Sea Salt & Lime
Spoetzl Brewery (Shiner) in Shiner, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
6.24
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Our latest summer seasonal is here just in time to cool you down. Meet Sea Salt & Lime Summer Lager. A refreshing new brew with a dash of sea salt and a squeeze of lime to keep things interesting. Enjoy it while you can - unlike summer, this won't be around long.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled from a bottle this beer poured a cloudy bright golden color with a huge foamy orange-white head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was sweet with sugar, salt and lime notes. The flavor was sweet and yeasty with sugar, salt and lime. Long finish. Medium body. Better than expected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2018
at 22:18
5/10
It's not good, but it's what I need right now.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jul 2018
at 15:23
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, best before 9/29/2018. Pours slightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of lightly tart limes, lemon, citrus peel, sea salt, cracker, white bread dough, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance of lime peels, salt, pale malts, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of lightly tart limes, lemon, citrus peel, sea salt, cracker, white bread dough, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, grassy, spicy, citrus peel bitterness; and light citrus tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart limes, lemon, citrus peel, sea salt, cracker, white bread dough, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great robustness and balance of lime peels, salt, pale malts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitter/tartness balance; and zero astringent flavors after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with no yeast notes present. Moderate increasing dryness from bitter/tartness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/sticky, and lightly saline/acidic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4%. Overall this is an excellent fruited pale lager! All around great robustness and balance of lime peels, salt, pale malts, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Perfectly balanced pils malt, lime peel, and salt; with nice earthy hop presence/balance for the style. This is the best lager I've had from them. The citrus complements perfectly, and not overwhelming on salt. A very enjoyable offering, and awesome style example. Perfect for summer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2018
at 20:57
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
I always liked shiner beers so I was looking forward to this bottle. I was hoping for something like a gose when I saw this. Not much aroma to speak of. Clear pale with an ever so slight haze. Yes, first taste, so its not really a gose. It is a gentle lager with a little lime flavor. Not really sure that I can pick out the salt, but I guess its there hiding in the background. Has a little bit of lime rind bitterness in there as well. Overall, a gentle beer with some citrus rind in the background. Not a gose by any stretch of the imagination. Oh well. Still, overall, not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2018
at 22:35