Sprecher Winter Brew

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Dunkler Bock
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Sprecher Winter Brew in my opinion is without a doubt one of the finest examples of bock bier on the market today. This beer is rich and delicious, with a phenomenal malt character that is pure bliss to drink. This beer pours to a beautiful bright, deep brown color with a thick and creamy head, and a moderate carbonation. The nose if full of sweet malt, caramel, toasty, and nutty aromas. The palate is rich and full on the tongue with more delicious malt character. Flavors of sweet malt, toast, and nuts coat the tongue. Winter Brew finishes with more big malty flavors up front, then is balanced with just enough hop character, so this beer is not too cloyingly sweet. This beer also finishes with a wonderful, slightly warming burn. This beer is outstanding, and just one more gem from one of America’s greatest microbreweries.

Sprecher Winter Brew is a phenomenal example of bock beer. It is rich, malty, toasty, nutty, soothing and warming. Without a doubt one of, if not the most impressive bock beers I have ever tasted in all my years of drinking beer. Sprecher Winter Brew pours to a deep, bright, chestnut brown color, with a nice tan head, and a moderate amount of carbonation. The nose is a joy. Waves of sweet malt, toast, and nutty aromas flood the nose. The palate is full and round with fantastic sweet malt flavor paired with more toasty and nutty flavors. This beer finishes with more sweet malt up front, then glides down with a slick, soothing, warming alcohol burn. This beer is perfection in a glass and a masterpiece of the brewers art. I wouldn’t dare pair this with food. This one is to be sipped and savored. A world class brew from one of America’s greatest breweries. This beer is the perfect winter brew, but you could enjoy this as an after dinner beer or night cap year round. Take some advice, if you see this beer, what ever time of the year it is, buy as much of it as you can.

I’m with Beer Lover on this one. I have yet to drink anything from Sprecher that didn’t knock my socks off.

Pours a hazy dark reddish brown with a small light brown head that leaves some lacing. Sweet chocolate cookie dough and dark fruit aromas, plum, dark cherry, caramel, smoky chocolate flavors that blend together so nicely. Medium to full bodied and a very smooth, velvety soft mouthfeel, nice sweet candy like finish. I just wish I had a few more bottles of this well done lager.

Bottle... This beer rocks!... The nose contains toasted malt, yeast, freshly baked dark bread, caramel and citrusy hops. This beautiful beer has a sparkling clear, dark ruby hue with a medium-sized, creamy khaki-colored head. Mostly diminishing with minimal lacework. Rich and malty flavor up front with bursts of caramel and light molasses. Perfectly balanced with a citrusy hop presence on the backside. Medium-bodied with a silky mouthfeel and lively carbonation. Lengthy, lightly bitter, crisp dry finish. This is a MaltHeads wet dream. Great Bock! With an average RateBeer Score of under 3.5 out of 5, I think this beer is way underrated. Thanks go out to RainDog for this gem.

Very dark brown with a pillowy topping. Roasty aroma, followed with a sweet malty flavor ... reminds me of real German dunkels. Nice winter beer.

Bewitchingly dark ruby red color when held up to the light, otherwise it shadows over into black when naught. Perfectly thick and lush dark cream head of soft foam slowly persists up to about a half inch thick after a rapid pour. Fades off to a ghostly skim and slender collar. The lacing sticks in a disorderly fashion of large globs and spots. Nose is plentiful in a softer sense when given an adequate sniffing. Smokey toffee malt with a plummy undercoat takes up most of its display while other wiffs tend to bring in chocolate and dry heated spice. Taste is inticingly fun, with lots of miraculously woven flavors. Lighter, softer entrance with light toasty caramel. Smokey, earthy middle builds gracefully. Chocolate lacing begins. Dark grains procede. Grassy hop tickles and spices. Crispy burnings of cinnamon french toast spread with plummy-apricot jam and chocolate muffins fade into the background where the moderate roast of left over chocolate breads breaths into a very subtle drying very late. Fantastic finish! The chocolate coats the mouth with a very lovely warming softness and muffin-like fluffyness that sticks for a good length. Feel is pretty quick overall with a slippery front and smoothness to it. Keeps a medium body mostly. Seemingly builds a bit towards the end with a gradual increase in creamyness and fluffyness which broadens into some heavier tones and finishes well with lengthy chocolate leftovers and toasty/roasty warmth. Oh how I would love to try this on-tap someday, I’m thinking the chocolate tones would really take over and make for an almost creamed porter-like experience. Still, this bottled version is sublime! Drinkability is very easy goin’ and lubricious. Goes down fast and without much effort. This is probably my new favorite from Sprecher putting the O-fest and Black Bavarian a close second. Great stuff!

This is a tasty Dunkel! Pours from the bottle a dark brownish-red, with a large but shortlived head and no lace. Aroma of fruit and roasted caramel. Tastes spicy, with some soy sauce and malty caramel. Strong body, and would be very good in the winter. Was plenty tasty on a damnably hot August night in a bar outside Fond du Lac.