Shiner Spezial Leicht

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

Date: August 08, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Ticker
Appearance: clear pale yellow, wispy white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: light malt aroma, touch of unfermented wort, light floral hops
Flavor: light malt flavor, metalic, light floral hops, plenty of bitterness to balance and then leave a long bitter finish
Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 6/20
Rating: 1.9/5.0
Drinkability: 3/10
Score: 4

12oz bottle acquired in trade with lb4lb (thanks!). Poured a very, very light straw color with an averaged sized white head. Aromas of grains and corny. Tastes of the same. Thin and watery body.

Pours gold with a thin white head. Smells like water with some stray hops thrown in. Tastes like water with some hints of citrus. Drink seltzer. More flavor.

Pours a very, very pale yellow with a small fizzy head, short-lived, and plenty of gas. Not much aroma, but what it has is grain and cabbage. Way too carbonated, so whatever flavor it has - corn, mainly - is more of an aftertaste.
Like the Chicago area needed another near flavorless beer.

Binny’s Beverage Depot, Orland Park, IL

Pale straw color with a white head. A bit too pale for my liking. Grains and hints of hops grassy hops in the aroma. Reminds me a bit of the old paste/glue years ago. Sweet flavors, perhaps a bit of grain, but more in the lines of grape and apple juice. Hints of floral hops. A light metallic feel. Finish is light with a bit of bitterness and grass. A quinine taste at times, that nearly asks for a lime. Just not right.

Bottle fro Party Town, KY. Poured a straw color with an average frothy white head that diminished slowly and actually produced lacing. Light sweet grainy aroma. Light body with soft carbonation. Light sweet smooth flavor with a light sweet finish of short duration. Wet cold alcohol with a little character.

Bottle. Head is initially small, fizzy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is clear light yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (grain, husks), trace hops (herbs), with light notes of paint and DMS. Flavor is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately bitter, slightly unclean, slightly husky. Light to medium body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation. Precisely what you would expect.

Bottle from the Coop in Davis, CA. Pale golden color with a fizzy white head. Aroma of grain with a hint of hop. Thin bodied with mildly fizzy carbonation. Flavor is grain and imaginary hop. Just a bit zu leicht.