Bièropholie Calumet Grand Chef

12oz bottle thanks to drewbeerme for sharing this one. Pours brown with a beige head. Nose of ham roasted over a campfire made of burning hickory. Lots of the campfire, hickory, peat, and charred malts in the flavor. I’d like the smoke to come off a little stronger and knock me out like the great smoked beers do. However this is a fine smoked beer, I’m glad to have had a chance to try.

Bottle shared at DLD 08. Pours dark brown with a soapy beige colored head. Aroma is peat malt, smoke, roast. Flavor is peat, campfire, roasted coffee, sweet malts. Palate is medium bodied, medium carbonation, finished sweet and smokey. Great smoked beer.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown body with a tan head. Aroma is smoked malt, hickory smoked bacon, and a certain roastiness of coffee. Flavor is sweet smoke with a slight warming of etoh. A solid smoke.

Poured pitch black with slight ruby hints when held up to the light. There was absolutely no head or lacing on this one. Whoa, there is a serious aroma on this sucker, with the huge hickory smoked summer sausage smell. Some sweet malts, coffee, and chocolate, but it’s really all about the smoke. Taste is a more subtle smoked malt flavor with a hint of the smoked hickory. There is also some more prevalent sweetness in the taste with malts and dark fruit along with heavier coffee and chocolate hints. Mouthfeel is medium with no carbonation and coats the mouth thoroughly. This is one of the more interesting beers I have had in a while and I really enjoyed it.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with a moderate sized light brown head. Smells smokey and roasty malty. Tastes dark and roasty malty followed by lots of smoke and then a little bit of smoked beef. The flavor starts good but the smoked meat flavor puts me off a little. Medium body, slightly dry, somewhat subdued carbonation.