The Original Smokey
De Kromme Haring in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular|
Score
7.52
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours cloudy black with a lasting, small, foamy, beige head. Aroma of tobacco, toast, fondant, fig, black olive, charcoal, smoked ham. Taste is light malty sweet, restrained chocolate paired with fruity notes of fig & raisin, built on a solid smoky-umami base of olive, tobacco & somewhat salty licorice. Powdery effect in the back. Bitter edges of herbs & toast lead the way to a dryish, herbal hoppy finish with lingering smoke, toast & touch of coffee. Medium body, slick-creamy texture, soft carbonation. Nicely balanced Smoked, a bit Porter-y too.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2019
at 18:31
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is smoky, peaty, caramel, biscuit, roasted, taste is similar, slightly sweet, some toffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2019
at 10:12
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home, my girlfriend picked this one out; good choice! Pours black with lots of initial head. Aroma is smokey and dark, spices and clean dark malts. Smells a lot like a smokey Baltic porter. Big body. Flavour is sweet, with molasses, burnt caramel, biscuits. Smokey but not overboard, perfectly right for a smoked porter. I really get a lot of biscuit from this. Finish is sweet, somewhat bitter, with notes of coffee. Lovely smoked porter which I'll be having again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2019
at 22:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of Mallorn via the RB Euro Swap. Moderate sized, foamy beige head over an almost black body. Aroma of smoke and ashes, chocolate, and potting soil. Taste is bittersweet with the smoke and strong roasted bitterness balanced quite nicely by caramel and marshmallow sweetness. The latter picks up at the end and carries the finish. Medium body—quite oily. Very pleasant sipping.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2019
at 09:59
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home from DeBierkonig, Amsterdam, 16th March 19. Pours black and oily. Aroma is liquorice, smoke, peat. Taste is oily smoke, liquorice, meaty, easy to drink, I love this style. Delicious
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2019
at 09:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft @ BBP. Brune foncée, col crémeux café au lait. Arôme offre un bon bouquet fumé de speck et bacon, rétro fin malté; caramel, grillé fin. Palais est plaisant sur de belles notes de fumé, rappel de bbq et bacon, finement chocolaté avec une petite note épicée sur la fin, chocolat noir, palais épais et rappel de poudre de cacao. Plaisante, bien fumée, aurait juste pu être un cran plus légère.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Nov 2018
at 17:37
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Huge foxy cream head, bit irregular, over virtually black beer. Smoked ham, phenolic², sweetened tarr, freshly laid tarmac. Smoked, phenolic but thankfully a little less intense than the nose suggested. Good sweet malt underbuild. Good carbonation, quite slick, bit sticky and some alcoholwarmth. The nose might come as a shock to the unaware, but I liked it!
Tried
on 28 Oct 2018
at 06:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle @ home. Opaque black color, full sized off-white to beige head that lasts for a short while and leaves fair lacing. Smell and taste malts, smoky, light sweet hints but also smoky malt bitterness. It's got a lot, and it's all balanced. Quite well done, well brewed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2018
at 22:44
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
My rating of Smokey The Barracuda was probably for the original as well, as it had just been released back then, but oh well, a tick is a tick. Black color. Short beige head. Aroma's: smoked, smoked/smoking wood, red fruit, light sweet. Retronasal it's sweetish, smokey, aniseed, licorice, droppig. Flavor is moderate sweet with light fruity sourness. Medium bodied. Finishes smokey, moderate bitter.
Tried
on 03 Jun 2018
at 19:54