Zwönitzer Rauchbier
Brauerei-Gasthof Zwönitz

 

Poured from a can.

Appearance - Pitch black body with a thin short white head
Smell - Smoked meat
Taste - Follows the nose with smoked meat, but also watery.
Feel - Lighter than expected, lower carbonation, some bitterness
Overall - Enjoyable smoked beer. Lighter than hoped for but not a bad drinker.

Nice aroma great taste and well rounded Rauchbier

 

 

 

Day 19 of the 2021 Costco Beer Advent Calendar. Poured from a can into a pint glass. Pours pitch black with a tiny off white head. Smells of dark roasted grain and slight chocolate. Tastes of dark grain with very slight chocolate with woodiness. Beer is medium bodied yet fairly easy drinking, good carbonation. Overall, a good beer.

 

Cloudy dark brown color with a 1.5" head that settle to .5" in a few minutes.
Has a sweet, smokey crystal malt aroma with a touch of smokey bacon.
Sweet malty front end gives way to medium smoke and a strong hop finish.
Leaves heavy lacing on the glass. Medium mouthfeel that leaves a grapefruit aftertaste.
Seems to be a lighter smoke and more hopped than others I have tried.

a: nice murky dark brown color, with some dark mahogany notes and lighter brown towards the bottom of the glass. 2 finger frothy tan head

s: nice smoky meaty aroma upfront. sweet caramel, sweet malt. bacon, campfire smoke, roasted toasted malts. some dark chocolate and leather

t: smoked bacon and campfire smoke upfront. some earthy hop bitterness and sweet malts behind that. leather and lager spice. some caramel and generic sweet berry notes. smoke and malts are a bit lighter than i would have guessed from the aroma, but it's still smooth and pretty tasty

m: medium mouthfeel with medium carbonation

o: again, not as intense as some of the others in the style i've had, but nothing offensive in here and has a nice taste. a bit of bitterness that i'm not used to, but i don't think it detracts at all

I think the description is spot on for this. Maybe the best beer in this style I've had, especially with such a low ABV. Prost!

 

 

 

nice looking dark color. very strong smell with hints of maple and wood. taste is almost minty dark roast coffee. not a bad taste at all just interesting.

Poured from the can into a Schlenkerla branded becker style nonic(k) glass. Brewed and owned by Egerer.

Big rich forming beer. Dark walnut red bodied with chestnut reddish hues all over. Creamy forming large three to four finger height. Big staying power with an almost light mocha like color that looks like milkshake and ice cream. Big bold beautiful rauch.

Unique aroma for a rauchbier as well. Soft sensing smoke, and faint touches of meaty bacon, but there's a sweet milk chocolate angle hiding in here as well it seems too. Clean and slightly woody. Overall solid if a bit small on the nose.

The body seems to lack a bit of depth on first sip but not horribly. Good smokey notes in mid palate, a bitten ashen wet and woody though in feel and flavor. Mild cream light sensations, that also get watery in sweetness mixing with a faint herbal spice, and soaked wood flavors. There's that just faint hint of milk chocolate sweetness on the swallow too, which seems a bit out of place but I don't mind it.

Kind of a slightly sweetened rauch, but still alright even with a weak mouthfeel a bit.

16oz can from the Costco Advent calendar. Poured out a dark, murky brown color with a small, tan head of bubbly foam. It left sudsy trails of lace on the glass. It smelled of smoked malt, toffee and toasted caramel. Nice smoked flavor with some toffee and caramel sweetness.