Rugen
Schilling Beer Co.
- From:
- Schilling Beer Co.
- New Hampshire, United States
- Style:
- Smoked Beer
- ABV:
- 8.9%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.06 | pDev: 6.16%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 28, 2024
- Added:
- Apr 09, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ryan1788a5 from Massachusetts
3.93/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.93/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
16oz can poured into a snifter.
A: Mahogany brown of the darkest shade, two fingers of khaki-colored, fine-bubbled head. Retention is great. Small, broken rings of lacing stick to the glass in slightly chunky patches.
S: Brown bread, bit of brown molasses, grainy and toasty. Vague fruit skin sort of impression, sort of like faint golden raisin. Subtle campfire smoke. It's a more subdued nose overall, and takes time, warmth, and some strong sniffs to get the full breadth of it.
T: Great grain and toast character up front. Brown bread, for sure, with some brown molasses and/or treacle sweetness. Campfire smoke is more apparent than on the nose, but still rather tame. Tastes beech-y to me. That golden raisin/fruit skin character is here too, and more likely some sort of decoction, malt-derived thing. Subtle herbal spice and earthiness from the hops. Starts sweet and malty, but dries into the finish. Trailing brown bread, hop spice, very faint smoke, and a soft oakiness.
M: Full bodied and very rich. Melanoidin-heavy like a doppelbock, with a texture that is coating but never sticky. Silky-soft and chewy, Ample carbonation pricks and scrubs fairly vigorously. Perhaps a whisper of wood tannin.
O: A very different approach to a Baltic Porter than almost anything else I've ever had. It almost feels more like a doppelbock, and I'd bet that this has been decocted. Though I do love a good smoked beer, I appreciate that the smoke character is subtle. It allows the whole foeder-lagered experience to come through. Maybe one for the more formally educated uber beer geek/brewer to appreciate rather than the mass market. I wish more info could be had on this one, but it doesn't even appear on the Schilling website, curiously.
Sep 05, 2022A: Mahogany brown of the darkest shade, two fingers of khaki-colored, fine-bubbled head. Retention is great. Small, broken rings of lacing stick to the glass in slightly chunky patches.
S: Brown bread, bit of brown molasses, grainy and toasty. Vague fruit skin sort of impression, sort of like faint golden raisin. Subtle campfire smoke. It's a more subdued nose overall, and takes time, warmth, and some strong sniffs to get the full breadth of it.
T: Great grain and toast character up front. Brown bread, for sure, with some brown molasses and/or treacle sweetness. Campfire smoke is more apparent than on the nose, but still rather tame. Tastes beech-y to me. That golden raisin/fruit skin character is here too, and more likely some sort of decoction, malt-derived thing. Subtle herbal spice and earthiness from the hops. Starts sweet and malty, but dries into the finish. Trailing brown bread, hop spice, very faint smoke, and a soft oakiness.
M: Full bodied and very rich. Melanoidin-heavy like a doppelbock, with a texture that is coating but never sticky. Silky-soft and chewy, Ample carbonation pricks and scrubs fairly vigorously. Perhaps a whisper of wood tannin.
O: A very different approach to a Baltic Porter than almost anything else I've ever had. It almost feels more like a doppelbock, and I'd bet that this has been decocted. Though I do love a good smoked beer, I appreciate that the smoke character is subtle. It allows the whole foeder-lagered experience to come through. Maybe one for the more formally educated uber beer geek/brewer to appreciate rather than the mass market. I wish more info could be had on this one, but it doesn't even appear on the Schilling website, curiously.
Reviewed by malrubius from Vermont
3.67/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Can. Very dark brown with small tan head. Smoky fruity herbal chocolate aroma. Very sweet per style chocolaty but very fruity. Tastes a little like cough syrup at first. Very light bitterness but still fairly dry with lingering smoky fruitiness chocolaty. Surprisingly not cloying. Almost forgot to mention that I don't like Baltic porters to begin with, and I only try the smoked ones because I love smoked beers.
Apr 09, 2022
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