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Shiner 101 Czech Style Pilsner
Spoetzl Brewery
- From:
- Spoetzl Brewery
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Bohemian / Czech Pilsner
Ranked #275 - ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- 79
Ranked #26,422 - Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 13.79%
- Reviews:
- 115
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 18, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 29, 2010
- Wants:
- 11
- Gots:
- 40
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Ratings by Bizz88:
Reviewed by Bizz88 from Colorado
3.1/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.1/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Poured a clear golden yellow with a nice two fingered head leaving a nice lacing throughout the glass. Aromas of light grains and malts. Light on the palate with nice carbonation. Hints of a hoppy citrus finish. Good enough of a brew from the Lone Star State. Found it drinkable.
Jun 10, 2010More User Ratings:
Reviewed by donspublic from Texas
3.52/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from bottle into tulip yields 2+ fingers cream colored head, good retention and lacing. Darkish golden in the glass, severe chill haze. Smells of cracker/bready malt and some noble grassiness, but also a little bit of fruitiness. Taste follows the nose on the grain, not getting any grass/hay or anything you would expect in a czech pils, but there is the grain with some bready malt sweetness, hops more on the floral side. Not a favorite of mine. Wish they would attempt to do a straight up Bohemian pilz, as this is a somewhat bastardized attempt
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3/5 rDev -13.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -13.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A light copper color with professional grade clarity working for it and stiffs out around 1/3" white head. Grain and a noble hop aroma, very feint.
Taste is what you expect from this style, grain, hop bitterness from Europe, mild skunk, lots of carbonation in the mouth feel. These are pretty easy drinking. I prefer it to the Shiner bock, I know that. Light bodied barely toasted malts. Easy enough drinking to qualify as a hot summer kind of beer.
Ultimately, with the ubiquity of Pilsner Urquell, even if "not as good as it used to be" it still delivers better than this beer. Its decent, pretty average, no off flavors.
Jan 13, 2017Taste is what you expect from this style, grain, hop bitterness from Europe, mild skunk, lots of carbonation in the mouth feel. These are pretty easy drinking. I prefer it to the Shiner bock, I know that. Light bodied barely toasted malts. Easy enough drinking to qualify as a hot summer kind of beer.
Ultimately, with the ubiquity of Pilsner Urquell, even if "not as good as it used to be" it still delivers better than this beer. Its decent, pretty average, no off flavors.
Reviewed by Libeertarian from Montana
3.27/5 rDev -6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.27/5 rDev -6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Pours a clear brassy copper, a little dark and red for a pilsner. Head is a greyish light tan, very fluffy with good retention, but not too long before it becomes a micro-lattice of fine bubbles. First waft of smells is crackers and yeast, but then comes sweeter malt character, nearly dark fruit along the lines of certain bocks. Very bready to the taste, with slight rubbery funkiness and cherry-like sweetness that could be off-flavors but do not ruin the beer, just barely distracting from malt tartness and basic mild bitterness. Medium-bodied, sudsy, not the cleanest finish.
Dec 03, 2015Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Colorado
2.06/5 rDev -40.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.06/5 rDev -40.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Brief impressions from a twist-off cap bottle served into a pilsner glass:
Pours a healthy three finger wide head of off-white colour with nice frothiness and sufficient creaminess. Not weak or thin. Leaves light lacing as it recedes. Retention is nice - about 4 minutes.
Body colour is a clear yellow - clearly filtered. Clean and presentable.
Appears well-carbonated (if not overly so). Looks like most pilsners.
AROMA: Buttery diacetyl off-character, pilsner malts, clean barley, and some off-putting malty sweetness. Hopping is minimal and floral rather than grassy. Bready.
The diacetyl turns me off to it.
Aromatic intensity is average.
TASTE: Buttery and strangely bready. The emphasis isn't on the pilsner malts, and the hop profile is overly prominent and has the wrong emphasis - on floral notes rather than grassy notes. Unbalanced.
No yeast character or booze comes through, but diacetyl off-character plagues the beer throughout. Simple and plain (to style).
TEXTURE: Lacks the extreme cleanliness needed in a pilsner. It's oddly medium-bodied rather than light-bodied. Overcarbonated and unrefreshing, with a standard smooth and wet feel. Has a subpar overall presence on the palate. This texture is wrong for the style, and fails to elevate the beer or to accentuate the taste.
OVERALL: More lackluster work from Spoetzl, Shiner 101 can be safely skipped - and the brewers might need to take a decoction 101 class. One of the less appealing pilsners I've tried in recent memory, and strangely undrinkable - which is a crime in a pilsner. Why brew this?
Low D (2.06)
Mar 08, 2015Pours a healthy three finger wide head of off-white colour with nice frothiness and sufficient creaminess. Not weak or thin. Leaves light lacing as it recedes. Retention is nice - about 4 minutes.
Body colour is a clear yellow - clearly filtered. Clean and presentable.
Appears well-carbonated (if not overly so). Looks like most pilsners.
AROMA: Buttery diacetyl off-character, pilsner malts, clean barley, and some off-putting malty sweetness. Hopping is minimal and floral rather than grassy. Bready.
The diacetyl turns me off to it.
Aromatic intensity is average.
TASTE: Buttery and strangely bready. The emphasis isn't on the pilsner malts, and the hop profile is overly prominent and has the wrong emphasis - on floral notes rather than grassy notes. Unbalanced.
No yeast character or booze comes through, but diacetyl off-character plagues the beer throughout. Simple and plain (to style).
TEXTURE: Lacks the extreme cleanliness needed in a pilsner. It's oddly medium-bodied rather than light-bodied. Overcarbonated and unrefreshing, with a standard smooth and wet feel. Has a subpar overall presence on the palate. This texture is wrong for the style, and fails to elevate the beer or to accentuate the taste.
OVERALL: More lackluster work from Spoetzl, Shiner 101 can be safely skipped - and the brewers might need to take a decoction 101 class. One of the less appealing pilsners I've tried in recent memory, and strangely undrinkable - which is a crime in a pilsner. Why brew this?
Low D (2.06)
Shiner 101 Czech Style Pilsner from Spoetzl Brewery
Beer rating:
79 out of
100 with
301 ratings
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