burnt wood, some fruits and malts. Pleasantly smoked, not as extreme as the schlenkerlas, but still very nice and refreshing.

Bottled (BB 07/2007)
Dark golden color, small white head, some lace. Aroma is strange - ok, it has smoke and tar for sure, like sniffing ash tray. Thin to medium-bodied malty with smoke and tar - smoked pale lager maybe? This is quite light "rauchbier" and smoke is someway unbalanced.

Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is smoked, malt, tar. Flavour is smoked, malt, tar, fruit.

33 cL bottle. Poured unclear orange , no head. Grassy and yeasty aroma followed by smoke and citric notes. Taste is malty, mild, smokey and sligth sweet. Ends rather watery.

Bottle. Unclear pale color with a small fair lacing off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread light, and some light smoke. Flavor is moderate sweet with a short duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. Overall, just a little too thin for me.

Bottled. A clear, almost golden beer with a white head. Tar, smoke and bonfire makes this highly unusual aroma. Malt, beef-stock and a distinct smoked flavor is finished by a quite heavy bonfire-taste. The thin body leads my thoughts towards a smoked pale lager. Refsvindinge makes a lot uf unusual beers, this is one of them, but definately not the most unsuccsesful. (070119)

330 ml bottle. Clear pale body with a white head. Aroma was a big surprise, as I was expecting a more regular lager beer. A smooth smoked aroma with tar, very pleasant and a lot more discrete then the Bamberg style. Flavor is malt, smoky and a little hint of tar. Some bitterness in the finish.

Bottle from Engelsmann, consumed on 11/11/06.
Small, beige head is nonetheless fairly well-retained. Quite aerated and frothy, with some light amounts of it clinging to the sides as the liquid recedes. Deep burgundy-mahogany body has some drab brown and light beige tones as well. Moderate amount of carbonation rising in the liquid. Says it unfiltered and unpasteurized, so I assume it’s bottle conditioned, though there is little, if any sediment.
Not much smoke in the nose, and not knowing what I was drinking, I wasnt let on to it being smoked at all. More breadiness, light grains and pure barley notes, with a hint of toffee and caramel sweetness. Fresh mineral water and clean, snappy lager yeast crackle on the end. Light citrus notes of orange rind, lemon and marmalade mix with the toffee giving a chocolate-covered orange sort of impression. Light base malts further add vanilla and some honey. The attenuation is spot-on, from the nose, neither being too sweet or dry. The yeast and light grainy malts make for a very zesty nose. Some very light smoke emerges on the finish, with just a hint of cherry and almond-like nuttiness.
It takes a while to assert itself, and certainly never dominates, but smokiness does prevail upon the palate. At first I thought it a vienna, with a lightly sweet toffee malt combining with some biscuity/nutty notes to lend a carefully balanced mix of malt and dryness. But it’s not as toasty/roasty as a vienna, nor does it have the light acidic ending or stronger toffeeish sweetness. Rather, light base malt and some graininess, alongside crisp yeast and lightly citric-grassy hops give more an impression of a pilsener, while the light, sweetly smoked wood flavor adds a balanced layer of complexity. Some light fruitiness and soft vanilla character gives a little more softness than expected from a traditional pilsner. Smoke continues to grow and delight as it warms. Some light, anise-like flavor and accompanying chewiness is a bit out of place. Carbonation is moderate to moderatly-low, with a slightly watery texture. So I’m calling it a smoked pilsener, not that it matters, though it dosent remind me, at all, of Schlenkerlas smoked helles, and I thought that a smoked pils....so maybe this is a smoked vienna....