Shiner 98 Bavarian Style Amber Lager

Formerly brewed at Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company)
Style: American Dark Lager
Shiner, Texas USA

(Bottle) Pours an amber color with little head. Aroma of biscuit and sweet caramel. Taste is basically sweet and malty. Medium palate and decent mouthfeel. Could be more balanced and complex, but still a pretty decent offering from Shiner.

Bottle poured a clear amber with a small lasting off white head. Aromas of bread, carmel and light earthiness. Palate was light to medium bodied and crisp. Flavors of carmel, bread and light earthiness with a crisp malty finish.

Nice deep amber color, no head just lacings, very little at that. Smells like victory prima pils. not very balanced on the palate. still prefer a shiner bock over this.

One thing I notice on this site is how often people like to crush the american micro breweries for trying to branch out and become better or more diverse. Shiner has gotten great marks from me on this and the previous two anniversary offerings. A great beer at a great price. why complain?

Head had a very robust soapy look to it. Extensive lacing 1/2 of the way through drinking. Color is a bit lighter than Shiner Bock, a nice light amber color. Aroma is a very faint sweet herbal/floral scent. Flavor has a little hops to it with a clean finish. The odd thing is that the first taste/smell is not that great but it almost seems to open up like a glass of wine as it sits. Overall, a year from now, I’ll probably be disappointed that it is a limited brew.

i gotta tell ya, this beer right when i smelled it and tasted it, it brought back many memories of a beer at a baseball game. really nice, probably received a little higher because of that. However on its own it would have received high marks.

Bottle. What a sad looking little beer. Looks like your average dark honey lager. Medium ring of bubbles, mildly effervescent, unimpressive. Nose-thick adjuncty macro nose. Taste-medium sweet, macro staleness, adjuncty, medium CO2, corny, moderately sweet. The taste is better than the nose or appearance, but this is nothing to write home about. Just a strong lager, nothing more.

This deep golden lager has "a blend of rich imported malts to make this the darkest lager possible". Apparently the brewers don’t get around much, because it’s barely a couple of tones darker than the typical BMC. The aroma is faint, pale malt with an earthy hop bitterness. The flavor is inoffensive, echoing the mild aroma and having the addition of mineral water. Drinkable, but, why?

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