Shiner 100 Commemorator

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

Rather unappetizing watered-down cola pour, small white head, no lacing. Smoky and yeasty aroma, neither scent being especially pleasant. Predominate flavor is bitter hops, which does not work in a bock. Really thin, unpleasant mouthfeel.

12 oz bottle a five pack gift from pantani (He bought a sixer and hated it). Nose of caramel with a hint of cocoa. Clear light brown with a medium beige head. Flavor is lots of molasses with minor sweetness. Too molassey for me to really like it. One dimensional!

Brown with a thin off white head. Aroma is fruit, malt during the boil, a bit nasty... Taste is fruit, residual sugar, malty, light alcohol. Beer seems to be very unrefined and I believe my first homebrew was far better then this... Sad.

Not bad, but not necessarily great. The sweet aftertaste is pretty decent, but overall there’s nothing in the malt/hop kingdom that truly stands out about it. The price was right. Overall, I’d say get it to try it once or twice - but you won’t be fiending for this every week.

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.