What Is Smoked Beer?
From Chowhound, by David Klein
Where there’s smoke, there’s delicious beer!
The first sip of a smoked beer is bound to be perplexing. There’s the smell, reminiscent of a roaring campfire, which cold-cocks your nostrils like an Iron Mike upper cut. The taste is even more disorienting–is this beer or carbonated ham juice?
“Someone who’s had lagers most of their life, you hand them [a smoked beer] and it’s a full-on experience,” says Andy Kline, Communications Manager for Alaskan Brewing Company which has been producing its multi-award-winning Smoked Porter since 1988 making it the oldest smoked beer brewed in America since prohibition.
Where did smoked beer originate?
According to Kline, Alaskan’s Smoked Porter came out of the tradition of the rauchbiers of Germany, most notably in Bamburg. The medieval town and UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to a number of breweries including Schlenkerla and Spezial which have specialized in smoked beers for centuries.
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