Rauchbier
Brauerei Göller

(review from February 2022) Well balanced and tasty rauch with good palate heft and excellent smoky flavor and lingering backend. Not chokingly smoky with a slightly charred/tobaccoish hint.

500ml swing top bottle. Dating on label is '23.12.24'.
Clear, amber brown colored body. Produces a lively beige colored head, and this wants to stick around. Leaves behind lacing patches.
Aroma of meat smoke from smoked malt. Sweet, in a way, and a touch of stone fruit.
Taste is smoked malt, with a flavor more similar to smoked meat than to campfire smoke. Sweet and far from acrid. Hints of apricot and figs. No bitterness. Mellow and long lasting aftertaste.
More than medium mouthfeel. Creamy texture. Some tongue numbing. Excellent carbonation.
Enjoyable smoked lager, very malt directed, sweet, and a smooth passage through the mouth.

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I had this on draft 8/29/24 @ the Hopleaf.

Semi-opaque dark orange appearance.

Nice khaki head; a thick curtain of lacing remained.

Smoked autumn leaves, mild bacon & faint cream notes in the nose.

Creamy medium mouthfeel.

Smoky autumn leaves & mild bacon flavors up front; smooth, creamy notes on the finish.

Incredibly drinkable for a rauchbier; this was borderline magnificent. I'd have another!

It’s a bit like drinking a brown paper bag. That’s what it tastes like. Some light smoke taste to it but there isn’t much else to redeem it. From a smoked beer perspective it doesn’t have enough smoke to it. Disappointed.

Pours a murky brown color with a minimal tan head that lasts quite a while. Aroma of smoke and roasted malts. Taste is strong tangy smoke and dark fruits.

Brown in color with a fingernail around the rim. Aroma is of dark, smoked malt. I’m tasting lightly smoked malt, caramel, and toasted nuts. The mouth is crisp and refreshing.

From a swing-top bottle, this beer is a brownish, clear color with a think off-white head. The smell of fragrant wood smoke hits your nose as soon as you pop the bottle. It’s a mix between a campfire and a nice smoked piece of meat. I really enjoy the smell. The smoke, though, dominates the aroma, and it’s hard to get any other beer scent. The taste is balanced, if not just a little dry. If you try, you can get some malt flavors through the smoke. It ends with a nice spice note. Not acrid, not overdone, but very nice. I really enjoyed this one.

Appearance: Clear, saddle brown. Fluffy off white head with good retention.

Aroma: Moderate smokey aroma

Flavor & Aftertaste: Moderate smokey flavor, low bitterness. Moderate sweetness.


Mouth feel: Light to medium bodied, low carbonation, drying, medium length finish.

Overall: This is a more moderate smoked beer vs Schlenkerla. A better introduction to this style. A little lighter bodied but certainly not thin. It has a moderate sweetness that manifests as you drink it but a short dry finish. Low bitterness. Bitterness and smokey flavor does not linger too long past the finish. Schlenkerla is the benchmark for this style but I think this balances the smokey element better with the more common beer elements.

From a bottle best by 21.09.2023. Medium brown color with a thin layer of off-white head. Strong yeast smell on opening with a smoky undertone. Medium body. Rich malty flavor with a smoky finish. Pretty nice

Very clean and true to style based on my limited experience with rauchbiers.

 

$5.79 for a 16oz ceramic flip top @ BlueGoat. 4.9% ABV, BBF 6/10/22 but my experience is that rauchbiers handle age pretty well.

Pours out to a sparkingly clear deep chestnut, forming a thick and sticky lightly yellow head with beautiful retention and a solid sheet of lace. Very nice looking brew. The nose is wonderful...rich smoke, but sitting on top of a grainy malt base. Cleanly fermented. No hop aroma. Medium bodied, medium carbonation, ~2.5 carbs. Tastes great, opening with smooth rich smoke, leading into a grainy malt body with a subtle grain sweetness, then a well balanced bitterness that ends up finishing semi-dry. Rich and full of flavor for a 4.9% ABV beer. No off-flavors.

Rauchbiers can be polarizing but I happen to love them and in the US it's hard to find many examples of the style so I end up brewing my own. I've had all of Schlenkerla's bottled lineup and this is comparable to their Marzen, not as big and chewy as the Urbock. Really nicely balanced beer here and a very good example of the style, however the $5.79 for one bottle is a bit of price gouging, IMO.

Clear, medium brown body; dense carbonation; thick, sculpted head, bone white color and long lasting. Nice light caramel malt nose, slightly sweet; a nice dose of beechwood smoke aroma. The taste reinforces the smell characteristics; moderate earthy caramel sweetness; medium-light presence of hardwood barbecue smoke flavor; maple; very light hop bitterness. Generally heavy mouthfeel; sweet and sticky; mild underlying dryness.

The brewery produced a nice, classic styled rauchbier. The smokiness is heavier than a lot of smoked beers but not as bold as, say, Heller Trum's 'Aecht Schlenkerla' beers. Well-rounded, very malty, with a nice touch of smokiness.

Pouring temperature: 48 °F; bottling info: 06.10.22
Source: local purchase

500ml bottle. Poured out a dark amber color with a small, khaki-colored head of foam. It left sudsy trails of lace on the glass. It smelled of smoked meats, toffee, coffee and malt. Nice smokey taste with roasted malt, toffee and caramel flavors.

Cheeseburger

Poured chestnut brown, actually brown, with an impressive lighter brown head that dissipated but never went away.
The aroma- most are difficult for my damaged nose to pick out much, but this smelled all the world like a barbecue. Never got that in a beer before, smoked meaty and soft malts playing well together.
The flavor follows a bit at first, smoky and almost but not meaty. I don’t have the vocabulary to describe it well, but it is really good!
The feel, well with carbonation throughout I felt it not smooth like it smelled but having just a little edge to keep it from going off the sweet end. Or barbecue end. Something. It worked for me.
OA, I have not had many smoked beers yet but if this is a good representation, I intend to try many more.

Great rauchbier. Modesty clear. Frothy, rich head. Aromas aren't overly potent but smells meaty and and bbq like. Taste is especially salty and meaty. Feel is on the lighter and thinner side (using schlenkerla marzen as the measuring stick). A slightly more crushable rauch than a schlenkerla but not quite as satisfying.

Had on a pint glass m. Draft. Loca barbón Amal town oklahoma. No head. Nice dark caramel color. Not strong in the bouquet. Mild roasted barley flavor. Goes well with a burger.