An unusual renaissance of smoked beer.
Because malt used to only be dried over a fire, most beers at that time were smoked beers. When kilned over a wood fire, the sprouted barley takes on the characteristic smoky taste, which then goes into the beer. In the post-industrial age, barley has long been dried in a different way and yet there are numerous breweries that are reviving smoked beer as a real beer specialty.
The Rittmayer brewery is one of these breweries and has created a real rarity among smoked beers with its Smoky George. In cooperation with the Nuremberg Whiskey Club, they developed a special kind of smoked beer: In contrast to many smoked beers, which have a pronounced smoked ham aroma, the Smoky George amazes with a completely different taste. Scottish malt dried over peat smoke is the reason for the unham-like aroma.
Smoky George impresses with its copper-colored, slightly cloudy appearance and creamy foam head. Our taste buds are pampered by a delicate malt sweetness and a unique single malt whiskey note. Experts were at work when brewing Smoky George, which you can tell from the first sip of the delicately composed hop work of art.
Brauerei RittmayerWater, barley malt, hops
