Beer Style: Smoked Beer
Smocadh (Bamberg-style rauchbier)
This rauchbier recipe is courtesy of my brewing partner, Fernando López Angulo. The smoked malt adds a smoky complexity without overpowering the other flavors. While Fernando uses a smoke gun and a variety of tinctures and oils to dial in his smoke profile, this recipe is a good starting point. If you are new to brewing smoked beer, experimentation may be needed to dial in the smoke level for your particular palate. Due to the large percentage of smoked malt, this recipe does not translate well to extract-based brewing.
Brewing with Smoked Malt
Smoked beers are rising in popularity, but many brewers shy away from using smoked malts because they are intimidated or simply don’t know how to use smoked ingredients. Learn how to unlock
Not Craig’s Smoked Porter!
(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.070 FG = 1.016 IBU = 45 SRM = 33 ABV = 7.2% Recipe courtesy of Jeff Gladish who is a bona fide rauchbier fanatic (see picture
Learn How to Smoke Your Beers
Beer produced with smoked malts don’t need to be smoke bombs. Learn to craft your own smoked malts and use them in recipes.
Piwo Grodziskie
Piwo Grodziskie (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.037 FG = 1.007 IBU = 30 SRM = 4 ABV = 3.9% Ingredients7 lbs. (3.2 kg) oak-smoked wheat malt0.6 lb. (0.27 kg) German pale ale
Up in Smoke
Rauchbier is the most famous beer brewed with smoked malt. Scott Burgess fell in love with the style while living for a decade in the rauchbier epicenter of the world — Bamberg, Germany. He explores the differences between some of the best examples and shares how homebrewers can brew their own rauchbier.
Bierkeller Rauchbier clone
Bierkeller Rauchbier captures some of the depth of smokiness and dryness (and color) of Schlenkerla’s famed rauchbier as well as some of the rusticity and sweetness of the beer brewed at Spezial (especially their Märzen).
Rauchbier
Rauchbier (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.053 FG = 1.013IBU = 21 SRM = 16 ABV = 5.3% Ingredients6 lbs. (2.7 kg) German smoked malt (rauchmalz)3 lbs. (1.4 kg)
Rauchbier
A classic rauchbier can be an acquired taste. Those that appreciate the style know the depth of character found in them. Learn the history and the nuances to brew one yourself.
Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company’s Croydon is Burning clone
(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.063 FG = 1.016IBU = 21 SRM = 16 ABV = 6% Ingredients11 lbs. (5 kg) rauch malt0.75 lb. (0.34 kg) light Munich malt0.75 lb. (0.34
Piwo Grodziskie
Piwo Grodziskie is a historical beer style recently brought back from extinction. Two Vermonters set out to brew this low-alcohol, highly-carbonated, oak-smoked wheat ale.
Grodziskie
Grodziskie (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.030 FG = 1.007 IBU = 30 SRM = 3-4 ABV = 2.9% Ingredients 5 lbs. (2.3 kg) Weyermann oak-smoked wheat
