Bottle from Downtown Wine and Spirits. Pours a fairly clear dark brown with ruby highlights and a smallish off white head that dissipates rather quickly. Smells of charred wood and smoked ham mostly with hints of sweet caramel malts deep underneath. The flavor starts off sweet with hints of caramel and brown sugar and bits of burnt wood. The palette quickly dries out and leaves a smokey almost fruity taste coating the inside of my mouth. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet phenolic mouthfeel. Pretty good rauchbier that’s not too over the top meaty at the campfire.

Pours deep mahogany into an English pint. Mocha head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Sweet smoked maple bacon aromas. Soft with dark caramel and smoked bacon upfront turning thin in the lasting smoked gouda finish.