Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen

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

Bottle and from barrel at brewery. I tend to prefer the Urbock but this is the classic benchmark rauchbier and I’ll wait to have several pints of Urbock from the wood to make a final decision which is my real favorite. Pours deep brown with a big, fluffy, lasting and aromatic head. Pure smoked malt aromas, flavors. The body is designed for quaffability. In-your-face smokiness yet balanced with a slight bit of sweet. Just lovely.

(Re-rate) Mostly chocolate with half a bag of Frazzles tipped in it. A bit smoky. Soft and creamy m/f. Delicious. (original rate- 3.6) Bottled, Piper’s End Beer Festival. Startlingly smoky, Viking Jorvik Centre nose, according to some of my samplers. This is really wrinkling a few nostrils. An ancient, waxy, bootpolishy, but above all, beechwoody smokiness. A definite hint of museum. Considering the nose, pours with a surprisingly clear red transparency. Still, flattish mouthfeel. Smoky but creamy, like Austian smoked cheese. Can’t help but think of smoked hams and Bratwurst. Massively evocative nose. The smokiness in the flavour is only marginally more assertive than in Black Cat or Cain’s Dark Mild. Got to try this with food next time. Completely unique, and wonderfully offensive to outsiders.

A very nice dark amber coloring with a little lite head, that is very think but manages to stick around. Aroma is very smoked and salty. The flavor is nicely smoked and not over the top and slightly peppery. This one would go really well with food, sausages, bangers and mash, etc...Nicely malty with hops in the aftertaste. Very enjoyable.

Reddish black, foamy beige head. Smells like Canadian bacon. Seriously. Really great aroma. Flavors is smokey, as one might expect, but also nice notes of caramel and molasses to balance it out. Crisp, clean palate. Even some hints of coffee as it warms. Thanks, Santa!

Huge head, dense and irregular. Beautiful sausage aroma, gentle and so enjoyable. Good head retention with deep amber color. Fun to sip, to get that chewy smokiness that makes you want to eat it or dinner. (gravity pour at GBBF 2003)

500ml Bottle: Nice smoke aroma that smells of a smoke-house, candle-smoke, smoked cheese, ski lodge, and a hint of burning logs. Poured dark amber/medium brown in color with a large, dense, rocky, tan head that shrank but lasted throughout. Clear. Not sparkling. Good lacing. Flavor of smoke, smoke-house, candle-smoke, smoked cheese, ski lodge, and a hint of burning logs. Medium body. Smooth, creamy texture. Soft carbonation. Smoke smoke smoke finish. Even though I am not a big smoked beer fan, the smokiness and the complexity of the flavor in this beer really impressed me.

Bottle; nose of smokey malts, makes me wamt to the deli for the smoked salmon it smells like! cherry brown with a medium, glass-lacing tan head; Flavor of smoke, roasted malt, and mild hops.

50 cl bottle. No yeast in bottom. Reddish brown colour. Aroma of great smokness. Nice light flavour of malt and some smokeness. A really great smoke beer.