Sprecher Shakparo Ale

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Traditional Ale
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Pours a light gold with an aroma of smoked Worcestershire sauce with nail polish remover. Flavor is honey, medicine, and notes of other strange tastes. I don’t know what to do with this one except thank God that I am not a Celiac.

This pours as a dark amber, unflitered liquid. Aroma is of burnt wood and the taste is the same. I could not get passed the first sip and had to find something quick to get the taste out. This is the worst beer I have ever had

Murky looking unfiltered beer with an immediately disappearing head. Aroma jumps out and bites the nose with tart hop. Pomegranite or cactus. Flavor is as murky as the appearance. Some kind of fruit, mango maybe? Muddled. This beer is not for everybody. Put me on that list.

St. Petersburg, Shep’s Deli - stubby 16 oz bottle. Pours a murky dark and dank orange with absolutely no head. Aroma of herbs and a room freshener - odd. Extremely odd flavor. I realize this is a gluten free product - but the flavor nowhere approximates the flavor of any beer I have laid across my tongue. Tastes like orange Tang that has been left out in the sun too long. Odd, rotten fruit finish. Thank God that my body can proces whatever it is they left out of this - cause I would be in a world of hurt if this is all I could drink.

When rating sorgum beers, I think one needs to be very openminded. If you have a gluten intolerance, and regular beer is definately out of the picture- then these types of brews are blessings. So with that out of the way: the beer pours a cloudy yellow colour with an off white head. Aroma is sorta stanky- no lie, but you have to have an understanding nose. Rice, corn and a sake like aroma. Tatse is sort of sour, but tolerable.

Pours a cloudy brazen color with a small, fizzy, off-white head. Minimal spotty lacing noted. To say that the aroma is heavily spiced would be an understatement. Basically smelling like an overly sweet wheat beer, it seems as though the brewers dumped just gobs of sorghum, nutmeg, and allspice in without regard for subtlety or pairing. Flavors, too, were intensely sweet up front, turning towards abrasively spicy and almost bitter on the back end. Very little, if any, hop character, with the bitterness stemming from the seemingly raw spices contained within. Medium-plus, sticky, syrupy body. Oh what a vile creation this is! Absolutely wretched from start to finish.

Shockingly sweet, dry cider and ginger flavor that grows on you and becomes delicious by the third or fourth bottle. Best buzz of any beer I’ve tried. Most notably, a beer without gluten means no wheat and barley farts. $7/4pack-16oz

This ale seems like it missed the plot, the smell made me interested, i kind of got an idea of what i was going to taste and then well it just wasn’t what it seemed, it’s really carbonated but no flavor, only an acidic aftertaste and maybe some sort of fruit but just lacking any noticeable enjoyability. I’m kind of upset i have to drink this, i don’t want to pour it out i spent money and times are hard!