Shiner Bock

Brewed by Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company)
Style: American Dark Lager
Shiner, Texas USA

Sixer on sale so I figured it would be a prime time to finally sampling this sucker. About what I anticipated, not grand by any means just an easy going drink with some solid character. Minimal scent of sweet bready malt, and that’s it for the aroma. Nice light brown/amber pour with an initial thick off white head. Easy on the palate very drinkable, light, and smooth. Quenching and simple. Flavor is a watery sweet malt with some biscuit characteristic. Sweet with a dry honey quality. Fairly simple beer, should agree with the majority.

Bottle. Dark amber with whitish head. Not much in the nose but some hop and malt. Tastes rather bland for the style.

Bottle.Dark amber.Off-white head.Some malt sweetness offset by a slight bitterness.Light bodied.Not bad.

12oz. bottle. Pours reddish copper with short-lasting thin off-white head. Aroma mildly spicy. Taste is a surprise - sour bitterness grabs the attention upfront, which moderates after a couple sips. Thin body, very dry finish. Taste of dark malt and spices. Not bad, but I’ll pass on this one in the future.

A true grit Texas beer from a small American brewery in the tradition of Yuengling, Lonestar, Pearl, Olympia, etc. This beer costs roughly $5.99 a sixer and packs big taste and malty flavor for the price!

on tap. not to much to say about this one pours a caramel color with a thin white head and a touch of lacing. fairly carbonated with aroma of faint caramel, hops, and malt. flavor is the same as aroma with a little skunk to both. also has a light body, kind of a bad beer actually.

12 oz bottle into a pilsener glass. Pours with a deep red to brown body and rapidly diminishing light tan head. Aroma of DMS (cooked vegetables). Tastes of veggies again and a subtle maltiness with just enough bitterness to keep it from being sweet. No real hop aroma or flavor that I detected.

It had been perhaps 10 years since I last had this beer...which was a few years before I knew anything about beer. And while it was once a trade-up for me, it is no more. This bock is more like a mainstream lager than any other bock I’ve tasted. Aroma of this beer was of corn rather than malt, and its appearance was a pleasing clear red-brown with a minimal amount of head. Flavor was pretty lack-luster...not as corn-y as the aroma, but still not very malty for a bock. Mouthfeel was unremarkable, but I have a hard time imagining drinking more than 2-3 of these...not because they were flavored extremely strongly or because it is high in alcohol, but just because drinking it kind of made me want something else.