Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Marzen

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 9

500ml bottle into glass. AMAZING nose, like BBQ sauce. Clear maroon beer with small tan head. No carbonation. Tastes like a normal dark lager but the finish is all smoky sweetness. What a great beer! Really,really good. No, seriously, really good.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Bottle thanks to footbalm
Appearance: Pours clear dark brown with a nice big off-white head and lots of lacing
Aroma: Burnt wood, campfire smokey
Taste: At first it seems to have a thin mouthfeel, then the smoke hits the tongue, salty, pepper and oak. Wow!
Very nice, need to take a few of these camping.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 8

Wow, interesting beer. I don’t think I can drink more than 4 or 5 oz a day. The smoke flavor just becomes too much. Poured out clear amber in color with a small khaki head. Aroma is pure smoke. Smells like a small fire is smoldering in my glass. There is just a hint of malt hidden behind the smoke aroma and really no hop presence. Taste is smoky and sweet malts. The smoke flavor seems similar to that of an Oak Cask aged Irish whiskey like Jameson Gold. But instead of the bright fresh wood taste and smell this is more charred wood embers in the flavor. I do taste some hops on the tongue and some bitterness does remain in the aftertaste. But the key player here is the smoke infused malts present throughout the taste profile. No mistake about it, it’s a smoke beer. For me this beer should shine when accompanied with the correct food. It goes OK with sharp cheddar cheese.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 9

At schlenkerla, Is this the version from the cask at the brewpub? Dark brown beer, medium head. Aroma is smoky, but subtle and malts. Taste is the same, not bad.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 6

Bottle: Poured a dark brown/black with a tan head. Smell was of smoked meat. The flavor was smoked malt with hints of bacon. Very weird but pleasant to drink!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 5

Pours out the color of a Pepsi but with a tan head. The aroma is of old ashes from a wood fire. The mouthfeel a little better than average with the tingling of carbonation. The taste has notes of charcoal.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottle. Colour – clear rust colour, white head, good lacing. Aroma – bonfire, bacon, cereal malts, floral hops. Mouthfeel – medium bodied, medium carbonation. Flavour – Unlike any Oktoberfest beer I’ve ever tried. You get the light fruitiness, but it’s accompanied by a burnt hickory flavour. Quite good.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Great looking beer with a thick creamy long lasting head. Flavour is sweet and malty, fruity, bacon, which I love but not in beer. It mainly tastes of kippers which I hate, especially in beer. I can see why some would rate this highly but it's not for me.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Tried in Germany. Pours a beautiful copper colour, almost clear, and a generous white head. The smoky wood aroma hits you as soon as the cap somes off. Notes of light fruit, malt, and earthy hops also apparent. The flavour has bacon-like notes in it, as well as fruit and grains. The smokiness certainly takes away from the Marzen character.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Clear dark ruby, brown with light brown lacing foam head. Aroma is stark smokey, old barbeque wood. Tastes quite smokey also, interesting. Lasting fresh char coal aftertaste. (Velp 201403)