Jack’s Abby Cascadian Schwarzbier

Brewed by Jack’s Abby Brewing
Style: Schwarzbier
Framingham, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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This is awful. Even for an IPA it’s bad. The after taste lingers in the very worse way. It’s dark but gross. Hoppy but not happy. It’s growing hair on the back of our tongues like felt. Take away: don’t buy beer from Framingham. F-

Bottle @ home via trade with Ernesto987. Huge thanks! I just had two of the worst beers of my life and I’m going to try to not let that influence this rating. Pours a deep brown/black appearance with a spidery, dark brown head and nice retention. An amazing huge and potent, coffee, roasty malty aroma with some piney, burnt malty, a touch smoky, light citrusy aroma. Chocolate, uber roasty, burnt/smoky malty, spicy, very potent, piney hoppy flavor that finishes quite dry. Over the top, American-style version of a German classic, but quite tasty. Sure, I really like this but fucken a bro, it ain’t the best Schwarzbier in the world, bros.

16.9oz bottle, thanks to Mike L. Shared with alexsdad06 and AndyReynolds. ABV labeled as 7%. Labeled "Cascadian Schwarzbier". Bottled March 2013. Dark brown color, nearly black, slightly clear around the edges. Good thin off-white slightly tan head. Nice lace. Nice big roasty malt flavor. Big piney, lightly earthy, herbal hop. Nice big spicy bitter taste. Medium to bigger body. Lighter, smooth carbonation. More dry texture. Nice long roasty piney herbal hop aftertaste. Some coffee in the aroma, light hint of chocolate. This stuff is awesome. Puts a lot of Black IPAs to shame. Love it. My kind of aggressive, assertive schwarzbier, never had one like this. Double version please?

Bottle thanks to DrSilverworm. Odd for certain, complex. Smokey and coffee in the aroma, but after it hits the taste buds it brings out the hops.

50cl bottle pours a nearly opaque black with maple edges and some rocky, lacing, beige head. Aroma is excellent, dry toast, dried cocoa pods, blood oranges, pine needles, dried lemon peel, a little licorice. Flavor is sweet but only just so, light caramel, some dark chocolate, light fruit, some light coffee grounds, a touch of cola. Far more citrus in the flavor, oranges, blood oranges, grapefruit rind, pine, soap. All of it is very clean and meshes very well. Finishes super clean, a little soapy but not overly dry. If this was an ale it would be a black IPA, no doubt. Completely drinkable. Delicious. A great example of a German style lager with a distinctly American twist.

Black translucent pour with nice tan head. Aroma is spruce and grapefruit with nice ashy roastyness. Another dominating beer by jacks abbey.

Wow this is awesome, roasty an sweet and rich, tons of hops, this kicks asss

Thanks to LUSHawn! I pounded this one in under 10 seconds, bro! Pours a inky thin black with an enormous head. Aromas of hoppy bliss and light roast. Pounded quickly, finished dry. Really fucken good.

March 2013 batch, 500 ml bottle into a HF wine glass. A - Pours a jet black body that exposes some light around the edges. A few fingers worth of khaki foam sticks around for a while. Ungodly amounts of dirty, sticky lacing just coats the sides of the glass. S - Bright grapefruit, pine and charred malts and chocolate. It does that have uniquely Jack’s Abby lager aroma to it. T - Not overly bitter or malty. Just pleasant piney hops meeting ever so lightly roasty chocolate malts. A touch of smoke on the end. Very clean and easy drinking. Mouth feel is medium bodied and silky. O - A pleasantly hoppy schwarzbier, this was damn tasty and JA continues to amaze me with their innovative lagers.

Pours wall to wall black. No color to be found. Beige head. Puffs up big with the initial pour. Good lacing and retention. Nailed the look. The aroma is heavy on chocolate, molasses and doughy malt. Some pine and citrus hoppiness in there, as well. There’s more sweet roasted malt character than I expect from the style. It’s a pleasant aroma, but it’s more of a schwarzbier on steroids than a hoppy schwarzbier, at least in my opinion. I’m getting a fair bit of roast fruitiness. Pretty rich. Clean lager flavor. The taste is fairly sweet and still quite rich. Lots of fudge and treacle. Big coffee and pine needle finish. Again, over the top for the style, but still a very well made beer and quite tasty. I’m still not convinced that big hops and big roasted malt works well together, but this is a pleasant enough attempt, and I’m sure fans of American Black Ales and whatnot will like this beer. Very creamy mouthfeel. A bit much for the style, but who cares. This is a very good beer, and I would have called it an ale in a blind tasting. Knowing it’s a lager, I can bit out some of that clean yeastiness, but the hops and malt are too big for me to have guessed right.