Stoudts Anniversary

Formerly brewed at Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Dunkler Bock
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

I'm really liking this brewery at the moment. I've only had a couple of beers but found them to be really well crafted. This one was a rich reddish-brown with a thin tan head to entice you. Malty and fruity (some raisin for sure) and bready. Some caramel through the sweet mouthfeel leading to a dry smooth resiny and very ageable finish.

Vintage 2/28/02 rated 2/5/04 Deep copper/ruby in colof with a medium sized off-white head.Aroma is of sweet malt and bread.Flavor is sweet,malty,warming alcohol notes, and finishes malty and dry.

Vintage 2/28/02 drank 2/5/04: The mother of all USA lagers. Better than Prima Pils only because it is impressive that a US brewer can make a good malty beer. Deep chalkly ruby with a large thinly slowing off-white head. Raisony bready caramel aroma, full and smooth like no beer that I have had. Starts and ends slightly sweet. Wow. Most underated beer on the site.

The best big bottled beer out of the sampler that Stoudts offers...and the best tasting, this beer is definetnely well balanced and drinkable. cheers to stoudts.

Dark Brown with a tan frothy head. Aroma is hoppy with a lot of fruity malt! Flavors of candi, brown sugar, figs, raison, and dried prunes, this is the stuff when it comes to a bock guys. Full bodied for a bock(dunkel?), sweet finish. Excellent Bock, maybe a classic!!

Dark brown body with a beige with VERY tight lacing, bubbles stick to the glass perfectly, close to a 5 appearance wise, it could basically just use a longer lasting. Aroma is deeply sweet and eminently complex. A plethora of malty facets. Pretty much every sweet malt flavor is in there, name it you’ve got it. From candy to licorice, from candi sugar to brown sugar, from prune to cherries coming accross blueberries. This is complex and pure. A delight for the nares. In mouth, the party keeps on going. Add a earthy aspect with notes of ashes and fireplace that get almost chalky. Aftertaste is woody and almondy. A big malt festivity which I can’t help but loving, but I’m forced to recognise the sweetness becomes a little too much, especially if you’re thinking of having this whole 765ml to yourself. Body is flawless and more, creamiest brew I’ve had in a good while, smooth like hell (hell is smooth??) and lager-ish in that sense, but VERY full and chewy. Big props to hopsrus for sending this rare liquid candy treat up the north.

Ceaseless interplay of blackberries in muddy earth, a scarless substance of ruddy girth...Replunging into its vernal berry harvest, malt lunging for its bubblegummy chariness...Luscious bockish conscience in svelte-ish quaffer’s impatience...Such a noble gift, its return to my lips I hope will be swift!!...

Wow. I could just smell this all night. Fantastic, complex sweet malt aroma with burnt caramel, toffee, dark plum, chocolate and wood. Dark ruby brown with nice light brown, large-bubbled head that dissipates slowly. Big, dark fruit sweet sugary chocolate and some toasted biscuity malt flavours. Very complex. Very heady. Almost ABT-like bubblegum flavour at times with a roastiness in the final taste. Really full-bodied and malty. Best enjoyed with full carbonation - once head has fully diminished sweetness becomes more sticky. Bottle.