Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen

Brewed by Brauerei Heller
Style: Smoked
Bamberg, Bayern, Germany

Sorry but I find this a putrid tasting bacon rind soured nasty piece of work. Points for being different but just do not get how this rates as good. Would not want to have a session of it. Reddish hue and sweet raw bacon.

Bottle. Aroma..mmm smoky. Poured a dark amber. Flavor of smoked meat, which ya cant beat, liquid meat. Palate was nicely enjoyable and smooth. Overall, cant beat smoked beer.

This stuff is pretty tasty, I find the fresher it is the tastier it is. I had a bottle recently that was old, it showed some signs of oxidation and the smoke was very muted. Generally speaking however this stuff moves fast enough that you will usually get a good bottle, at least this is the case in my experience. The smoke on the aroma here is very nice, it smells a little bit like smoked meat, with some autumnal leaf aromas along with some malty sweetness. The beer looks very nice, it has a good auburn color with a nice white head. The flavor follows the aroma very well with plenty of smoke, sometimes a bit too much smoke which causes a slight lack of balance with the lighter sweet malts, there is a overall dryness that makes this a very appealing brew.

Maple pour with thin head. Great smoke, meat, charred wood aroma. Taste much the same. Very nice smoke beer.

A beautiful dark amber with an off white head. Legendary aroma of sweet malt, smoked meat, and a bit of fruit. Medium body. Taste is of smoked malt (you can actually taste the beechwood!) with a little residual sweetness (surprisingly complex). I’m a smoked food kind of a guy and this is one of my all time favorites.

Poured from bottle really dark with only a slight head. WOW!!! Smoke! I grabbed this one by accident but I’m glad I did. I agree with others that this is not a session beer but the more I drank the more I wanted. Overall a real smooth Rauchbier. I would definitely buy this one again.

Supersmoke! Aroma full of smoked beechwood, ok that’s the safe answer, really it’s liquid smoke. Like a smokehouse, like a smoked ham, like beef jerky, for real. It’s color is a dark brown, with no head at all. Flavor is full absolutely with smoked ham being the most prominent, but is that the best. It’s a 9 for me, because although its crazy it’s a one and done specialty. Palate is smooth considering, but your not pounding this. A great one and done.

Bottle. Aroma crazy with singed earth, smoldering firewood, smoked meats. Flavor smoky with sweet malt, some nuttiness. Very nice.