Muheim
Wren House Brewing Company in Phoenix, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Our Mutual Friend Malt & BrewSmoked / Rauchbier Special
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Score
7.04
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Next up in our returning favorite collabs is our Marzen Rauchbier brewed with the incredible folks at @omfbrewing! This batch didn't stick around long last time. That could partially be because once we discovered how tasty a mlíko pour of it was, it was all we had after work. However, once this left our taps, it became clear by the amount of y'all asking when it would return, we knew it had to make its reappearance.
Still brewed with 100% Beechwood Smoke Malt as its base and only a slight alteration to the Tettnang kettle hop additions to bring a smidge of a smidge more bitterness, this beer is even better than we remember it. Notes of freshly charred wood and a caramel sweetness, while keeping a sense of balance to this style that can be difficult at times.
Still brewed with 100% Beechwood Smoke Malt as its base and only a slight alteration to the Tettnang kettle hop additions to bring a smidge of a smidge more bitterness, this beer is even better than we remember it. Notes of freshly charred wood and a caramel sweetness, while keeping a sense of balance to this style that can be difficult at times.
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
16 oz. can, courtesy of Ibrew2or3 (thanks Dave), pours a deep dark brown / near-black with a small tan head. Aroma has plenty of campfire smoke and moderate earthiness. Flavour is smoky and dry, with lots of campfire smoke, dry earthiness—almost to the point of being muted—along with some minerality. A bit washed out but pleasant nonetheless. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Sep 2025
at 06:03
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
473mL can. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Tons of smokey wood on the nose; a bit like smoked ham. Flavour has a good amount of smoke, a bit on the soft side, more of that smoked ham thing. Not much from the malts aside from smoke. The body is pretty mineralic. It's not bad.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Sep 2025
at 02:04
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pint can pours with a clear brown mahogany colored body that supports a slightly loose tan head of foam. The aroma offers up modest levels of smoky rauch goodness followed by thin roasted malts and a dash of nuttiness. The taste delivers pleasing levels of smokiness that ranges from straight up smoke you can sink your teeth into to thin ribbons of maples and bacon. Behind the smoke is a supporting character of roasted malts. Yeah, this scratches my rauch itch that most US made smoke brews don't reach. This manages fairly firm levels of smokiness. Itch scratched.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Jul 2024
at 03:38