7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
50cl Bottle from De Bierkoning. Clear reddish amber colour, big off white head. Aroma of light smoke, caramel, toasted malts. Flavour is light sweet, caramel, light malty, ligth smoke, nice mild hoppy and smokey bitter finish. Light bodied. Easy drinking beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2010
at 09:49
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
The bottle looks simple, but good, the beer in the glass copper-coloured, creamy head. Starts malty-smoky, not too much like bacon like other smoked beers, fine spicy. Finish also grasy with light lemon notes. Very well balanced, quite drinkable. Great beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2010
at 21:56
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap Ølbaren. Pours clear and golden orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is breadish malty and light smoked. Dry wooden smoked, breadish malty and slight caramelish. Bitter and slight metallic. Slight citric note into a dry and wooden smoked finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 May 2010
at 08:11
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
tap at ølbaren. dark amber, smooth offwhite creamy head. mild but full aroma, faint smoked, malts, caramel flavor is smoked, a little wheaty, mild, mild caramel, very mildly hopped. ends mild, full bodied, smoked, slightly caramelly bitter.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2010
at 04:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Blanchard’s Liquor from a bet I won with my girlfriend 500ml ($6): Pours a copper body with a white head that leaves a thick lacing. Smoky grains aroma with a whole bunch of meat, like sausage and bacon bits. Smoky taste, moderate compared to more intense rauchbiers, but still there. Let’s the lager taste show through a bit more. Kind of like the Aecht Helles. Very smooth and pleasant mouthfeel. I kind of wish I got the bock or the marzen though.
Tried
on 17 May 2010
at 14:19
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle, 2010-05-13, Göteborg AR: caramel, couldn’t sense any gun smoke there AP: sout black body, 1,5 cm beige compact creamy head F: sour smole, bit too much mok in thie, some caramell but the sour smoke is overwellming
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2010
at 11:17
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
bottle from Münchberg. Clear mahogany-brown colour, mid-iszed creamy beige head, lovely smoky nose. Full-bodied, malty with hints of caramel and just the right amount of smoke. A delicious example of the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2010
at 11:41
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, home. Bright copper-amber liquid, crystal clear, with a fizzy, white, dissipating head. The aroma is milder and more refined than other rauchbier that I’ve tried, mostly Schlenkerla. Spezial’s Lager tends more toward rich caramel and fruity malt. The smoke doesn’t make the beer feel old or hammy. It’s more like a fresh, mesquite-ish accent to a nice malty lager. The flavor is relatively sweet but also much bigger than its abv would suggest, a bit like a good mild. It’s a great malty lager flavor, nutty and yeasty. Soft feel. Very good lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2010
at 22:28
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Brauerei Spezial, Obere Konigstrasse 10, 96052 Bamberg, Germany.Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, burnt brown sugar, dark berry notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091219]
Tried
on 23 Feb 2010
at 08:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Draft @ Redlight. Pours dark golden color with white head. Aroma is only slightly smoky. Malty flavor with just a touch of smokiness. Not really what I’m looking for in a smoked beer. Medium body with average carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Feb 2010
at 19:33