Bièropholie Calumet

Smoked Double Porter. The first commercial beer from Bièropholie.

3.8

183 reviews

, Canada

Community reviews

3.9 (Dégusté avec french tickler) Biere de couleur noir avec une mince collet collant. Odeur fumé, épices, poivre un peu de sucre. Gout fumé et poivré, cremeuse et un fini salé.

3.8 341ml bottle, with thanks to Glouglouburp! Pours a cola brown with a two finger tan head that dissipates to a thin but complete covering, minimal spotty lacing. Aroma is nice and smoky, more campfire than smoked meat. Flavor is also quite smoky, but doesn’t become overdone or overpowering. Doesn’t have the extra dimensions of peat and molasses like the Grand Chef does, but this is a nice smoked in its own right. A nice one for a cooler night with severe thunderstorms and tornado sirens wailing outside! Thanks again Dany!

3.8 great black pour, looks like a stout, good thick creamy beige head. Hge aroma of smoke, and what seems like soy sauce, and smoked salmon. Flavour is very smokey, also like smoked sausage, and bacon. Very interesting smnoke beer.

3.8 Au départ nos yeux aperçoivent le liquide de couleur noir avec des reflets rougeâtres surmontée d’une belle mousse beige. Par la suite notre sens de l’odorat découvre des arômes puissants de grain très fumé, de caramel, de petits fruits rouges murs et de chocolat noir. En bouche le corps est moyen et la texture est crémeuse. Pour finir nos papilles gustatives sont attaquées par des flaveurs de bois fumé, de chocolat noir, de cendre, de pruneaux noir, de caramel au beurre et de dattes.

3.7 Bouteille brune de 341 ml, édition 2008. Arômes de fumée suggérant la charcuterie. Belle robe noire, présentant de légers reflets rouges. Peu effervescente. Goût bien malté présentant une touche fumée soutenue. Le houblon marque également sa présence en arrière-goût. Plus accessible et plus facile à boire que la Calumet Grand Chef.

3.3 Bottle, thanks larsga. LArge milk chocolate head over dark beer. Smoky aroma. Light body, malt, dominated by the smoke.

3.8 Biggish dark brown head. Deep dark amber body, just barely translucent. Deep smoky meaty malty aroma, dominated by the smoke. Sweetish caramelly smoky taste with acidic notes. Dry smoky aftertaste. Has a meaty, tangy character. Light, mid-bodied. Very, very good. (0.341l bottle traded from glouglouburp. 2005 vintage.)

3.8 A thick light beige head is slowly diminishing. A thin bubble-sheet further obstructs light from penetrating a black body that’s totally opaque and shiny. The nose is deeply smoky and the smoke is complex to a degree that invoked notes of meat feel like parading sandwiches out a deli door on a cold afternoon, where the smell of meat permeates the air and lures you into the business. The porter base beyond is lovely as well. Roasted grains, chocolate and hard candy caramels all dance in unison within the smokiness. The nose is sweet overall, refreshing and crisp too. Mild coffee and vanilla lurk beneath the aforementioned. The flavor isn’t as exciting but is still pleasant and the result is an easygoing and drinkable beer. Balance is modest, sweetness quickly succeeding in blitzing the dry roastiness and expanding rapidly throughout the mouth. The bitterness element arrives late and disappears just as quickly. The finish is malty, sweet, raisiny and chocolatey, with smoke and bitterness lingering. The mouthfeel is full bodied, lush, smooth and softly but well-carbonated. Very good and reliably consistent in palate and consistency.

3.9 Pours as close to completely black as physics will allow. Aroma is smoke and roast, yet is in balance all the while. I do get a hint of dark fruit, and even some brown sugar. Flavor is smoky and roasty. The smoke is graceful and well done. Very nice beer.

3.8 2005 vintage. Pours a pitch black with a medium foamy light brown head. Aroma of smoked malts, bitter dark chocolate and coffee beans. Taste is of smoked beef jerky, roasted malts, dark bitter chocolate with a coffee bean finish. Nice.

