Details des Biertyps

Name
Klas­si­sches Rauchbier
Style Gui­de
BJCP 2015
BJCP
32 A
Aus­se­hen
Varia­ble. The appearance should reflect the base beer style, alt­hough the color of the beer is often a bit dar­ker than the plain base style.
Geschmack
As with aro­ma, the­re should be a balan­ce bet­ween smo­ki­ness and the expec­ted fla­vor cha­rac­te­ristics of the base beer style. Smo­ki­ness may vary from low to asser­ti­ve. Smo­ky fla­vors may ran­ge from woo­dy to some­what bacon-like depen­ding on the type of malts used. The balan­ce of under­ly­ing beer cha­rac­te­ristics and smo­ke can vary, alt­hough the resul­ting blend should be some­what balan­ced and enjoya­ble. Smo­ke can add some dry­ness to the finish. Harsh, bit­ter, burnt, char­red, rub­be­ry, sul­fu­ry, medi­cinal, or phe­n­o­lic smo­ky cha­rac­te­ristics are gene­ral­ly inap­pro­pria­te (alt­hough some of the­se cha­rac­te­ristics may be pre­sent in some base styl­es; howe­ver, the smo­ked malt should­n’t con­tri­bu­te the­se flavors).
Geruch
The aro­ma should be a plea­sant balan­ce bet­ween the expec­ted aro­ma of the base beer and the smo­ki­ness impar­ted by the use of smo­ked malts. The inten­si­ty and cha­rac­ter of the smo­ke and base beer style can vary, with eit­her being pro­mi­nent in the balan­ce. Smo­ki­ness may vary from low to asser­ti­ve; howe­ver, balan­ce in the over­all pre­sen­ta­ti­on is the key to well-made examp­les. The qua­li­ty and secon­da­ry cha­rac­te­ristics of the smo­ke are reflec­ti­ve of the source of the smo­ke (e.g., alder, oak, beech­wood). Sharp, phe­n­o­lic, harsh, rub­be­ry, or burnt smo­ke-deri­ved aro­ma­tics are inappropriate.
Mund­ge­fühl
Varies with the base beer style. Signi­fi­cant astrin­gent, phe­n­o­lic smo­ke-deri­ved harsh­ness is inappropriate.
Gesamt­ein­druck
A smo­ke-enhan­ced beer show­ing good balan­ce bet­ween the smo­ke and beer cha­rac­ter, while remai­ning plea­sant to drink. Balan­ce in the use of smo­ke, hops and malt cha­rac­ter is exhi­bi­ted by the bet­ter examples.
Zuta­ten
Dif­fe­rent mate­ri­als used to smo­ke malt result in uni­que fla­vor and aro­ma cha­rac­te­ristics. Beech­wood, or other hard­wood (oak, map­le, mes­quite, alder, pecan, apple, cher­ry, other fruit­woods) smo­ked malts may be used. The various woods may remind one of cer­tain smo­ked pro­ducts due to their food asso­cia­ti­on (e.g., hick­ory with ribs, map­le with bacon or sau­sa­ge, and alder with sal­mon). Ever­green wood should never be used sin­ce it adds a medi­cinal, piney fla­vor to the malt. Noti­ceable peat-smo­ked malt is uni­ver­sal­ly unde­si­ra­ble due to its sharp, pier­cing phe­n­o­lics and dirt-like eart­hi­ness. The remai­ning ingre­di­ents vary with the base style. If smo­ked malts are com­bi­ned with other unu­su­al ingre­di­ents (fruits, vege­ta­bles, spi­ces, honey, etc.) in noti­ceable quan­ti­ties, the resul­ting beer should be ente­red in the Spe­cial­ty Smo­ked Beer.
Geschich­te
The pro­cess of using smo­ked malts has been adapt­ed by craft bre­wers to many styl­es. Ger­man bre­wers have tra­di­tio­nal­ly used smo­ked malts in bock, dop­pel­bock, weiss­bier, dun­kel, schwarz­bier, hel­les, Pils, and other spe­cial­ty styles.
Kom­men­tar
This style is for any beer that exhi­bits smo­ke as a prin­ci­pal fla­vor and aro­ma cha­rac­te­ristic other than the Bam­berg-style Rauch­bier (i.e., beech­wood-smo­ked Märzen), which has its own style. Any style of beer can be smo­ked; the goal is to reach a plea­sant balan­ce bet­ween the smo­ke cha­rac­ter and the base beer style. Ent­ries should be jud­ged on how well that style is repre­sen­ted, and how well it is balan­ced with the smo­ke cha­rac­ter. Ent­ries with a spe­ci­fic type or types of smo­ke cited will be jud­ged on how well that type of smo­ke is reco­gnizable and mar­ries with the base style. Jud­ges should eva­lua­te the beers most­ly on the over­all balan­ce, and how well the smo­ke cha­rac­ter enhan­ces the base beer.
Bei­spie­le
Alas­kan Smo­ked Por­ter, Schlen­kerla Wei­zen Rauch­bier and Ur-Bock Rauch­bier, Spe­zi­al Lager­bier, Weiss­bier and Bock­bier, Stone Smo­ked Porter