Shiner Blonde

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

Pours clear yellow. Smells heavily of corn, with some hay and light honey. Also, smells like captain crunch without the berries, perhaps rice chex soaked in water. Watery and fizzy.

Pours with a small white head that goes quickly over a clear, pale yellow body. Aroma of corn, hay and a touch of honey sweetness. Taste is cereal tea, adjuncts, light cardboard and a bit of diacetyl. Fizzy and dry mouthfeel. Extremely thin and not repeatable...

Pours a very pale straw color with a medium to small soapy white head. Nose is sour dough bread but that blows off quickly, fresh uncooked corn. Taste is buttered popcorn, bread, hints of corn. Watery yet carbonated and acidic mouthfeel. Medium short finish. Nothing offensive at all but very basic and a poor representation of a pilsener. Some one referred to this as Shiner’s worst offering... see the hefeweizen.

Clear golden pour with a thin white head, a bit too hoppy for a blonde, doesn’t finish all that well either.

The lowest offering from Shiner, though it was so hard to find outside back home that I savored it. Very standard. Nothing bad.

Blah....blah....blah. Terrible pilsener....not that I like pilseners that much...but this is just bad. No balance....bad aftertaste.....I could go on, but why be mean.

I consider this to be a lighter version of Shiner Light. The color is a pale yellow, and the taste is slightly watered down.

Bottle. Pours a clear yellow with a one finger foamy white head. The nose is grain and light hops. Taste is grassy grains, sweet malt and light pilsener hops. Medium prickly mouth feel. Not that bad for what it is. Refreshing palalte cleanser.