Shiner Bock

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

A Texas beer for sure, but this beer can beer hit or miss. I’ve had some froma tap that was amazing, and other times watery. From a bottle, I have had this beer taste near pristine, and other times it tastes dirty and old. So, that’s why it gets a middle of the road rating for me. Better than many beers out there, still not great.

Pours a rich brown, nothing special about the aroma, flavor is lacking and tastes a bit watery. Similar issue with other Shiner beers.

Bottle pours a dark amber with a foamy off-white head that quickly fades to a thin film. Decent aroma of malt and grain. Wouldn’t describe it as full-flavored. Pretty mild flavor with just a touch of bitterness at the end.

Amber color with a small off-white head. Aromas are of grains and caramel. Mild taste of grains.

3/10/08 - Draft at Friday’s at DFW. Pours brown with amber hues, white head. Nose is caramel, brown sugar, and some nut. Sweet toffee, brown sugar, chocolate and caramel. Some sweet fruit, apple, maybe some pear. OK, drinkable.

12oz bottle. Reddish amber, large frothy head that goes away fast. Spicy aroma, smooth malty finish, low carbonation, a little mouth stripping going on here. Somewhat devoid of flavor. It looks and smells good but ends up being a dud.

Weird to find this served in a deli up on Montrose and Ashland. Dark amber pour. Grainy flavor...sweet and cloying. The bitterness is not only "not excessive" it is non-existant.

Pours a dark amber color with very little head, but that could be because it was a really bad pour by the bartender. Nose of a caramely, grainy, malt sweetness. Kind of a flat taste. A little bit of bitter flavor, but there was just a weird skunk to it. Pretty thin body compared to what I think of as a bock.