Snickerdoodle
Community Beer Company

 

 

Poured from can into tulip, good 2 finger cream colored head, soso retention, good lacing. Golden in the glass, slight chill haze. Big cinnamon and vanilla on the nose with some slight bready notes. Taste follows the nose, sweet malt in the front followed by a punch of cinnamon and vanilla. Some caramel peeks thru in the middle and it finishes with a spicy finish, perhaps due to carbonation. Drinks on the dry side and not a bad beer, this could have been cloying, but it isn't.

 

 

 

Appearance: Golden orange, with a robust, somewhat coarse off-white head, which slowly fades to a scattering of foam on the surface. There is a decent ring of foam about the glass wall, with the lacing a finely-beaded, all-but unbroken sheet.

Aroma: Caramel, sugar, cinnamon, ginger vanilla, and doughy malt, all very much like Christmas cookie dough.

Taste: Opens with broad notes of cinnamon and ginger, soon followed by vanilla, brown sugar and doughy malt. There is an effect of the taste that makes me think of the sugar sprinkles that commonly decorate holiday cookies. In all the effect is remarkable, to make one think of drinking a Christmas cookie, a masterful accomplishment. Finishes with a lingering, mild , lingering herbal hop note, and a bit of ginger.

Mouth feel: Smooth and pleasant, with a little zesty carbonation for interest.

Drinkability/notes: This is really quite an accomplishment of brewing, an ale that is so reminiscent of a Christmas cookie. Very well done.

Presentation: Packaged in a standard twelve-ounce aluminum can, served in a Duvel chalice.

 

 

Served on tap in a pint glass
Appearance – The beer is served a lightly hazed amber color with a one finger head of white foam. The head has a decent level of retention, slowly fading over time to leave almost no lace on the sides of the glass
Smell – The aroma of the brew is strong of a cinnamon smell mixed with lots of doughy malt and some brown sugar and caramel sweetness. Overall the aroma is very akin to a snickerdoodle cookie. Quite delicious.
Taste – The taste begins with very sweet caramel and brown sugar flavor mixed with a little bit of a molasses and cinnamon taste. The base is also heavy of a bready and doughy flavor which complement the sweet rather well. The cinnamon, while heavy in the nose, is very light upfront, with it getting slightly more potent as the taste moves forward. All the while the doughiness gets a bit stronger and leaves one with a sweet and lightly cinnamon spiced taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is chewy and thick with a carbonation level that is rather low. For the cookie like taste and the cinnamon spice, the feel is great and makes for a very nice dessert like brew.
Overall – While the taste is not like a snickerdoodle in a glass it is quite nice and makes for a rather nice dessert like brew overall.

 

Notes from 1/10/2020.
Poured from a 12oz can into a tulip glass.
It pours a deep golden with two fingers of white foam receding at an average rate with a small amount of thick lacing. 4.00
The aroma is a bit less than moderate in strength. It smells like a snickerdoodle cookie with notes of vinegar around it. I was going to give the aroma a 4.00 but the vinegar smell would pop up right before taking a sip. It reminds me too much of drinking apple cider vinegar. 3.00
The taste is a bit less than medium in strength. The snickerdoodle taste is just like you would expect but without much sweetness. 3.75
The mouth feel is a little less an medium with light carbonation. 3.00
Overall, I probably would have liked it more without the vinegr notes. 2.75

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can from a beer store in Austin, TX:

This could easily have been cloyingly sweet additive-ridden swill, but I'm shocked how genuine its flavours are, This is a beer I need to revisit in finer grain to properly condone. The premise may seem gimmicky, but damn if the execution isn't solid.

B / GOOD