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Schnickelfritz
Saucony Creek Brewing Company + Gastropub
- From:
- Saucony Creek Brewing Company + Gastropub
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 12.05%
- Reviews:
- 41
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 24, 2020
- Added:
- Oct 20, 2013
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 31
Pennsylvania German’s translate “Schnickelfritz” to mean a Nix Nux, or a naughty rebellious child who is always getting into trouble. That sums up our family here at Saucony Creek, so in honor of our Pop-Pop’s chocolate covered cherry addiction during the winter months we brewed an Imperial Chocolate Cherry Milk Stout. Schnickelfritz is brewed with dark caramel malts, chocolate malts and lactose to create a smooth creamy mouth feel. Milk chocolate and real cherries are added for a winter warmer treat.
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Reviewed by EMV from Pennsylvania
3.9/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a Dogfish Head tulip
L: Somewhat cloudy black pour with a finger of tannish head. Nice ring of lacing.
S: Chocolate, roast, and cherry.
T.F: Sweet chocolate and roast. The cherry comes through strongly with a bit of tartness. Dark chocolate, lactose, and milk sugars. Medium bodied and smooth. Sweet/tart cherry to finish.
O: A nicely executed sweet/tart cherry milk stout. Tastes a bit like a chocolate covered cherry beer and that's not a terrible thing. Definitely one for dessert.
Oct 24, 2020L: Somewhat cloudy black pour with a finger of tannish head. Nice ring of lacing.
S: Chocolate, roast, and cherry.
T.F: Sweet chocolate and roast. The cherry comes through strongly with a bit of tartness. Dark chocolate, lactose, and milk sugars. Medium bodied and smooth. Sweet/tart cherry to finish.
O: A nicely executed sweet/tart cherry milk stout. Tastes a bit like a chocolate covered cherry beer and that's not a terrible thing. Definitely one for dessert.
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
3.69/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This was poured into a nonic pint glass. The appearance was a fairly dark brown color with a slim finger’s worth of a film of a white head. Lacing quickly slides into the beer. The smell had a nice sweet to roasty blend of chocolate, coffee, light cherries and a light vanilla rounding out and tie-ing it up softly. The taste took all of those previously mentioned flavors to combine and give off a sweet sticky aftertaste leading to a sweet wet finish. On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a pretty good sipping quality about it. Overall, I say this was a pretty good milk/sweet stout showing some nice nuances coming about. Definitely a dessert and can only imagine what it’s like fresh.
Jul 14, 2017Reviewed by stakem from Pennsylvania
3.17/5 rDev -13.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.17/5 rDev -13.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
12oz bottle into a tulip appears dark brown with a khaki head that fades leaving patchy lace.
Aroma is raisony with a slight medicinal aspect and slight chocolate roast. There is a strange burnt herbal thing going on as well. As it breathes it has some licorice aspect.
Taste is earthen and roasty with plenty of fruity alcohol leading to a bit of a medicinal tang about it with a touch of black licorice, smoke and something thar reminds me of jaegermeister mixed with tobacco.
Medium in body with modest carbonation. This is strange and not at all what i was expecing based off the description. I dont meed to have this again.
Feb 17, 2017Aroma is raisony with a slight medicinal aspect and slight chocolate roast. There is a strange burnt herbal thing going on as well. As it breathes it has some licorice aspect.
Taste is earthen and roasty with plenty of fruity alcohol leading to a bit of a medicinal tang about it with a touch of black licorice, smoke and something thar reminds me of jaegermeister mixed with tobacco.
Medium in body with modest carbonation. This is strange and not at all what i was expecing based off the description. I dont meed to have this again.
Reviewed by q33jeff from New Jersey
3.69/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
**
01/10/2015
AROMA: chocolate coffee.toast.
LOOK: Dark black. Small white head.
Taste: some cherry in the Taste Really nice.
Brought by Dylan at Seahawks v Panthers. Divisional round. Go hawks."
**
Oct 22, 201601/10/2015
AROMA: chocolate coffee.toast.
LOOK: Dark black. Small white head.
Taste: some cherry in the Taste Really nice.
Brought by Dylan at Seahawks v Panthers. Divisional round. Go hawks."
**
Reviewed by Dopen993 from Rhode Island
4.22/5 rDev +15.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.22/5 rDev +15.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
12 oz bottle into tulip.
L. Dark brown to black with a finger head and light lacing.
S. Lots of malts on the nose and some nut, but not much else.
T. Tons going on, cherries and chocolate come forward with some vanilla. Light alcohol taste.
F. Lots of carbonation and medium mouth feel.
Jan 22, 2016L. Dark brown to black with a finger head and light lacing.
S. Lots of malts on the nose and some nut, but not much else.
T. Tons going on, cherries and chocolate come forward with some vanilla. Light alcohol taste.
F. Lots of carbonation and medium mouth feel.
Schnickelfritz from Saucony Creek Brewing Company + Gastropub
Beer rating:
83 out of
100 with
238 ratings
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