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O'Hara's Smoked Ale 14 years 5 months ago #1

FDBinashui Topic Author Offline Posts: 30	What think ye of this?. I had a half pint of it at the Craft Beer Festival. Went for a full one in L Mulligan Grocer on Saturday evening. Flavour wise it's grand, but to me it smells somewhat unpleasant. Is it just me, and my untrained nose?

O'Hara's Smoked Ale 14 years 5 months ago #2

biertourist Offline Posts: 3112	I haven't had it and didn't know it was available any where so good tip. (Again I'm going to have to make the long trek to Stoneybater just for Mulligans.) Is it a peaty type of smoke or more of a smoke meat/ cheese (German Rauchbier) type of smoke? Adam

O'Hara's Smoked Ale 14 years 5 months ago #3

TheBeerNut Offline Posts: 11663	It's not great, but my first experiments with smoked malt turned out a bit like this too so I'm prepared to forgive them. It seems that if you use rauchmalt as a specialty malt rather than a base malt you get that sort of vague kipperiness in the flavour. Hopefully the next in the series will have learned from this.

O'Hara's Smoked Ale 14 years 5 months ago #4

Wyldechild Offline Posts: 45	I tried this at the Craftbeer fest also and I really liked it. Quite different to any other beer I tried that night. Went very well with a platter of cheese. Its not a session beer though!

O'Hara's Smoked Ale 14 years 5 months ago #5

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&quot;TheBeerNut&quot;:2fdkpkbw wrote: It's not great, but my first experiments with smoked malt turned out a bit like this too so I'm prepared to forgive them.

It seems that if you use rauchmalt as a specialty malt rather than a base malt you get that sort of vague kipperiness in the flavour.

Hopefully the next in the series will have learned from this.[/quote:2fdkpkbw]

They probably didn't combine their low quantity of rauch malt with T58 yeast, though, huh? <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" />

Crazy home brewers!

Adam

O'Hara's Smoked Ale 14 years 5 months ago #6

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&quot;Biertourist&quot;:1e5senpy wrote: I haven't had it and didn't know it was available any where so good tip. (Again I'm going to have to make the long trek to Stoneybater just for Mulligans.)

Is it a peaty type of smoke or more of a smoke meat/ cheese (German Rauchbier) type of smoke?

Adam[/quote:1e5senpy]
It's a kind of a Cheesy smoke, which is somewhat unpleasant in my view.

It tastes fine, although as another poster mentioned, it's not a session beer.

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