Shiner 101 Czech Style Pilsner
Spoetzl Brewery

Shiner 101 Czech Style PilsnerShiner 101 Czech Style Pilsner
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From:
Spoetzl Brewery
 
Texas, United States
Style:
Bohemian / Czech Pilsner
Ranked #277
ABV:
4.8%
Score:
79
Ranked #26,461
Avg:
3.48 | pDev: 13.79%
Reviews:
115
Ratings:
301
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 18, 2023
Added:
Jan 29, 2010
Wants:
  11
Gots:
  40
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Ratings by heath1agnew:
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Reviewed by heath1agnew from Texas

4.3/5  rDev +23.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
For what this beer is, it is very good. The appear is golden yellow with a head that shows up and fades after a while. Smells like grains, maybe light hops. The taste is excellent for what it is, toasty flavor with hops way in the background in the finish. Mouthfeel was clean, light and crisp. Drinkability is top notch. Excellent session beer.
Jul 02, 2010
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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
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

Advent 2023-14
Dec 18, 2023
 
Rated: 3.8 by farmboy21 from Illinois

Nov 23, 2023
 
Rated: 3.53 by LXIXME from New Mexico

Nov 22, 2023
 
Rated: 4.12 by charger88 from Texas

Nov 16, 2023
 
Rated: 3.5 by RiceOwls27 from Texas

Mar 31, 2020
 
Rated: 3.48 by rsuarez1982 from Texas

Apr 24, 2017
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

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, 2017
 
Rated: 3.59 by Squire from Mississippi

May 22, 2016
 
Rated: 3 by Whiskeydeez from Kansas

May 19, 2016
 
Rated: 3.39 by Zylod from West Virginia

Jan 02, 2016
 
Rated: 3.56 by boku56 from Nevada

Dec 14, 2015
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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
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, 2015
 
Rated: 3.42 by Two10tim from Minnesota

Nov 02, 2015
 
Rated: 3 by jpuetz from South Dakota

Aug 10, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by ovaltine from Indiana

May 26, 2015
 
Rated: 3.7 by acbe from Texas

May 18, 2015
 
Rated: 3.23 by TheBeard89 from Alabama

Apr 01, 2015
 
Rated: 2.91 by MKrauss from Pennsylvania

Mar 26, 2015
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Colorado

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, 2015
Shiner 101 Czech Style Pilsner from Spoetzl Brewery
Beer rating: 79 out of 100 with 301 ratings