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Stoudts Smooth Hoperator

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common

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2193.61/5.03.59/5.07.2%90.3Dimpled mug, Stein, Stem glass
Commercial Description:
This medium bodied copper colored strong lager is in a class all by itself. First released in celebration of our 20th Anniversary. Ed Stoudt calls this beer an "American-style Doppelbock" He believes it to be the first high gravity lager brewed with German Malts and American Hops. This brew has a delicate malty palate up front, which is abruptly overshadowed by the dominating ho presence that can be attributed to 1.5lbs/bbl of hops that were added to this brew for aroma & flavor. A hop lover's beer indeed.

Yeast: Bottom Fermenting Lager
Bittering hops: Summit
Aroma hops: Amarillo
Malts: Two-row,Vienna & Others
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 MrBunn (1526), Western, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/515/20
May 6, 2008  
Bottle. Pour is an amber orange with a one-finger beige head. Aromas are crisp and piney hops with some caramel bread maltiness. Flavor is like sucking down a tea made from pine needles and grapefruit rinds with little malt to make things chewy or balanced. It’s not a total pucker, but it could stand a little more beef, at least in my opinion.


 Beerman6686 (1281), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
May 6, 2008  
Pours a cloudy brown color with an off white head. Aroma of piney hops on top is sweet malt. Flavor is sticky sweet malt with a nice hoppy finish. Very interesting hybrid.


 Lowe1983 (1029), Fairborn, Ohio, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/516/20
Apr 28, 2008  
Pours an amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is of sweet and caramel malts with plenty of citrus hops with it. Toffee, caramel malts dominate the flavor at first. Finishes pretty bitter from the citrus hops. A very interesting and different beer.


 keepersj12 (791), Sicklerville, New Jersey, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Apr 27, 2008  
Very hoppy version with not as much malt sweetness as some others. Nice color and head. Very smooth as the name suggests.


 Nephilium (548), Ohio, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Apr 24, 2008  
Nice crisp clean hop aroma, with some grassy notes in it. Pours a clear reddish-amber, with a cap of tight off-white head. Slight caramel flavor to start with, then a huge hop flavor coming in and adding bitterness. Long bitter finish. A great beer, but I wouldn’t call it a Doppelbock... it’s far more in the IPA category in my opinion.


 fiver29 (715), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/514/20
Apr 19, 2008  
On tap pours a copper color with a thin off white head. Smells like a hoppy bock with some malt coming through. Tastes like a sweet malt upfront brew with a hop finish of some citrus. Not bad.


 Cruzan59 (197), Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
Apr 18, 2008  
12oz bottle, take home from the brewery...pours amber-copper in color, white head...nice musty floral aroma...evident flavor of hops, malt, some earthy citrus...thought this was an IPA or Imperial Pils when I got it...very good none-the-less!


 MattShizzle (385), Bernville, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Apr 17, 2008  
Bottle. Dark copper color - clear. Quite good. Nice and hoppy - though not the best flavor hops. Strong maltiness balances this out. Clearly with the hops this isn’t a bock at all, but there is no style name for a beer with high gravity, lots of hops, and a lager.



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