Bièropholie Calumet

Formerly brewed at Bièropholie
Style: Smoked
, Canada

2005 vintage. Pours a pitch black with a medium foamy light brown head. Aroma of smoked malts, bitter dark chocolate and coffee beans. Taste is of smoked beef jerky, roasted malts, dark bitter chocolate with a coffee bean finish. Nice.

341ml bottle from Glouglouburp, 2005 vintage. I also had a 750 at BCTC which was nowhere near as impressive as this bottle. Poured into a tulip glass, absolutely black color with a small tan lacing. Aroma is awesome-irific. Hits you first with charred smoked meat (just the way I like my meat), then comes some sweet smokiness and surrounded by plenty of burnt/charred characters. Strong, smokey, lightly sweet, and charred, how amazing. Taste is lighter with subtle chocolate sweetness wrapped in smoke. Leaves a long bitter coffee aftertaste. A light-medium body with some mineral/seltzer qualities on both flavor and mouthfeel. Low bitterness, very quaffable.

750mL bottle, courtesy of Goldorak @ BCTC 2007. Thanks, Martin! Pours a dark brown color; light tan head with good lacing. Roasted malts and milk chocolate in the aroma. Fluffy, highly carbonation mouthfeel: medium body, with plenty of roasted and charred malts; plenty of chocolate. Lengthy, smoke and roasted malt finish.

Bottle from Blankboy. Obtained months ago. Pours out a dark black color with a tan head on it. The smell is smokey, chocolate, some coffee flavors, roasted malts. Taste is thick and chewy, with some roasted flavors, and surprisingly not alot of smoke (which is a very good thing). I was skeptical of drinking another smoked beer, because unlike some people on ratebeer, I dont rate and or drink styles that I do not like. I went in not planning to rate this one, and ended up I really liked it. Not an offensive smoke, just very smooth. Really good stuff. Thanks Paul. This is definatley not any worse than the typical rauchbier, I dont care for alot of beers in this style, for example: Church Key Holy Smoke, Bells Batch 5000, Spezial Rauchbier Lager, Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen. However it does have about the same enjoyable taste as Alaskan Smoked Porter.

06 Vintage. Bottle from Boutip! Smoked aroma for sure, just love that smell. Almost black in apperance with a medium head. Medium palate. Some roasted malts to start with a lightly smoked malt flavor there as well. Not over the top in any department, but solid.

Got some slight smoke in th aroma.Pours dark brown with an off white head.Good amount of bacon and smoke in the flavor.Medium mouthfeel with lots of malt in the finish.

750. Almost totally flat pour. Nose is olives, smokey bacon malt, and somehow, for a 6.5% beer, hot alcohol . Hmmm. Very tasty stuff though, good smokiness behind the porter notes. The porter portion is rather thick, with good balance. Could use more smoke, of course.

341ml bottle (2004) from radiomgb - thanks, Jeff! Dark and opaque with a minimal beige head. This one is more complex than some smoked beers out there. While I don’t think much porter character actually exists, there is a very strong smoke presence in the nose (roasted wood and bacon) that combines with a tart flavor. Not like a Belgian sour but a piquant tang all the same. It’s a nice effort, but I’m not sure it’s entirely balanced. Still, very worthy and I’d try again.