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Cerebral Brewing in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular|
Score
7.12
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Smoked Helles hopped with Hallertau Hersbrucker. Notes of Caraway Seed, Wildflower Honey, and Summer Campfire.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pours clear gold with a white head. Campfire aroma. Taste is campfire, smoked meats, with a smokey finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Cerebral Brewing
on 06 Nov 2025
at 21:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Smoke dominates everything. Also pick up a little malt and is bittersweet with a slightly soft mouth.
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 22 Oct 2025
at 01:23
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
16oz can from Tavour. Foggy golden pour, small frothy white head. Smokey aroma, campfire, woody, ash. Taste is smoked meat, ashy, wood, fireplace. Smokey through and through.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Mar 2025
at 03:29
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
10 oz stemless wine glass draft at Cerebral Brewing in Denver, Colorado. The pour is a clear golden with a ½ inch head that falls quickly. The aroma is soft smoke, ham, and cereal grain. The taste is a nice grain helles with the meaty smoke at the front middle and finish. Decently integrated. The palate is light bodied with active carbonation and a dry smokey grain finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Cerebral Brewing
on 12 Feb 2025
at 20:28
8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 7
Overall 8
Can from Tavour. Pours clear bright gold with a huge foamy near white head. Aroma of smoke, burnt wood and malt. Med body. Flavor is the aroma with some Noble hop notes. It's not bacon. It's more like alder used to smoke meat. Really nice!
Tried
from Can
on 09 Feb 2025
at 01:31
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 7.5
Texture 10
Overall 8
Aroma has notes of campfire, black peppercorns, grain, amazingness. Taste isn’t quite as impressive. It has all the great attributes of a good Rauchbier, but there’s a slight Band-Aid-ish off-note that definitely spoils the party. I was able to get used to it after awhile, and I still think it’s a good beer, but it’s unfortunate. It has a moderate hoppy bitterness backed by restrained bready malt sweetness.
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 26 Jan 2025
at 19:36
8/10
Damn good smoked helles. Thick bbq flavor but also crispy helles finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Dec 2022
at 16:23
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
10 ounce at the brewery - clear gold - moderately smoky, lightly sour, with an underlying noble hop bitterness - watery finish - kind of disappointing.
Tried
on 09 Dec 2022
at 21:33