Sprecher Black Bavarian

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Schwarzbier
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Initial review, 3-13-07: Pint bottle. Aroma of hops, chocolate, coffee, and brussels sprouts. It’s strong but not particularly enticing. The smell improves as one drinks. Pours a sparkling but otherwise largely opaque dark brown with an amber hue and a small amount of short-lasting tan head. The flavor features a heavily roasted coffee taste with a dash of dark chocolate and a hint of lemon. Delicious! Long, bitter, coffee-like aftertaste. Medium body. Lively in the palate. Sprecher Black Bavarian has the appetizing combination of the appearance and taste of a stout and the texture and mouthfeel of a lager. It also is in many ways surprisingly similar (but superior) to Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock. <P>Supplemental notes, 4-19-08: Roughly 4 oz. pour from a 16 oz. bottle, consumed at a beer tasting on 4-12-08. This bottle has been aged for over a year in my wine fridge. Crisp, malty aroma with a lemon scent. Pours dark brown with a red hue and beige head. Much sweeter taste than the younger version of the beer. Lemon zest. Coffee bitterness. Roasted, almost smoky, taste. Dry finish. Medium body.

Not sure what a Schwarzbier is, cause i thoutght this was a porter or stout or somthing, none the less, it was good stuff. Little bit o coffee, chocolate, smokey flavor. Had on tap at the happy gnome

16 oz bottle. Pours a deep dark clearish brown, and a fizzy lingering head with some lace. Aroma is nutty, dry toast, chocolate, and light sweet caramel and hints of herbal and tea-likehops. Light roast and smokey flavors with roasted nuts, dark chocolate, bready, and a mineral-like finish. Nice crisp and clean, but was almost a cross between a schwartz and dunkel.

16oz. bottle. Dark brown, almost black color with a small tan head. Light roasted malt aroma with some brown sugar and coffee notes. Flavor of roasted malts, pumpernickel bread, brown sugar and a mild sourness that bothered me somewhat. I had this beer a year or so ago and remembered liking it more than this. It wasn’t bad by any means, just not as good as I thought.

A partially clear and hardly intimidating shade of black. Straightforward roasted malt aroma. Suggestions of rye and semi-sweet chocolate. Caramel infused coffeecake, cola and maple wood on the tongue. Not really endearing but nice enough, like an enjoyable but kind of unimaginative stout.

Ive been blessed to have had the privelige to taste her. Really probably the best beer ive ever tasted, but I am young.

Full bodied, malty brew that tastes clean on the palate. Refreshing for a dark lager.

Black with good, foamy brown head / Sweet malt and molasses nose / Light to medium body with flavors of molasses, chocolate, and roast coffee / Body and crisp carbonation make this an easy all-season drinker / Crisp but not lingering finish.