4.1 341ml bottle from Glouglouburp, 2005 vintage. I also had a 750 at BCTC which was nowhere near as impressive as this bottle. Poured into a tulip glass, absolutely black color with a small tan lacing. Aroma is awesome-irific. Hits you first with charred smoked meat (just the way I like my meat), then comes some sweet smokiness and surrounded by plenty of burnt/charred characters. Strong, smokey, lightly sweet, and charred, how amazing. Taste is lighter with subtle chocolate sweetness wrapped in smoke. Leaves a long bitter coffee aftertaste. A light-medium body with some mineral/seltzer qualities on both flavor and mouthfeel. Low bitterness, very quaffable.

3.4 750mL bottle, courtesy of Goldorak @ BCTC 2007. Thanks, Martin! Pours a dark brown color; light tan head with good lacing. Roasted malts and milk chocolate in the aroma. Fluffy, highly carbonation mouthfeel: medium body, with plenty of roasted and charred malts; plenty of chocolate. Lengthy, smoke and roasted malt finish.

4.0 Bottle from Blankboy. Obtained months ago. Pours out a dark black color with a tan head on it. The smell is smokey, chocolate, some coffee flavors, roasted malts. Taste is thick and chewy, with some roasted flavors, and surprisingly not alot of smoke (which is a very good thing). I was skeptical of drinking another smoked beer, because unlike some people on ratebeer, I dont rate and or drink styles that I do not like. I went in not planning to rate this one, and ended up I really liked it. Not an offensive smoke, just very smooth. Really good stuff. Thanks Paul. This is definatley not any worse than the typical rauchbier, I dont care for alot of beers in this style, for example: Church Key Holy Smoke, Bells Batch 5000, Spezial Rauchbier Lager, Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen. However it does have about the same enjoyable taste as Alaskan Smoked Porter.

3.5 06 Vintage. Bottle from Boutip! Smoked aroma for sure, just love that smell. Almost black in apperance with a medium head. Medium palate. Some roasted malts to start with a lightly smoked malt flavor there as well. Not over the top in any department, but solid.

3.4 Got some slight smoke in th aroma.Pours dark brown with an off white head.Good amount of bacon and smoke in the flavor.Medium mouthfeel with lots of malt in the finish.

3.6 750. Almost totally flat pour. Nose is olives, smokey bacon malt, and somehow, for a 6.5% beer, hot alcohol . Hmmm. Very tasty stuff though, good smokiness behind the porter notes. The porter portion is rather thick, with good balance. Could use more smoke, of course.

3.3 341ml bottle (2004) from radiomgb - thanks, Jeff! Dark and opaque with a minimal beige head. This one is more complex than some smoked beers out there. While I don’t think much porter character actually exists, there is a very strong smoke presence in the nose (roasted wood and bacon) that combines with a tart flavor. Not like a Belgian sour but a piquant tang all the same. It’s a nice effort, but I’m not sure it’s entirely balanced. Still, very worthy and I’d try again.

3.7 Bottle. Vintage 2005. My last bottle of this and I’m finally rating it. Pours black with an average size creamy tan head. Nice aroma of roasted malt and smoke upfront followed by chocolate, vanilla and hops. Flavour of roasted malt, some smoke (but not as much as the aroma suggests), chocolate and a good amount of hops. Body’s a little thin for a Stout, nice creamy mouthfeel. Good stuff, quite enjoyable.

3.8 Drank in a stout glass. Got this baby @ the Jovy in Hull (2006 - 750ml)... for all the ottawa-hull people, get them fast as they’re very limited. Very dark poor, with a frothy creamy head. Very dark malted aromas with a nice hickory twist. Molasses and moca java coffee beans complete the aromas. All of the above aromas are very apparent on the palate added a twist of canadian maple syrup. Very balanced porter, love the smokiness ...

3.6 2005 341mL bottle from HogTownHarry, thanks Harry. Pours a very dark brown which no light passes through in the glass with a small tan head which quickly fades to a ring. Aroma of smoked meats, salty peanuts, some roasted malt and coffee characteristics. Flavor is much the same though not quite as smoky, a little more tangy and acidic, though I couldn’t explain the type. Bitter roasted malt finish with no traces of smoke. Medium bodied with somewhat creamy tingly mouthfeel and light to medium carbonation.

3.4 Bottle from Tornto Posse, July ’06. Very deep brown colored, near black. Decent beige head forms and fades slowly to a ring. Nice lacing. Aroma has nice touches of smoked malt, coffee and choco. play background roles. Body is just a touch thin to make this great, feels watery where there should be some heft. Chocolate and smoke flavor with a nice balancing bitterness in the finish. Perhaps just the slightest hints of sourness in the finish as well. Pretty well done, the only thing holding this back was lack of mouthfeel.

