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O'Hara's Smoked Ale 14 years 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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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