Stinker

Siphon Brewing in Michelbeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Collab with: Beerdevelopment Viven (prev. Brouwerij Van Viven) / Bryggja
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular Out of Production

Score

6.79

ABV: 5.5%

IBU: 30

Ticks: 16

Brewed for our one-year anniversary together with all the breweries in Damme, we’re raising a big stink about that other waterway, the Schipdonk canal. ‘Stinker’ is a top fermented beer, brewed very much as a Belgian ale (multi-step mash and bottle conditioned), but using Beechwood Smoked Malt from Weyermann® Malts in Bamberg (35% of the grist bill) to equip it with its subtle smoked bacon aromas and flavours. The cigar on the label is not only a reference to the smokiness of the rauchbier, but as something which is associated with the celebration of a special occasion, like the first birthday of a brewery.

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5.8

Kraddel (15872) reviewed Stinker from Siphon Brewing 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Pours rather unclear amber. Small white head. Smell is mild smokey, but very balance. taste is smokey, fleshy. bit bitter. Meh. mild MF and rather high carbo.

Tried on 07 Sep 2017 at 07:13

6.1

mike_77 (15880) reviewed Stinker from Siphon Brewing 8 years ago

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

Dark copper colour with lasting head. Aroma is very herbal and floral and has some forest herbs. Light smokey dryness too.

Tried on 22 Aug 2017 at 16:19

6.5

77ships (14509) reviewed Stinker from Siphon Brewing 8 years ago

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

Thank you for sharing RB Crew! Sampled 330 ml. bottle @ GBF 2017. Dark brown amber, tanned head. Nose is wet dog, dirty watery, medicinal smoke, smoked wet malts. Taste is band-aid, DE fish guts yeast profile, band-aid, lacking carbonation, wet leaves,… Watery, lacks carbonation. Didn’t appeal to me.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Aug 2017 at 04:04

7.9

tderoeck (22946) reviewed Stinker from Siphon Brewing 8 years ago

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

Imported from my RateBeer account as Siphon / Viven / Bryggja — Stinker (by Siphon Brewing):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5

19/VIII/17 - bottle @ Gents Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2017-1277) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers and celebrating my 10K!

Clear amber to orange beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: little peated, malty, grains, bit smoky, yeast, little dirty. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, fruity, funky, yeast, caramel, some vanilla. Aftertaste: some citrus, grains, little sweet, slightly peated, fruity, nice stuff!

Tried from Bottle on 19 Aug 2017 at 18:04

7.3

Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Stinker from Siphon Brewing 8 years ago

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

Draught Good dense head, fast reduced to cream rim and tenacious lace over clear foxy amber beer. Slightly smoked, beechsmoke, "Rauchsalz" (smokesalt), BBQ sauce. Smoked, Rauchmalz, again typically beechwood as used for perfuming BBQ. Sweetness is there, marked, but nowhere imposing. Quite slick, even oily; medium carbonation, medium bodied certainly. Mild, but quite pleasing Rauch. 7/4/7/3/15

Tried on 15 Jul 2017 at 14:28

7.5

jefverstraete (7491) reviewed Stinker from Siphon Brewing 8 years ago

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

Bottle from De Hopduvel. Hazy dark amber/light brown colour. Smokey nose, no peat but typical German smoked malt. Taste is light sweet, light fruitiness along with subtle smoke. Smoke is not too intense. Very drinkable. Good beer.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2017 at 01:58