Backdraft Lager
Snake River Brewing Company & Brewpub

Beer Geek Stats
From:
Snake River Brewing Company & Brewpub
 
Wyoming, United States
Style:
Rauchbier
ABV:
4.8%
Score:
+7 ratings needed
Avg:
4.36 | pDev: 2.29%
Ratings:
3 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
May 26, 2015
Added:
Aug 23, 2007
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  0
Backdraft is a rauch bier or smoked lager. Bamberg Germany is the home of rauch bier. The imported German malts used for brewing this beer have been smoked over a beechwood fire. Sutble smokiness makes for a very good complement to red meat, barbeque or any hearty fare. Backdraft is a singular creation of Head Brewer Cory Buenning.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by Jason:
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Reviewed by Jason from Massachusetts

4.29/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at the brewpub in an American pint glass.

Good lacing all around with a decent retention, bright and clear orange sunset color. Just enough smoke off the nose with a sweet malt back. Solid crispness with a slightly chewy medium body. Both a complex maltiness and smoke flavor spring on to the palate to start. Both malt and smoke go back a forth with toasted bread and charred beechwood flavors. Hop bitterness is modest though some herbal flavor appears in the end. Finishes with a slowly fading smokiness and more of the complex maltiness.

Wow, very authentic in flavor. It more or less puts less than fresh imported smoked beer to shame.
Aug 23, 2007
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 4.28 by MisterKilderkin from California

May 26, 2015
 
Rated: 4.5 by paulys55 from Pennsylvania

Jun 09, 2014