Bloody Bastard Kegging Day

Faced with a shortage of beer for Christmas, I kegged the Bloody Bastard Ale, and it came in at 1.008. I was wondering what it would taste like with the rauchmalt. Turns out it takes like a brown ale when it is uncarbonated.

So I forced carbonated it.

After a week on CO₂, the beer poured a nice dark brown with ruby highlights and a tan head. It smells like a brown ale, chocolatey and malty. It tastes a little like a brown ale. There's some chocolate there, but it finishes with a nice smoke flavor that takes it out of the brown ale style. I would never enter it in a competition, but I will certainly make it again.