330ml bottle. Clear, dark amber colour with average to huge, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, off-white head. Mellow malty aroma, notes of caramel and malt lozenge, Taste i ssweet-ish caramel malty, notes of malt lozenge, a touch of toffee, minimally grassy, hoppy counterpart. Simple, balanced - nice,

On tap at a fest at Eataly in Rome. Orange/amber bright hazy pour with a medium foam. Nose: honey, yeasty. Mouth: sweet pastry and a confusing middle tart finish.

On tap @Mad for Beer (Rome). Bruna, tonaca di frate, limpida, schiuma avorio/beige media. Al naso note di marzapane, zucchero di canna, frutta secca, alcol. In bocca è prettamente dolce, con finale appena amaro a bilanciare. Corpo pieno, carbonazione media. Non male.

Bottæe 33 cl. Pours a clear, dark amber with a roughish off-white head. Very sweet caramel and biscuit nose with a berry note. Sweet, malty body, almost flat in carbonatio, loads of sticky toffee and caramel with no real bitterness. Gets a bit one-dimensional in all its sweetness becoming almost cloying. 300818

Imported from my RateBeer account as Del Doge Rauch Me Baby (by Birrificio Del Doge):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

17/VIII/18 - on tap @ Kantien (Gent) - BB: n/a (2018-1000) Thanks to whomever shared this with me...

Clear amber beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: holy shit, that smells like a very smoky camp fire, damn, so much smoke going one here! Mainly wood smoke, hint of peated smoke, some caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet and fruity, then super super smoky, salty touch, tastes like veal meat, smoked ham and smoked sausages, bitter touch. Aftertaste: caramel, super smoky, hint of citrus, quite some banana peel, bitter hops, bit grassy, hoppy, malty finish.

A brown-yellow beer, almost without head. Aroma has riped fruitness, actually overriped, toffee, some spices. Taste has riped fruitness, some spices, even hint of alcohol. Medium+ bodied, no carbonation. Boring and no freshness.

A golden beer, a head is quite big and blond. Aroma is good, grain and hoppyness of flowers and fruits. Tasta has grain, quite dry so good, also nice bitterness, hint of flowers. Almost medium bodied. Nice surprise, nicely aromatic but still the maltyness is dominating. Tasteful beer.

Draft at Arrogant Sour Festival 2018. Hazy golden amber color medium white head. Aroma of dust, cobwebs, rotten fruit, attic corners. Taste is musty berries, soft sourness, tannins. Tasty

0,1l from tap at Arrogant Sour Fest. Amber very hazy colour, small white head. Smells earthy, musty, funk, great blanket, spices, bit of fertilizer. Decent smell. Medium to full body, light carbonation, slick mouthfeel. Tastes of wood, vinegar, spices, peppery, grassy, earthy, citric, lactic. Finishes rather dry and medium sour with notes of vinegar, grass and peppery notes. Decent one overall 6, 4, 6, 3, 14

Rauchbier from this microbrewery near Venice, from a Belgian style steinie bottle bought at Gedeelde Vreugde in Sint-Niklaas. Like the other one (an APA) I had from this brewery, quite a strong gusher, but being prepared for this, I managed to reduce the loss to a minimum. Thick and coarse, pale greyish off-white, large-bubbled, irregular ‘gusher’ head lacing in shreds over a misty, mahogany-hued brown burgundy coloured beer. Aroma of strong Rauchmalz (smoked bacon), next to notes of soggy chestnuts, hard caramel candy, dry forest floor, tea bags, pear, burnt wood, damp earth, hazelnuts, peach, brown bread. Sweetish onset, some pear, fig and slight banana with a sourish elderberry undercurrent, estery with strong, numbing carbonation, yet full mouthfeel. Nutty, caramelly, brown bready maltiness with a slight metallic edge and lingering fruity esters, the breadiness more and more increased towards the finish due to yeast; smokiness is obvious and dominates from the middle onwards, with that typical smoked ham-like flavour you get in German Rauchbiers as well, but the overt yeastiness, breadiness and phenolic and estery overload due to bottle-conditioning going a bit out of control (see the gushing) distract a bit too much from this lovely flavour. Ends bready, dirty and malty (caramel sweet with the smoke mixed in), with a dash of herbal hop bitterness. Almost Belgian in style, like a cross between an artisanal Belgian dubbel and a true Bamberg Rauchbier – if I were told that this was a smoked ale made in Belgium by some of the countless small breweries here, I’d readily believe it. Too bad for the gushing and the excessive, irrelevant yeastiness but drinkable enough.