Prickly Pear
Spoetzl Brewery (Shiner) in Shiner, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
5.74
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This small batch brew is the third in our Limited Edition Brewer’s Pride Craft Brew Series. A combination of Citra and US Golding hops gives this refreshing lager its citrus flavor and floral aroma. The brew’s signature tartness comes from the fruit of the prickly pear, a cactus native to our brewery’s landscape that’s hearty, rugged and unmistakably unique - qualities we surely appreciate. Prosit!
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Rich amber beer with a cream head. Malt and light fruity aroma. Malt and mineral flavor with fruitiness. Medium bodied. Malt and mineral linger with light grain and fruitiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2013
at 16:31
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle slight hazy light orange short lived light tan head Tart light fruit aroma. Dry unsweetened light fruit flavors Pale plain base.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2013
at 17:45
4.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Bottle. Cactus fruit (berry and apple) aroma. Golden yellow with huge off-white head. Mildly sweet cactus fruit and malt flavor. Very light body. Nothing unpleasant but extremely light.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2013
at 18:41
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a clear dark amber with minimal head. Aroma is sweet, fruity and malty. Taste is liggt bitter with a sweet finish. Weird chemical flavors up front with a little cotton candy and pear flavored hard candy in the finish. Its getting much more fruitier as it warms up though. Light bodied with a thin texture. Fizzy carbonation and a long finish. Shiner is usually pretty solid, even though most of the beers are really intro to craft stuff, but this is not good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2013
at 19:13
7.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 7
Pours clear, deep amber with a puffy white head. Niced, strong sweet pear aroma....like an asian pear... Taste is just simply pear....not too sweet, malty. Refreshing and tasty. Quite enjoyable.
Tried
on 29 Apr 2013
at 18:13
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Orange-yellow colour with small beige foamy head, overpowering sweet fruity aroma, low carbonation, surprisingly non-sweet taste with very floral flavour, abrupt finish with enduring floral taste in mouth. Very unusual beer reminiscent of lambic beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2013
at 12:34
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
What an unusual beer, and some interesting character. The prickly pear was hard to describe, and possibly hard to separate from the Citra hops, but its not clear the hops contributed much. The fruit was a combination of some sour citrus (lemon, grapefruit juice), something vaguely tropical (pineapple, guava), and something vaguely related to apple (green apple, pear), and something else altogether different. It featured prominently in the nose and flavor, and contributed a light sweet and sour component that blended well with a fair if unremarkable base beer that was light amber malted.
Tried
on 11 Jan 2013
at 06:24
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity slightly sweetish pear aroma. Sweetish malty fruity pear flavor. Has a sweetish malty fruity spicy pear finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2013
at 02:10
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is citric fruity and perfumed. Pears and cactus apparently. Citrusy, fruity, perfumed and peachy. Light bitter and perfumed fruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2012
at 10:46
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottled. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of caramel, malt, and straw. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, metal, and straw, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2012
at 10:44