Ballast Point Abandon Ship Smoked Lager

On tap at stone. Pours a dark amber color. Bready caramel malts and grassy hops with campfire smoke and salted bacon. The smoke was well under control and not over the top. A well balanced smoked in my opinion.

On tap at Live Wire. Created a decent serving of fluffy heading while it was to hard to determine the color of the beer since the bar was so dark. The aroma was mild with only a hint sign of roast malt. The flavor was overly tart and felt it was unripe with only the faintest taste of a smoked malt profile.

SDFOB 2008. Draft. Pours darker amber no real head. Pleasant smoke salmon flavors. Finishes clean with some hop tones. I liked this one!

clear amber, always thin but solid sheet.. smoked malt nose, smokey peat flavors, somewhat ashy but clean..a little hop bitterness in the back and finish. had 2 of these, the first without knowing it was a smoked style....truth is, i didnt even notice the smoke in the first pint, but i was drinking to drink rather than analyze....i suppose that means that this was smokey but strongly subtle. the important thing though is that about 20 minutes before the first pint, i found myself smack dab in the middle of a crazy movie-like car chase through residential streets and alleyways. i was driving down a street and this white car jumps out of the alley way through the street and across into the alley again...he’s going to 70 mph...and 2 seconds later, 3 cop cars, sirens blaring...getting air across the street im on, right in fucking front me...i keep going straight and stop at a stop sign before the street goes up a steep hill. then, 5 cop cars appear at the top and speed down it and all 5 of them do movie-style 180s less than 10 feet in front of my car, sirens blaring, i was 90% sure one of these pigs was going to smash right into my car but they were so precisely starsky & hutch, they all went back up the hill, screetched to the left, and the sirens got softer and softer...did i mention that i was high as fuck to begin with.

Pours clear copper with a small ring of off-white bubbles. Light aroma of smoked corn. Taste is weak until the beer warms. Once it does, it is a pleasant smoked malt with some meat/bacon flavors. A little iron. Good, but I just want more smoke in my smoked beer.