3.5 From a 12oz Bottle, 2005 Vintage. Dark brown, chocolatey pour with a thin layer of golden tan head. Heavy layer of smoked venison lurks beneath a more subtle chocolate base. Has a bit of salty, briney character to the bouquet that gives it an interesting extra dimension. Medium bodied, firmly carbonated mouthfeel. Much less smoke in the flavor than in the aroma. Some chocolate flavors create an initial impression of a fairly typical porter, and this is then followed by the expected smokey finish. The smokey flavors are a bit weak and one-dimensional though, coming across as more of an "ashy" flavor than the rich meatiness found in the bouquet. A unique, interesting treat. Thanks, Sammy!

3.6 A gentle hickory smoke rises from the glass, with some surprising fruit yeast notes, soon assauged by a deep alder fire, rising from a snowy pit. Deep dark pour, with orange fringes and a clean soap of coffee and cream. Flavor is a plain amber malt, brandy, and plenty of fresh maple syrup, combined with toasted pancake batter. Dark fruits creep in from the edges of the evening and more aged, settle yeast esters arise. Nice body, sweet, yet dry. Finishes with a bit more fire and an edge of roast, amongst juniper smoke. Just not enough complexity to make this intriguing, clean and well done, but not amazing.

4.0 Bottle. The beer pours a dark brown with some red reflects, with a huge mocha head. Aroma is smoke, wood, chocolate, caramel. Taste is similar, with some hops and bitterness. Creamy mouthfee. A good beer from Bièropholie.

3.4 Black body, redbrown edge, big brown head but fast away; Big but simple nose, it is nice but a bit to straight forward (a trademark of a lot of Canadian and American beers), overwhelming, soft chocolate and coffee, very pleasant smoke behind; The body is decent but doesnt really tell anything; It finishes of quite long with a bitter acidy feel and only very little aroma of burnt cocoa- and coffee beans as well as burnt chocolate. Decent very drinkable beer. Thanks to radiomgb.

3.8 2005 vintage via HogTownHarry. The beer pours to a really dark red hued blackish body. A thin tan cola head sits on top. The aroma is smoked summer sausage and smoky chocolate. The flavor is nicely chocolatey and smoky. Charred woods an rich cocoa with some coffee. Tart palate. Roasty and rich.

4.1 Brown bottle, 341 ml; eye: black with a nice cappucino head that lasts, opaque; nose: smoke of burnt wood, roasted malt, chocolat with a high cocoa contente, floral hops, lactic; mouth: all in roastin, almost agressive at the start but becoming more mellow as the chocolate appears, relatively full in the mouth, finale also is roasted malt but mixed with smoke and the beer is thinner, lightly sweet, mildly bitter, not much carbonation, a bit astringent; overall: really liked it FRANÇAIS Bouteille, brune, 341 ml; oeil : noire avec une belle mousse cappuccino, opaque; nez : fumée de bois brûlé, torréfaction, chocolat à teneur élevée de cacao, houblon floral, lactique; bouche : tout en torréfaction, presque aggressif au début mais plus celle-ci devient plus moëlleuse par la suite lorsque le chocolat apparaît, relativement pleine en bouche, finale aussi en torréfaction mais entremêlée de fumée et plus mince, légèrement sucrée, moyennement amère, texture crémeuse, peu carbonatée, un peu d’astringence; en résumé : bien aimé

4.6 Very smoked beer, very complexed, tastes of burned coffee, smells of smoke. Thick brown head. Very round in mouth...never taste something like that before.

3.9 2005 vintage. Bottle at l’Autre Oeil, June 16, 2006. Deep black porter with a thick creamy moka head. Smoked herring aroma, with notes of burned coffee and bitter chocolate. In mouth, a rich chocolate malt, with smokey peat notes, BBQ, coffee rinds, rich, complex, and surprising.

3.7 From a bottle. The head is thin with a color that is light tan and with a hint of dark orange. The bodyis very black. The aroma is massive chocolate covered peanuts with some bourbon and a hint of smoke. There is also a dark fruit like prunes in the nose. The taste has some rich coffee with raisins. The mouthfeel is sticky and thick. As you drink more, you get notes of good tobacco and a litle bit of the smoke. A solid beer, but nothing special.