Shiner Bock

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

Nothing special, but all over the place around here - your best bet if you find yourself in Texas at a place with no beer selection, as it is a big step up from weak tasting pale macrolager. Pours dark, small head, almost no aroma. Mild flavor (ironic given its supposed style), but drinkable.

Pours an amber color. no lacing on glass with very little head. The taste doesnt remind me of a bock at all. To me, it really isnt a bock, it is a step up from the typical american style pale lager. Not awful but certainly nothing special either.

One of my favorite beers, a good stand by that by far surpasses the amount of any other beer I drink.

One of the better Shiner product but that isn’t saying much.Shiner beers on the whole are extremely over rated. Everyone jerks them off in Texas because they are from Texas not because it’s good beer.

Definately not a German Bock. Not much in the way of aroma. Malt flavor barely any hops. Drinkable, but nothing spectacular.

Tastes of fermented cardboard. Has no character worth describing. Doesn’t taste like a bock.

Poured the color of ice tea with no lacing on glass. Forgoes any attempt at hops with focus on malt - sweet, a little on the fizzy side. I think this is in the same class as those ’craft’ brews from Michelob - just a notch above. Very drinkable - won’t ever be mistaken for a German Bock - but, then again, not priced like one either. Something for someone looking for just a bit more than the standard American lager.

Bottle at Lobo. Poured a dark amber with a thin head. Sweet cereal aroma, with some honey, grass and a slight sourness. Flavor of off-sweet honeyed cereal malts with a slightly citric, metallic and/or carbonic thing going on. Maybe some grassy hops underneath. Fizzy body which waters out quickly. Generally boring malty lager.