Weyerbacher Fireside Ale

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Smoked
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Pours a dirty brown color with a thin pillowy head. Aroma is light smoke, some summer sausage, and a bit of dark fruit. Taste is much the same. All right.

Pours a rich mahogany color with thin wispy white head. Aroma is light smoke and ripe fruit, almost strawberry-esque. Taste is light smoke and tropical fruit punch. Overall, a tasty beer, but it’s no Aecht.

12oz bottle. Pours a deep, brilliant, reddish brown with a thick, initially pillowy, short-lived tan head that leaves many small spots of lace on the glass. The aroma is caramel/toffee/tangy malts with soft, rich smoke. The flavor starts grainy and malty with soft notes of spice and smoke and chewy sweetness. There is a lot of caramel with woody, earthy, peppery notes. Mid-palate has a medium bitterness from earthy hops and some smoke. The finish is full and creamy with some chocolate and caramel malts and subtle smoke. The mouthfeel is crisply carbonated with a subtle drying all over the tongue. It has a medium body and smooth texture. Overall, a decent beer, but lower in smoke than I had hoped and less complex. But on the flip-side of that: it’s straight-forward and drinkable.

12oz bottle from world of beer in tampa. deep brown pour with a small off-white head. interesting sweet and smokey aroma. tastes of caramel, dark chocolate and the mild smokiness. goes to a slightly metallic and woody finish. I’m not a huge smoked beer fan - so the subtle smoke flavors are nice. but overall the tastes seem a little confused.

Pours a very dark brown color, with a medium off tan head. Not as smoky as I was expecting in the nose, but it had some in there. Some malty and fuity notes in there as well. the flavor was also fairly smoky but not a smoke bomb. The aftertaste left a good bit of it on the palate. The dark malts and mild fruit character were somewhat present as well. Not a top notch smoked, but drinkable.

Beautiful dark brown pour with a thick beige head. Slightly metallic light smoky aroma. Nice lightly sweet flavor with a good hit of charcoal-y smoke on the aftertaste . Nothing special, but pretty solid.

12oz bottle. Brown-red color, slightly murky with a minimal head. Roasty, thick, and malty, with a solid smoked malt character. Some light hops way in the background which provide some crispness, but overall dominated by malty sweetness. Quite well done, a little deeper and refined than your typical smoked beer. Not overbearing smoke-wise, more fits into the grand scheme. A great beer.

Bottle via trade with Hopdog. Pours a dark brown with a quickly disappearing white head. Nose is distinctly malt and sweet fruitiness. There’s a tinge of caramel and touch of smoke. On taste, it’s actually a lot smokier and pretty well constructed. A bit fizzy in the mouth, malty brown ale base with a decent amount of hop bitterness. A touch nutty, and the campfire definitely jumps in and outlasts the other flavors. Pretty nice and well constructed. Decent.