Stoudts Anniversary

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

Dark nut brown. Big toffee aroma. Full bodied with crysral malt profile. Nicely well hopped, but still malt accented. A warming, robust and delicious beer.

Loved this dark lager. Very rich and complex. Fans of serious dark lagers will want to hunt down any bottles they may have left.

(vintage date 2/28/02, consumed on the anniversary of the anniversary lager): Pours with a big tan head, over a cloudy dark copper body. Aroma is rich, sweet caramel/maple, licorice, raisin, and slight alcohol. Flavor is maple/caramel, licorice, raisin, and hint of alcohol. Slight warming effect on the swallow. Taste isn't quite as rich as the aroma, but it's still pretty full bodied.

750ml bottle @Vero Beach Throwdown-pours a thin off white head and brown color. Aroma is sweet caramel, medium malt. Taste is sweet caramel, medium malt, dry secondary earthy hops. OK effervescence. Thanks mgumby10/from dickinsonbeer for sharing.

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.

Bottle (2001)... VBWT2008... Hazy brown ale with a mid-sized, frothy, off-white head. Estery, caramel apple aroma and flavor. Medium-bodied, but thin and watery with light carbonation. Lengthy red apple finish with mild tanginess and a bittersweet finale. mgumby10 provided the bottle and for that I say “cheers, Mike!”

Pours a dark amber color with a good light tan head. Aroma is very malty with some bock yeasty nose. Pretty smooth palate is mostly sweet with a well balanced bitterness in the finish. Lots of caramel maltiness throughout. A pretty good bock that hides its alcohol well.

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!!...