Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen

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

(br-btl cm-lbl gn-txt, 5.1%, 25oz, ¢25/oz)

lct-mhgy, lasting creamy head, ^lace, light creamy body.

beechwood smoke chclt-malt yeasty aroma.

smoky fresh-hop T1, ^marzen smoked-malt T2, §ashy tobacco-hop T3, bitter-marzen-hops Tf.

Pours a deep chestnut brown into the glass, with a generous eggshell-tan head that reduces to a thin cap, leaving medium-soapy lace. The nose is very much of smoked peat, jerk spices, Slim-Jims and bacon. The flavors are reminiscent of their Urbock, with bacon, peat, smoked processed beef sticks, malt, dry-spice pork rub, with lots of smoke to go around. Very nice. The mouthfeel is perfectly medium-round, with well-integrated subtle carbonation, and a nice body with exquisite effervescence (i.e. aftereffects, residual aftertaste, etc.). This is almost as nice as the Urbock, lacking slightly in complexities of the big brother. I just love this take on the Märzen, Urbock and Weizen styles by Brauerel Heller brewers. They are a class act, and produce superb smokebiers. Prost!

50cl bottle. Pours dark brown with a minimal tan head. The aroma was very smokey. The taste was like drinking the gravey from a sausage fry up. The palate was full bodied with a very long smokey/meaty finish. Over all not my kind of beer. I will not be trying this style again, but I supose looked at for the style this must be near the top.

Rich dark beer that smells and tastes of smoked bacon...there is no greater combination of flavors on this planet than bacon and a fine beer. This is the absolute pinnacle of human achievement.

Poured an orangish color - white head and decent lacing. Aroma is smoke - on first whiff this smelled like my clothes the morning after a good campfire. I also got quite a scent of meat (smoked bacon). The taste is exactly what I expected - smoked bacon. I actually really liked this Smoked Brew... I’d pick this up again to share with friends.

Draft on tap at the Bavarian Lodge (Lisle, IL). Pours a very dark brown, a bit reddish around the edges, but quite translucent, a decent offwhite head that is cakey, laces light. Aromas are good smoked malts, meaty bacon and ham, a touch of ash and brown sugar, caramel. Very smoked dominant. Initial is fairly light bodied, giving good smoked malts, meaty ham, caramel and a touch of brown sugar. Sticks a light sweetness, smoked sticks moderately to the palate. Not too cloying overall, goes down quite nicely. As a fan of smoked beers, I like this and it is quite drinkable. Light bitterness on the backend, a touch of florals, run over with campfire, ham, and a touch of ash with some light caramel, toffee, and toast, largely bready with a touch of spiciness. I liked this.

I tried to base my rating on the quality of the beer when regarded as a smoke beer. But this really isn’t my thing. It was my first and might be my last. Aroma is like a burning log in a fireplace with malt. It pours a rather viscous blackish liquor. Taste is intense smoke flavour with malt. This really isn’t my bag but as a "smoked" beer this pretty much fills the bill.

a dark brown. odd head, thinnish. a lot of smoke on the nose, bacon and some sweet lime. taste is light and malty, gently balanced with some bitter smoke. a light body with a full taste. very nice.