Shiner Bock | Spoetzl Brewery / Shiner

3.52/5  rDev +15.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

5/5  rDev +63.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

2.69/5  rDev -11.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

3.18/5  rDev +4.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

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01/15/2013
AROMA: Beer
LOOK: light brown color
TASTE: Crisp taste with a bit of creaminess. Corn, Sweet vegetables, wheat. Actually very refreshing.
On Tap at Texas Road House.

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08/12/17
Bottle to pint glass, Texas Roadhouse.

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2.71/5  rDev -11.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

Poors a nice dark color. Smells ok. Not getting much nuttiness or notes of anything really. Have had much better.

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3.12/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

Pours a deep amber with an inch and a half off white head that left little lacing. Smells of molasses and lightly roasted malts. Flavor is on the sweet side with notes of caramel, molasses, lightly roasted malts, nuttiness and a very minimal hop presence. Light bodied, thin mouth feel, light carbonation. Rather simplistic bock.

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3.51/5  rDev +15.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Poured into a lager glass, the appearance was a semi-glossy dark burnt red almost brown color with a light transparency along the edges. Just a finger's worth of white foamy head that slid off at a moderate pace to leave some messy lace.
The aroma had some sweet dark bready qualities, dried caramel malts, brisk sweet to roasty nuts and a touch of dried yeastiness. Super light grassy hops shine through some earthiness.
The flavor leaned towards the sweet side initially and then developed decently through all of the previously mentioned aromas sweet to bready to light grassiness and a moderate earthiness. Aftertaste blended all of those flavors together and added in a hint of metallic qualities.
The mouthfeel was almost medium bodied, seeming to sit just a touch under to give way to a pretty good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt a bit under, but didn't bother me. Cloying qualities didn't show as I thought they would. Pretty smooth along my tongue.
Overall, as a bock, I'd say it did the trick for the most part except for that metallic aftertaste, oh nuts, and this could be a great one if Shiner got that out.

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2.72/5  rDev -10.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75

3.33/5  rDev +9.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25

3.6/5  rDev +18%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

3.47/5  rDev +13.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

3.79/5  rDev +24.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75

Like flavor...give me more ABV

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3.03/5  rDev -0.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

3.67/5  rDev +20.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75

This is not the most fancy of beer nor is it particularly complex, but it's an easily drinkable bock and a nice accompaniment to food. Fairly malty, with perhaps not a great deal of bitterness but other wise an OK drink.

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3.18/5  rDev +4.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25

4.34/5  rDev +42.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

3.69/5  rDev +21%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

2.89/5  rDev -5.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3

3.7/5  rDev +21.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Very good tasting beer and consistently good as well.

I was impressed by the nice yellow label, awesome!! Maybe if they had handmade, knitted sleeves to put over the bottles.......

The cap was circular. wow. You just dont see that in beers. It kept the foam and its "lacing" in the bottle.

The glass bottle was brown, a good start, given all the worthless green bottles being used today.

Thanks Shiner, you make Texas, Austria and your ancestors very proud.

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3.3/5  rDev +8.2%
look: 5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

3.51/5  rDev +15.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

This isn't the greatest bock I've ever had, but it is nostalgic and I love it. I used to seem to always have a six pack of Shiner in my fridge when I lived stateside.

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3.7/5  rDev +21.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75

2.54/5  rDev -16.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.5

Pours an amber/dark brown into a fifteen ounce glass mug the same temperature as the beer. Two finger off white head that settles to a steady rime. Some spotty lacing which I find surprising.

The nose is sweet lightly toasted malt. No hops discernible. Brown sugar. Molasses.

Taste follows the nose with a brown sugar (caramel) flavor with a heavy dose of molasses. No hop bitterness at all. Buttery. Slight carbonation bite.

Medium mouthfeel with lots of carbonation.

A poor stab at the bock style. Entirely too sweet and throughly unbalanced. No second try on this one.

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3.33/5  rDev +9.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25

3.59/5  rDev +17.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5