gift from mukke. clear brown, small offwhite head. nice smoked aroma, german, faint smoked and sweet malts. flavor is malts, caramel, faint smoke, flowers. mild smoked, but great flavor.

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden deep amber to hazzlenut brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is roasted malty and caramelish. Bitter, toasted malty and breadish. Bitter and roasted finish - dunkel or schwarzbier but not porter.

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is smoked and light caramelish. Smoked, meaty and toasted caramelish. Smoked and medium sweet finish.

07/06 0.33 l bottle. It poured deep brown body with small head. Malty, slightly roasted aroma. Weaker, but fine flavor, coffee, biscuits, some caramel and slightly lactic. Shorter, but prominent coffee finish. Fine porter, but misses quite lot of body.

Bottled 330ml. -Courtesy of Marko (thanks!)
Nice reddish/brown coloured, small pale beige head, light chocolate nose. Roasted malt, caramel and milk chocolate with vinous roasty notes near the end. Mild coffee hint in the finish. Light porter.

Another trip to Graz got me another Raschhofer Bierreise 6-pack. Cool! This one poured a lovely dark ruby colour with a small off white head that went away at a medium pace. Sweetish soft malty nose, caramelly yet dry, bit woody and chocolatey, maybe a touch of honey, actually reminds me of a lighter Tomislav, which is good in my opinion. Eh, light taste a bit too light (heh, I might even believe that their recipe is from England). There’s a cute little maltiness that ends nicely dry, woody and coffeish. Dark chocolate aftertaste. Drinkable stuff, likable and techically without flaws other than the lightness that takes a point in palate and at least a point overall, but can pretty much be called a Schwarzbier and noone would think of contradicting that. Still, that’s not that big a problem. I like this beer.

0.33 l bottle remained from last trip to Graz. It poured clear copper body with medium sized brownish head. Fine malty caramel aroma, sweetish, with only a touch of smoked malt. Flavor however showed more of it, pleasantly smoked peat, wood more than bacon for sure. Caramel, but not quite sweet malt nicely rounds it very nicely. Medium body with nice long smoky finish. Lighter than Bambergians for sure, but still an obvious rauchbier. Even more important, I really enjoyed its simple, but quality charm.

Bottled 500ml. -Courtesy of Marko/heavy, thanks for giving it away.
Clear amber coloured, small to medium sized off-white head, mild smoked bacon nose. Moderate malty, smoked cheese and subdued hops with pleasant mouthfeel and bitterish finish. Lighter version of Bamberger smoked beers and this one certainly goes into Top 3 Austrian smoked beers.