The Brewers:
Company: Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams)
Location: 30 Germania Street Boston, Massachusetts
Website: www.samueladams.com
The Beer:
Style: "Rauch Bock" (A Racuhbier/Doppelbock hybrid)
ABV: 9.4%
IBU: 25
SRM: 25
Brewed with: Mittlefrueh and Hallertau hops, Harrington, Metcalf, Copeland Pale, Caramel 60 and Smoked Malts
Served: 22 oz. Bomber
The Drink:
Drank out of a 16 oz. Czech lager stein
Beer poured a deep crimson/brown color, forming an off white head that hung around the entire time. Formed more lace than expected, especially for a bock-style. Beer has excellent clarity, but is somewhat masked by its bold color.
Aromas of caramel and toffee (maybe?), robust aromatic and smoked malts. Some subtle boozy notes come through, but hardly noticeable and compliment the smoke well.
This beer starts off with a strong smoke flavor complimented by a rich malt flavor. Carbonation is typical of a lager-style, but the body and flavor is more like a tripel/quad. The smoke flavor fades toward the middle, as the caramel and aromatic flavors take center stage. The finish is the reverse, as the malt fades the smoke comes back in to play just a bit more, leading to a rich, medium-length finish.
Overall:
This beer has to be one of my all-time favorites. Released as part of Sam Adams' Small Batch Series, this beer is proof-positive that large-scale commercial breweries didn't lose their touch when they stepped up to mass-production. The smoked malts give this beer the perfect amount of smoke flavor, which is complemented excellently by the robust aromatic malt. All-in-all, this is like a 4th of July campfire in a bottle, and is one of my favorite examples of a traditional lager-style beer brewed with an emphasis on the malt ingredients. This beer is sure to please almost any beer drinker: smoky, malty, sweet and at 9.4% ABV this thing can be a real conversation starter.
Brewed with: Mittlefrueh and Hallertau hops, Harrington, Metcalf, Copeland Pale, Caramel 60 and Smoked Malts
Served: 22 oz. Bomber
The Drink:
Drank out of a 16 oz. Czech lager stein
Beer poured a deep crimson/brown color, forming an off white head that hung around the entire time. Formed more lace than expected, especially for a bock-style. Beer has excellent clarity, but is somewhat masked by its bold color.
Aromas of caramel and toffee (maybe?), robust aromatic and smoked malts. Some subtle boozy notes come through, but hardly noticeable and compliment the smoke well.
This beer starts off with a strong smoke flavor complimented by a rich malt flavor. Carbonation is typical of a lager-style, but the body and flavor is more like a tripel/quad. The smoke flavor fades toward the middle, as the caramel and aromatic flavors take center stage. The finish is the reverse, as the malt fades the smoke comes back in to play just a bit more, leading to a rich, medium-length finish.
Overall:
This beer has to be one of my all-time favorites. Released as part of Sam Adams' Small Batch Series, this beer is proof-positive that large-scale commercial breweries didn't lose their touch when they stepped up to mass-production. The smoked malts give this beer the perfect amount of smoke flavor, which is complemented excellently by the robust aromatic malt. All-in-all, this is like a 4th of July campfire in a bottle, and is one of my favorite examples of a traditional lager-style beer brewed with an emphasis on the malt ingredients. This beer is sure to please almost any beer drinker: smoky, malty, sweet and at 9.4% ABV this thing can be a real conversation starter.
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