Twisted Pretzel Wheat
Shock Top Beers in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
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5.78
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Just in time for National Pretzel Day on April 26, Shock Top has united the classic taste of a crisp, cold beer and warm, bakery-fresh pretzels in its newest brew, Shock Top Twisted Pretzel Wheat. The brewer today announced the limited-edition beer, a Belgian-style unfiltered wheat ale that delivers the delicious taste and aroma of fresh pretzels, will be served up at beer festivals nationwide—and available on draught at select locations.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Clear medium brown with medium/small white head. Aroma is salty pretzel, medium body, well carbonation, and good small-bubble lacing. Taste is dark malt, esters, salt, and some butter. Smells pretty close to a pretzel and doesn’t taste completely unlike a pretzel. I would have guessed a dunkleweizen. Expectations were low, so this is pretty good and a nice surprise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2015
at 21:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft. A- Pretzels, bread, dough, slightly salty. A- Brown color, hazy liquid, off white head. T- Bread, subtle salt, malty, wheat. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, soft finish. O- This is definitely a novelty and admittedly one I have wanted to try. I must say, it’s worth trying. It literally smells like a pretzel. Doesn’t quite translate into the taste, and maybe that’s a good thing but it really wasn’t bad. I wouldn’t buy a full six pack or their sampler just to get it but if I can find a single of it I wouldn’t hesitate to grab it for fun.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Nov 2015
at 21:45
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle: Pours clear, very deep brown-amber with a really large beige head. The aroma is the high point of this one.....spot on, fresh, pretzel.... Taste is less pretzel-y..... though it’s still there....sweet wheat malt, caramel, toasted bread....salted butter.... I’ll say this, it delivers what it’s name promises....and it’s pretty tasty..... A really nice AB product........I really enjoyed it....well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2015
at 18:43
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a clear, dark Amber with minimal head. Aroma of salted popcorn with a hint of caramel. Taste is light sweet, follows aroma. Meh, i can see how there is some pretzel but I’m pretty much just popcorn.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2015
at 23:13
2.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 1
Texture 6
Overall 0.5
Anyone who knows me knows I’m loathe to drain pour a beer. It just feels like hard earned money going down the drain. Reminds me of a story of my friends Peter and Valerie, who tinkered with homebrewing back in the 90’s. I don’t think they were interested in crafty beer so much as cutting into their alcohol budget which explains why they once tried to brew an extra strong beer that came out tasting of bubblegum and fusel alcohol. They called it chiclet in tribute but they didn’t like it. But I loved it and would drink a bomber of it every time I came over for a visit. This was way before I ever knew much about beer, so I didn’t even know it was an accidental Belgian strong ale. But what if they didn’t have me? Poor chiclet might have sat in their basement til they decided to pour it out and move on. A more extreme example is another friend who tried a recipe that failed and ended up feeding it to the dog. I’ve heard of old ladies who salt their beer but I never heard of a home brew experiment going wrong to where salty, buttery diacetyl, acetaldehyde and vegetal DMS all came together in just the right way to make granny think hey this tastes like the salty beer I drink with my pretzels, but what if there’s no granny? Can we just sell it as pretzel beer? You know what I don’t like? Those buttered popcorn flavored jelly beans. This beer tastes like that. And its ugly too.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Dec 2014
at 16:07
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle. Pours a clear amber with a thin white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of caramel, wheat and toasted bread, pretzel like indeed. The taste is wheat, caramel, spice, salt, stone fruit, burnt popcorn. Thin bodied. A novelty for sure but not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2014
at 16:41
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pour is a dark brown with a small white head. Aroma is kinda like a pretzel. Flavor is exactly like a hot soft pretzel. Doughy, with that brown outside taste down to the salt on the outside. Like many have said there is no way you would drink a six pack of this let alone a 12 oz bottle. A small sample is plenty. It’s a gimmick sure but I can’t knock it too bad since it’s exactly as advertised.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2014
at 14:50