Shiner Fröst
Spoetzl Brewery
- From:
- Spoetzl Brewery
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- European / Dortmunder Export Lager
Ranked #52 - ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- 81
Ranked #35,501 - Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 15.36%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 100
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 21, 2026
- Added:
- Dec 27, 2009
- Wants:
- 24
- Gots:
- 31
SCORE
81
Good
81
Good
When the weather outside matches the weather in your fridge, you know it's time to enjoy a nice Shiner Frost. This deliciously distinctive seasonal brings a hint of malty sweetness that quickly fades to show a crisp, hoppy character. It's chock-full of frosty goodness to pair perfectly with frosty days.
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Reviewed by Franziskaner from Missouri
3.78/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Copper colored with excellent clarity and a fingernail of off white around the rim and covering three quarters of the top. The aroma is of light malt and marzipan. I’m tasting marzipan and toffee. The mouth is crisp and approachable.
Feb 08, 2026
Rated by GStone899 from Minnesota
3.68/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
A poor man's dortmunder. Nothing wrong with it - enjoyable just not refined like a lot of top tiers in the style.
Nov 16, 2025
Rated by DoctorRobert1969 from California
3.5/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Malty. A bit watery. Easy drinker with solid flavor.
Sep 30, 2025
Reviewed by WoodBrew from Ohio
3.69/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
I am trying a bottle of this beer from a mixed Christmas holiday 12pck that I bought from my local meijer store. It poured a clear amber with thin white head that is not leaving much lace. The scent had dark Euro malt notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with crisp dark Euro malt base with grain and bittering hop finish. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a great beer.
Dec 24, 2024
Reviewed by AdmiralOzone from Minnesota
3.55/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Pours a beautiful clear orange/amber color with a thick but short-lived off-white head. Aroma is malt, bread, and a hint of earthy hops. Flavor follows the nose, sweet and malty, slight hop bite in the finish. Feel is light and well carbonated. Overall, pretty good.
Nov 13, 2024
Reviewed by cyclonece09 from Wisconsin
3.75/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a bottle into a pint glass. Pours deep red orange with a fluffy white head. Smells of caramelized grain, inviting. Tastes of caramelized grain with nice hints of fruit. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation. Overall a good beer.
Dec 26, 2023
Reviewed by donspublic from Texas
3.74/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Poured from bottle into tulip, nice 1+ finger cream colored head, so so retention nice lacing. Dark amberish golden in the glass, hazy to look at. Bready malts on the nose, pretty much it. Nice malt sweetness on the front end, baked bread, slight tartness carries thru to the end where there is a nice firm bitterness. Some light notes of toffee, and lemon linger throughout which is welcome and prevents it from going flabby. Good strong carbonation scrubs the tongue at the end. There is a mild sweetness afterwards on the palate, but welcomed.
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Reviewed by RonaldTheriot from Louisiana
4.16/5 rDev +16.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.16/5 rDev +16.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Shiner Frost has a thick, off-white head and an opaque, orange appearance, with noticeable tan, yeast chunks and lacing. The aroma is of bright cereal grains. The flavor is of glutinous cereal and some bitterness. Shiner Frost has a medium body and a mostly-dry finish.
RJT
Oct 17, 2023RJT
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