Brews Brothers Autobahn
Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- From:
- Parallel 49 Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Smoked Beer
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.87 | pDev: 2.07%
- Reviews:
- 1
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 01, 2018
- Added:
- Apr 09, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.82/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.82/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
341ml bottle, part of this year's (Vol. 4) Brews Brothers mixed 12 pack, the theme being 'New Wave'. A collaboration with Gladstone Brewing, who hail from farther up the continental side of the big island. They've made a smoked Helles, and appropriately paired it with a song from Kraftwerk, one which I have never heard before, but I'm totally digging right now!
This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy bone-white head, which leaves some pleasant disconnected tree branch lace around the glass as it slowly seeps away.
It smells of meaty caramel malt, smoked pork, a seared dark orchard fruitiness, peat bog, and some ethereal earthy, musty, and herbal noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, wet campfire smoke, some singed pome fruity notes, more dank peaty esters, and some plain floral, herbal, and grassy green hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite understated in its banal frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and actually pretty smooth, as the smokiness becomes the new palatal norm, at least for the time being. It finishes off-dry, the malt persisting through all of the now fading char.
Overall - they've done well here to emulate the Bamberg greats, so much so that I'm considering changing the style to Rauchbier. Well, that, and maybe because I'm going to have a new earworm today, and it's in German, so describing this as a mere 'smoked beer' doesn't do it justice. Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autobahn!
Apr 13, 2018This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy bone-white head, which leaves some pleasant disconnected tree branch lace around the glass as it slowly seeps away.
It smells of meaty caramel malt, smoked pork, a seared dark orchard fruitiness, peat bog, and some ethereal earthy, musty, and herbal noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, wet campfire smoke, some singed pome fruity notes, more dank peaty esters, and some plain floral, herbal, and grassy green hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite understated in its banal frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and actually pretty smooth, as the smokiness becomes the new palatal norm, at least for the time being. It finishes off-dry, the malt persisting through all of the now fading char.
Overall - they've done well here to emulate the Bamberg greats, so much so that I'm considering changing the style to Rauchbier. Well, that, and maybe because I'm going to have a new earworm today, and it's in German, so describing this as a mere 'smoked beer' doesn't do it justice. Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autobahn!
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