Shiner Bock

Brewed by Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company)
Style: American Dark Lager
Shiner, Texas USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

My local liquor store was running a $5.49 special on Shiner beers, so I said "what the heck". It pours darkish amber, with medium off-white head, no lacing. Next thing I know the head is completely gone! Aroma is of slightly toasted malt, caramel, and slight nutty character. Flavor matches with very slight sweetness. It reminds me of a very weak nut brown ale rather than a bock. It’s not awful but it’s very good either. Give me a Leinenkugels’s 1888 Bock over this any day!

UPDATED: AUG 10, 2011 This is really an amber ale that I had on tap at Zen West. The sweeter hoppy palate is nice and pours golden brown. The finish is quite clean and wet. I realy appreciate this find that to me was perfect for consuming over dinner or lunch without being too heavy or complicated. It was beer for beer drinkers not for connoisseurs.

Bottle- Beer pours a clear deep amber color with a light head that fades quickly. The smell is of toasted grain and a bit sweet. The taste begins sort of sweet but finishes clean. It has a light feel with not much body but goes down smooth & easy. Good beer to drink for most any occasion. The alcohol content makes it a good session beer.

Nice garnet color with a fizzy white head. Caramel, malt, and grain aroma and taste with a sweet finish.

this is a cheap beer in cost only. On tap flavor is incredible, the bottle loses a little. The aroma is nothing to write home about, but the flavor and absense of aftertaste make this an excellant beer!

Clear amber pour into thick foamy head that quickly dissipates into a ring of lacing as carbonated bubbles rise into a swirling pool of foam in the center of the glass. Aroma of toasted bread, sweet corn, and malted grains. Initial flavor of toasted malt with a slight hint of hops that fades into a lingering malty finish.

I have had worse beers. Their best piece of work, although that doesn’t say much.

Aroma of cereal. Flavor is dry, bready and watery. Dry and thin aftertaste.