Shiner 99 Munich Style Helles Lager

Bottle. Pours a golden yellow with a decent, clingy, white head that fades some but lasts. The taste is of malt and is kind of sweet. Has a nice aroma that matches the taste. Overall, this is a great tasting, refreshing beer that is pretty fulfilling and offered at a nice price.

Pours a clear gold with a fizzy, fast fading head. Aroma and flavor are all sweet malt. Really nothing else happening here. A bit thin and undercarbonated. Average.

12 oz bottle. Nice malty smell upon popping is a good sign. Pours yellow and bubbly, but shows some substance to its color, with a short fizzy head. Taste is malty, bready, but also a tiny bit syrupy. Bit of adjunct, maybe? Yet, it shows more malt character than the majority of American pale fizzy lagers. Hops are a bit indistinct when they be giving this a more German backbone. Still, it’s not bad, and definitely an individual beer.

Crystal clear golden body (almost too clear!), constantly bubbling with a quickly diminishing white head. Bland malt aroma that is fairly one dimensional (tart sweetness). Carbonation on the nose, then turning to a sweet maltiness. Very little hopiness on the end with lingering sweetness. The carbonation and sweetness intermingle in a not so pleasant manner. Overall, Shiner put all of their eggs in one basket on this one w/ their one dimensional malting profile. I think this beer could have had a bit more hops and a little less carbonation, and it would move up one level. This is an okay beer to sit back and drink, but I probably won’t be going back to it.

Nice Clarity with a small head. Decent compaction of bubbles. Nice beer on a hot Texas day. One of their better beers.