Friday, January 13, 2017

Ölbeat 176: Aecht Schlenkerla Urbock

Brewery: Brauerei Heller
Country: Germany
Style: Smoked Bock 
Abv: 6,5 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is very dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma has peaty smoke and smoked malts. Taste starts with sharp smoked-roasted bitterness. Sweet smoked caramel malts with bitter dark fruits on the side take over. Growing roast and bitterness strike near the finish. Aftertaste lasts long and has roasted malty bitterness and gently smoked dryness.

Really special smoked brew from Bamberg. Luring smoky aroma incarnates in the taste: strong smoke in the start rounds up a bit to give room to sweet malts and bitter hops. Lasting aftertaste crowns the experience. Heavy and delicious beer.

Ölbeat

A traditional classic brew must be joined by a golden classic. Remembering that the theme of the brew is smoke in a very luring way. Don't know if my heart caught fire wtih the brew, but it surely was damn close.  

The Platters: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (YouTube)

From the 1959 album Remember When?, the song was written by Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern.