Shiner Mint Chocolate Cookie
Spoetzl Brewery
- From:
- Spoetzl Brewery
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.42 | pDev: 7.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 23, 2026
- Added:
- Nov 05, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Robust and full bodied, this seasonal brew drinks like a smooth, velvety treat. Subtle notes of peppermint pair with semi-sweet chocolate for a brew that's sure to tempt your tastebuds. With a chocolate aroma, a soft creamy head, and a slightly sweet finish, this brew is sure to go down smooth. Prosit!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by cyclonece09 from Wisconsin
3.59/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a bottle into a pint glass. Pours pitch black with a small light brown head. Smells of Andes candies in a tiny bit of malt. Tastes of sweet candy chocolate, little bit of malt and mint aftertaste. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation. Overall, an above average beer.
Jan 23, 2026
Reviewed by DarkLordScott from Wisconsin
3.88/5 rDev +13.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +13.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
This brew pours darker than imagined with a thick one and a half finger head. Aroma is mint and chocolate. Taste matches the smell, though the mouthfeel is closer to a milk stout.
Jan 15, 2026
Reviewed by Franziskaner from Missouri
3.47/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.47/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Black in color with a faint trace of off white. The aroma is of sharp mint and milk chocolate. I’m tasting milk chocolate with some dull mint. The mouth is silky smooth and viscous.
Dec 25, 2025
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
3.06/5 rDev -10.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.06/5 rDev -10.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Shiner Mint Chocolate Cookie from Spoetzl Brewery. Mixed twelve-pack of 12 fl oz bottles, picked up 06/11/25, at HEB, New Braunfels, TX, 13/11/25, $21.33 (including tax)/$ 0.146/fl oz. Reviewed 16/11/25, review 3632. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Individual bottles undated, but box is stamped “03/11/26.” Stored at home at 37 degrees F. Served at 51.2 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature is 55.2 degrees F.
Appearance – 3.5
First pour – Medium Amber (SRM 12), clear.
Body – Brown (SRM 20), opaque Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, medium amber and clear at the edges.
Head – Average (Maximum 1.2 cm, aggressive center pour). Tan, medium density, short retention, leaving 0.3 cm crown and a thin partial cap.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3 – Initially bitter chocolate, quickly giving away to an odd chemical smell, no malt, no hops, no alcohol (5.0% ABV according to the label).
Flavor – 3 – Begins with bitter chocolate – ends the same. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. No mint. No gastric warming.
Palate – 3.25 – Thin: Watery: Lively carbonation.
Style: Somewhat follows the vague BA style description.
Final impression and summation: 3 Uncredited art work. Bitter chocolate, no mint – not good – borderline undrinkable.
Nov 16, 2025Individual bottles undated, but box is stamped “03/11/26.” Stored at home at 37 degrees F. Served at 51.2 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature is 55.2 degrees F.
Appearance – 3.5
First pour – Medium Amber (SRM 12), clear.
Body – Brown (SRM 20), opaque Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, medium amber and clear at the edges.
Head – Average (Maximum 1.2 cm, aggressive center pour). Tan, medium density, short retention, leaving 0.3 cm crown and a thin partial cap.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3 – Initially bitter chocolate, quickly giving away to an odd chemical smell, no malt, no hops, no alcohol (5.0% ABV according to the label).
Flavor – 3 – Begins with bitter chocolate – ends the same. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. No mint. No gastric warming.
Palate – 3.25 – Thin: Watery: Lively carbonation.
Style: Somewhat follows the vague BA style description.
Final impression and summation: 3 Uncredited art work. Bitter chocolate, no mint – not good – borderline undrinkable.
Rated by GStone899 from Minnesota
3.23/5 rDev -5.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.23/5 rDev -5.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
It's a very mint chocolate beer that's for sure..mint is a bit overpowering.
Nov 09, 2025
Reviewed by AdmiralOzone from Minnesota
3.59/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Pours clear dark brown with a thick but short-lived mocha head. No real lacing. Aroma is dark chocolate, hint of mint. Flavor follows the nose, slightly sweet with little to no bitterness. Feel is medium bodied and lightly but adequately carbonated. Overall, not that impressive but drinkable and fun.
Nov 05, 2025
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