Trail Ale
Spoetzl Brewery (Shiner) in Shiner, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
6.84
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Take a hike with Trail Ale, a full-bodied ale that serves as the perfect hiking partner. Brewed with nuts, dried fruit and chocolate, out latest seasonal beer combines all your favorite outdoor flavors. into a beer that tastes just as good on and off the rail.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Clear, dark brown with a three finger, off white head. Aroma is mostly sweet chocolate. Taste is milk chocolate, nuts and slight bitter finish.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2025
at 05:38
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle off clearance rack. Pop the lid and a beautiful chocolate aroma permeates the atmosphere. Its also got a very nice appeal to the eye, all darker beer and such. Yes, first taste is chocolate, but not as beautiful as the nose. The odd bitter chocolate thing is totally in the front and I'm not sure if I can pick out any of the other stuff that's supposed to be in there. Yea, so much chocolate forward, it really takes some hunting to find the nuts and fruit. In the middle I'm getting a warming sensation down and into the gullet. A little bit of unexpected bitterness starts to show it self on the finish. Not the best choco beer I've had but it aint too bad either. Has a mouth coating character about it. Its listed as a brown ale here but I'm not too sure if this is what it is. I guess it depends on the meaning of what is, is. It's brown, but I'd say its some kind of pastry thang.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2024
at 19:46
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Brown with orange highlights and a large foamy tan head that lingered. Sweet and toasty with tobacco, fruit, but, caramel and mild astringency. Very long finish. Medium bodied and smooth.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2023
at 15:32
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pour is a dark brown with a large tan head. Aroma is a super sweet Hershey chocolate syrup. Flavor is pretty much sweet chocolate syrup. Way too sweet to be enjoyable.
Tried
on 15 Apr 2023
at 22:25
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz. can from Publix. Pours a crystal clear reddish-copper color with a khaki head and good retention. Almost no lacing. Nuts and brown sugar aroma. The flavor is very sweet caramel and milk chocolate with some background nuts and molasses notes. I don't taste the dried fruit. No bitterness. Medium body. Low carbonation. Slick mouthfeel. Very clean and smooth. The 6.0% ABV is invisible. Good dessert beer, but too sweet for repeated consumption.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Mar 2023
at 23:12
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 12 oz bottle poured into a glass. Clear medium brown with small beige head. Aroma is nuts, medium body, medium/lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is nuts and fruits.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2023
at 00:38
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
tap at Mermaid Tavern in Tampa. Solid Brown Ale - what i expect of this style.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Mar 2023
at 02:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Light and pretty clear brown coloured body with a very thinnish, single to perhaps two centimetre tall off-white and tan head. Aroma of pure granola, oatmeal and super rustic, chewy and nutty, earthy notes with some light fruits here as well, but a lot of yeast and malt notes here for sure and seemingly a big rich beer. Medium to perhaps even Full-bodied; Rich granola and oaty malt flavours dominate with a rich, rustic and earthy profile with a ton of nuts as well and a very pungent bite of actual 'trail mix', complete with some nuts, chocolate candy and especially dried fruits, but the rich malt is super strong and driving the flavour. Aftertaste shows some good and rich oat complexity with perhaps a bit too strong of a flavour for me along with a relatively pungent dried fruit note and some additional brown sugars and caramel notes towards the end with big rich yeast as well. Overall, a nice, but way too rich, way too pungent granola, oaty and especially nutty, rustic beer that shows much too strong for me, even though it isn't so hard drinking, and I do like trail mix, this was still too strong. I sampled this twelve ounce can, given to me after a hockey game on 15-February-2023 in Arlington (Ballston), Virginia - Thanks Jacob!
Tried
from Can
on 19 Feb 2023
at 16:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pecan, raisin, chocolate malt, and hay aroma. Dark brown with large light brown head. Moderately sweet pecan/peanut, dried fruit, chocolate malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2023
at 23:04
7/10
Reddish pour. Malt flavor. Sweet flavor of cream and malt. Sweet malt on palate
Tried
on 26 Jan 2023
at 01:30