Smokey, Smokey, Smokey, that is the Schlenkerla Urbock. Probably the smokiest beer I’ve had and also enjoyed.  With several other smoked beers in their line up, I wanted to try the other Schlenkerla beers.  The irony is when I bought this beer, I didn’t realize that there wasn’t smoked malt in the beer.  However it is made in the same kettles as their other smoked beers.

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This week we took another trip up to Boonton NJ and met up with Kevin and Mike Malavarca from the Liquor Outlet and Wine Cellar.  This is Kevin’s second appearance on our Beer Brawl and this time he selected the theme of our show, Obscure Lagers.  Kevin describes this as, lagers which are new to market, difficult to find, limited production, or just plain obscure.  Regardless of the who, what, where, or why, we are always down to drink some beer and hopefully open up more reads/listeners to different styles of beer!

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