Eisenbahn Defumada (Rauchbier)

Brewed by Cervejaria Sudbrack
Style: Smoked
Blumenau, Brazil

12oz bottle, batch 04, introduced to my system on 7/30/07. Vigorous pour into a large fluted snifter yields a big fluffy tan head above a very nice deep amber beverage. Aroma is an interesting mix of smoked malts and ripe fruits, is that candied pears mixed in there? Very well balanced smokiness with a great malt profile and just a hint of hoppiness. Quite possibly the most balanced Rauchbier out there, I appreciated not being beat over the head with the smokiness.

Pours clear and red. Aroma of hickory smoke with crab meat, oak, and bacon. Tangy lemon and orange dusted lean meat on the tongue with a kind of bitter mineral flourish. Iron. It has a bit of barrel aged attitude in sour, hot whiskey notes and wet peat smoke. Just a touch of salt and almond sweetness. Barbecue wood left to rot and sausage grease. Texture is heavier than expected, and highlights the metallic twinge of lager. Simplistic.

Bright golden-brown. Rich cold-smoke...deep earthy caramelly malts as well. The body is somewhat slick and caramelly, with a smokey signature. I love the smoke but the underlying lager lacks that certain something...I don’t like the caramel and it doesn’t work well with the smoke.

Tried this soley because it was from brazil. Aroma sweet and slightly oaky and burbony. Flavor like sweet molases and oak. Kinda harsh and overly malty like a scotch ale gone bad.

From a twist-off 12 oz. bottle, batch number (06) along the right side of label, sampled in a stein glass. Poured a transparent reddish amber with fluffy beige head, good retention, slowly dissipates into a thin creamy lacing. Heavenly smells of smoked pork and barley, hints of caramel, faintly apple and grape fruity. Moderate carbonation and a fullish feeling body, lightly slick in the palate, mildly smoked malts, barley, grains and caramel, a subtle apple and pear fruitiness, a trace of spicy hops with a brisk bite towards the end, estery alcohol becomes noticeable too, a dry, slightly smokey, sweet malty finish, refined and refreshing. This is the second beer I’ve had from this Brazilian brewery and I am now wondering if they have a special water source, the website doesn’t provide a lot of info, but I detect a certain mineral quality to this as well, like you get with many British and European ales and lagers.

Thanks to Shigadeyo for trading this one to me. Pours a darkish copper and has a small light tan head. Aroam is wet wood, light smoke and malts. Very earthy and mossy. The aroma takes on a pretty big smokiness however. Also woody malts and nuts. Finish is slightly bitter.

Bright, clear copper color with a taller ecru head. Sweet malt and lightly grilled cedar planks in the aroma. Quite simple scent, but honest. Light caramel start, with a light herbal and mild smoke influence. Not the full meaty smoke flavor, more a light sidebar. A decent Oktoberfest with a hint of smoke.

12 oz bottle shared with willblake and Dickinsonbeer. Poured an orangey/reddish/amber with an average white head. Aroma was lots of smoke with a sweet honey type aroma. Palate was very pleasant with a light body and some noticable carbonation that made this very quaffable. Flavor was lots of smoke with some woody notes and a lingering smokiness. This was one great beer and only enhanced by the fact that it ws from...........BRAZIL??? Wow first Jui Jitsu, then waxing and now beer. I love Brazil.