Rauch Marzen
Port City Brewing Company in Alexandria, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Smoked / Rauchbier Regular|
Score
6.83
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draught from rustico. Poured a brown amber. Malt forward with bacon hitting. Pretty good
Drake (22934) reviewed Rauch Marzen from Port City Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pint can from Total Wine Gainesville, VA, 7/27/22. On Velkyal’s Top 10 list this year, so I know I had to try it ASAP! (fuggled.net). Clear dark amber, thin fizzy tan head, average retention. Aroma of strong smoke, earth, ham, caramel. Taste is toffee, caramel, smoke, vanilla, stone fruit. Slick, well balanced. Nice smoked beer.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Rauch Marzen from Port City Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Smoke and some citrus. Orange pour with fluffy white head and lacing. Decent malt body. Light relatively clean finish. Can from Churchkey advent calendar.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Rauch Marzen from Port City Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Deep dark brown coloured body with a nice and relatively thick, tan two centimetre tall head that provides a nice layer after a few minutes. Aroma of smoked meat, toasted malt, caramelised sugars and a dose of cereal with a light hint of dry yeast, but the smoked malt and meats are strongest, by far. Medium-bodied; Strong toasted malt and especially smoked flavours dominate with a lot of malts and also a pleasant sweetness that shows some molasses and pure toffee, but the smoked grain notes are still the most pungent with a mild sweetness and some bitterness, but that's mainly from the malts without any real hop flavours or nuances. Aftertaste shows some grain, bread, smoked meats and malt with a light sweetness, but not much else, this is fairly simplistic and strong, but giving a good dose of both pungency and nuances throughout the beer. Overall, a nice enough smoked lager with a lot of earthy, rustic notes and a good but fairly small sweetness that tries to provide a good balance, but the malt and especially smoked notes are way stronger. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 12-October-2020 for US$3,99 sampled at my house here in Washington on 14-November-2020.
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Rauch Marzen from Port City Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the Brig, pours a clear deep amber, thin white head. Nose is very true to style, malt, black tea, summer sausage, some beech wood. Flavor has more smoke at the front, it's bacony and sausagey, then malt, some orange here. Finishes off dry, which might be my only complaint. Well made and true to style.
radagast83 (13490) reviewed Rauch Marzen from Port City Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft pour at Port City. Poured a mostly clear kind of nutty brown color with a medium sized, foamy white head. Aroma was smoky. I don't really like many smoked beers, and this one smelled really smoky. Flavor was actually quite pleasant. There's a slight sweetness to it, with a touch of meaty notes.
JK (8181) reviewed Rauch Marzen from Port City Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
GABF 2017. This has more smoke than most rauchbier has, in the flavor and in the aroma. one of my favorite of the festival this year.