Shiner 100 Commemorator

Brewed by Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company)
Style: Doppelbock
Shiner, Texas USA

Bottle: Pours a dark mahogany color with a light tan head. The nose is roasty with lots of sweet dark fruits and light caramelized molasses. The flavor is sweet and thin with a dry finish, the sweetness is there, but the body isn’t. It’s like a diet soda, or splenda, all up front but nothing in the back. A refreshing roastiness in the tail though and it’s still drinkable.

12 oz bottle courtesy of Soonah. Pours a clear red/brown color with a small beige head. No lace. Sweet caramel malt aroma with a hint of chocolate. Medium bodied palate with low to average carbonation. Heavy sweet taste of caramel. Quite sweet. Could have had it for dessert.

THOUGHTS: Great name for a doppelbock. Not a bad beer, but a pretty bad doppelbock. It was like a watered down doppelbock. If you made an eisbock out of this it would would be a decent doppel. Like their schwarz beer for the 97th anniversary, but better. The alcohol is really missing in this one for a doppel. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, dark brownish amber with an average, off-white head that mostly diminished that left fair to virtually no lacing. The aroma was nice, but weak. There was cookie, grain, caramel, underlying cereal, raisins, prunes, apple, cherry and slight hair product. The initial flavor was nice, but watered down. The initial flavor was sweet and a little bitter; while the finish was rather sweet and lightly acidic with a fairly long duration. There was caramel, raisin, prune, molasses, a hint of alcohol, a little metallic aftertaste that was also a little sickeningly sweet, some cherry and a little apple. It was a bit cloying. The light to medium body was like watered down syrup with fizzy carbonation and a hint of an alcoholic and hint of metallic finish.

Obtained in trade. Thanks. Brown, walnut color and thinner/lighter looking than I expected. A little roast and a bunch of molasses in the nose. Overwhelming for me. Nice molasses flavor with a light malty sweetness. Really a malt bomb! I couldn’t drink a lot of this but it is good. Full body, chewy mouth feel.

Poured a deep brown with a one finger light cream head. Sweet biscuit dough nose, with a sweet toffee and nutty character to the flavor. Very nice if a bit one dimensional.

12oz bottle. Pours a dark copper color with a light tan head, no lace left in the glass. Aroma is strong malt and caramel. Taste is malt and cider, not much hops come through. Overall this is a pretty good doppelbock.

Pours a caramel color with a medium head. The aroma is lots of apple cider and caramel. The flavor is more apple cider with a light roastiness and some defined alcohol. Not too bad.