Captain Lawrence Smoke from the Oak (Rum Barrel)

Brewed by Captain Lawrence Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Pleasantville, New York USA

Bottle via trade with john_adam2002. Batch 1. Wow! A very unique beer. Aroma is most unusual. Almost like a cross between a smoked and a sour. The alcoholic sweet notes from the rum are at the forefront. Just a wisp of smoke. Pours dark, dark brown. Frothy khaki head with good lacing. Fantastic interplay of wood, spirit and beer. All of the elements come together quite well and show themselves equally on the palate. An alcoholic hotness, but it fits in nicely with the flavor profile. Not for all tastes, but, damn, I thought it was tasty! Medium to full bodied. Creamy with lively carbonation. I see I am on the higher end of this beer, but I really liked it!

Bottle… Murky prune-colored ale with a mid-sized, creamy, beige head. Fantastic retention. The aroma is chocodelic! Funky and burnt with notes of cocoa, sharp cheese, light smoke and ash. The flavor is chocolaty sweetness, followed closely by medium tartness and moderate burnt bitterness. Full-bodied with a sandy mouthfeel and soft carbonation. Tangy, lightly bitter finish. Thanks, Degarth, for popping this one open!

Courtesy of njhcnwk via trade

Bottle: The aroma is sour fruit with some chocolate and minimal smoke or rum notes. It pours a dark brown with some faint orange hilights and a small beige head. The flavor starts with chocolate and faint caramel. The finish has some light cherry sourness with very faint rum notes. The rum probably strongest in the aftertaste, and even there it’s not very strong. The smoke is extremely faint as well. It’s medium bodied with lively soft carbonation. I can only assume that newer bottles are much more toned down in the rum department.

Tampa RB Gathering Beer #16....Degarth comes through with this one, pretty sure Crizay sent it to him....thanks guys....dark brown body with some nice ruby highlights, light tan head that is about 1cm thick and lasting....decent lacing coating the glass....aroma is pretty damn good, chocolate, raisins, licorice, rum and roasted malts....fore is rum soaked bread, chocolate and malts, with a nice dark fruit kick on the back end....medium-full bodied, round, filling palate....finish is roasty, sweet and satisfying....good beer

Bottle: Pours a clear reddish brown with a khaki head. Aroma, faint rum, fruits, some smoke and roasted notes. Flavor, roasty, chocolate, vanilla, rum, and some sweet fruity notes. Pretty solid.

thank you zathrus13 for a bottle of this brew. Pour was dark brown with tan head. nose was mostly alcohol probably the rum with raisins, dark fruits, malt, sweetness, caramel and more in the nose. The flavor is more dominated by the rum, which is not a bad thing, just kind of one dimensional. If the flavor can take on the aroma a bit more, you’re looking at a 4.5+ beer.

Thanx to Beerlando for sharing this.Has a nice smoke and rum aroma pouring out of this.Poured a nice mahogany color with a tan head.Flavors of rum, raisains and smoke, almost like they smoked the dark fruits.Sweetness up front with the smoke on the back end with a rum warming as it went down.

Courtesy Beerlando. Very dark chestnut with a dark tan head. A lot of brown sugar and rum on the aroma, with a mild fragrant character below. Light palate, spicy-sweet start to the taste. There’s some roastiness that comes out in the middle, but it gets hidden beneath the stronger sweet flavors. The finish has a slightly sour oakiness to it. Interesting - the rum adds a unique dimension, but it ultimately overwhelms the porter characteristics.