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I’ve only tried proper smoked beer once - it was definitely one of those your glad you’ve tried but aren’t necessarily in a hurry to try again. Am I right in thinking that’s more or less how beer would have tasted hundreds of years ago when smoking was the only way to dry stuff out in wet climates?
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To a degree - I've had beers made with wood-fired malts before (e.g. Goose Island's Obidiah Poundage), and the woodsmoke is pretty subtle; I think smoked malts might be partially cold-smoked.
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Am I right in thinking that’s more or less how beer would have tasted hundreds of years ago when smoking was the only way to dry stuff out in wet climates?
I couldn't tell you the answer but I've had plenty of other smoked beers (especially porters) which I really like but there's a certain meaty/cheese quality to the smoked German beers which I can't get on with.
Thrustvector
Gewürzt
So grim, I bought every German beer from Kris Wines for an oktoberfest party I had about 6 or 7 years ago (yes I drink non münchen beer at my Oktoberfest parties before the German beer police come after me 😂) and the smoked stuff was definitely educational. Camden brewery had one on tap à couple of years ago and they successfully managed to make it just as rank as the Germans.