Stinker
Siphon Brewing in Michelbeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Beerdevelopment Viven / BryggjaSmoked / Rauchbier Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.79
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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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7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2018
at 16:03
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at HL3, 17/05/18. Very light haze on an amber copper pour with a decent light beige head. Nose is smoked malts, burnt toffee, dried fruits, bonfire notes. Taste comprises beechwood smoke, dates, orange peel, some hop presence, light oak, toffee. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Decent smoked affair.
Tried
on 17 May 2018
at 16:18
6/10
Tried
on 17 May 2018
at 15:22
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared at THT April. Hazy dark golden with off white head. Apple, ash, lots of smoke, cigarette smoke, sweet malts, herbs, light toasty malts. Medium sweet, bitter and bodied. Noooooot my thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2018
at 17:57
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
THT April at Kwartje, Gooey/Geoduck Edition. Hazy golden/amber with white head. Sweet malts, rauch malt, sweet honey dipped ham, grain. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. Nice. Smoke m if you got m. --- Beer merged from original tick of Stinker on 14 Apr 2018 at 12:53 - Score: 7
Tried
on 06 Apr 2018
at 17:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at tht. Aroma of mild smoke, wood and malt. Taste has mild meaty smoke, malt, wood, ripe fruit and amber malt. Not smokey enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2018
at 17:57
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
7 3 7 3 15 Bottle shared at THT April (Clam Digging For Geoduck edition). Hazy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma of smoke, burnt malt, caramel and fruity notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2018
at 17:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Collab of three small Belgian breweries, bottle from Willems. Regularly shaped, creamy, thick, off-white, irregularly lacing head over a hazy, orange-hued amber beer. Aroma of smoked bacon (though not too overpowering), smoked peaches, caramel, hint of cocoa dust, red apple, peanuts, dry cookies, dried orange peel. Fruity onset, crisp red apple, peach, light banana, sweetish, very sharply carbonated, a bit numbing. Nutty, toasty bitterish malt body with a thin metallic edge, caramelly malt sweetness lingering even after the smoke sets in, very obviously so yet still not overpowering and reminiscent more of smoked wood than smoked bacon as in a classic German Rauchbier. Ends with toasted malt bitterness, floral hop bitter accents and lingering fruitiness. Elegant hybrid of a Belgian amber with a Rauchbier, very well executed but perhaps a tad weak in smokiness to accompany a good cigar. Matched well with a cigarette, though...
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2018
at 12:16
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
04/02/2018 - small glass @BAB Bruges. Copper colour with creamy light tanned head. Nose is mild soft peat, leather touch, grainy. Taste is malty, soft smoke, leathery, Not bad but somehow expected more from it.
Tried
on 06 Feb 2018
at 20:15
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Fles, Dams Rauchbier. Lichtbruin bier met schuim. Smaak is licht rookachtig en licht zoet met duidelijke houttonen en mooie bitterheid. Heeft een klein zuurtje wat. perfect erbij past
Tried
on 25 Nov 2017
at 06:48