Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen

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

50cl bottle. Clear mahogany colour with a fair lasting creamy head. An overwhelming smoked aroma makes it difficult to smell anything else. Reminds my a bit of smoked meat or sauces. Quite light, a bit oily and easy drinkable beer actually, but the smell is almost to much. A loooong smoked finish. Definitively a very nice experience.

Great rauch. Aroma was near perfect. Strong smoke with not much else. Pour was a nice deep burnt amber with a thin off white ring for a head. Taste was delicious. Sweet malt with the smoke kicking in midway down the throat. After the smoke exits the nostrils there is a sweet malty aftertaste that just doesn’t belong. Average carbonation. Wish the smoke was more up front than just the aftertaste, but all in all a great smoked. Trying the urbock next!

Pour is a murky brown with a foamy tan head. Aroma is smoky and meaty and reminds me of cooking on a campfire. Flavor is less smoky then the aroma but its still there. It leaves a bacon/roasted ham on the tounge as this goes down. Its different, I’ll give it that but this is not for me. I still gave it a fairly decent score b/c I can tell this prob takes a lot of effort to make and it is as advertised. Now I’m going to have smoke burps for the next 24 hours.

Pours a clear red-brown with a loose off white pancake batter head. Just liquid bacon grease. There could be nothing better, smoke, over a heavy dark body to support it. Taste is more smoldering campfire smoke, bacon and bbq smoker fumes.

Shared this one w/ SkyCop32. Picked up at Maruhn Getränke in Darmstadt. Pours a deep dark brown with a small reddish brown head. Aromas of liquid smoke, sardines, and firewood. Flavors of chocolate, espresso, and smoke. Nice dry crisp finish. Smokey aftertaste stays with you for awhile.

Pours a deep brown with small white head. Sharp aroma of smoke. Hrm, flavor of smoked fish. Yeah, this is the first smoked I've had, and I'm not too impressed. I guess if you don't like smoked food, stay away from smoked beers.

Nice cramy and frothy head. Lasts for a while. Great lacing and light carbonation. Great smokey aroma. Reminds me of the smoked salmon my dad used to make. Little salty in the aroma also. Color is a dark brown mahagony. Strong malt body with a nice smokey flavor. Not overpowering though. Finish is a bit acidic and smokey. Slightly bitter and slightly dry. A good beer that would go great with food.

Pours deep mahogany into a shaker. Sharp hickory-smoked meat notes. Offwhite micro head with good retention leaves slight lacing as it recedes. Creamy smoked sweetness with a lasting bittered smoke finish.