Subsidiaries
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours a cloudy amber with a small, frothy head and aromas of apple juice, punky vegetation and sugary sweetness. Flavor is kind of a mess of sweetness and fruit with a bit of odd vegetation and metal. Still, it is better than the nose would have indicated... still, it could be much bett
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2009
at 21:08
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Sampled at the Hopsnobbery Collective Stout tasting on 01/16/09 (labeled as Schell Stout). The beer is a flat black color with a thin beige head that burns away to an outer ring. Stringy lacing. Aroma of bittersweet chocolate and malt. Medium body with watery moments, and flavors of roasted malt, chocolate and plastic. The finish is anemic with notes of chocolate and mild hops. Simply not up to snuff overall.
Tried
on 19 Jan 2009
at 16:09
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Very pale yellow body with a medium haze to it and a fluffy, white head. Aromas are nice enough… a little bit of grass, some lemon and a touch of corn syrup-like sweetness. Flavor is a bit watery, but pretty good. Underlying the cloves and grass is a light malt sweetness that plays nicely against the spicy yeast and hops. Finishes with a little bit of a banana & lemon fruitiness with some cloves.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2008
at 23:24
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a dark amber with a big (three finger) head. Aromas seem to have pie spice or something to them with a caramel malt sweetness. Flavor is very good, but a bit thin in the finish... caramel malt and nutmeg like spices are interesting and work well together.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2008
at 21:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
ABR 2008. Dry and salty. Cloudy, and pure malt. Very well carbonated. I haven’t had many of this style, but this is similar to the others I have had. A very nice session beer. I love it when Schell’s pulls out these old styles.
Tried
on 12 Oct 2008
at 19:50
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap at Sterbs, as BDR calls it. I like this but it is not as rustic as the description leads one to believe. I thought it was a lager while drinking it. The palate is light, but seems appropriate for the style. Light red color and it does look filtered. The aroma is unmistakably that of a wheat beer with yeast, banana, and clove. Flavor is just a little sweet, again more wheat and I thought this was some kind of wheat beer because it definitely has those characteristics. Lightly roasted, some candy sugar. I like it, and its great that Schell’s tries things like this.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Sep 2008
at 20:24
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pour is a mahogany brown with lots of light coming through and a half inch or so of foam that dies down as I’m typing. Aromas are earthy, nutty and fruity. Flavor is a nice mix of the above, but there is a cherry theme to it that drowns out other stuff. Also, alcohol peeks through as a little bit of an astringent bite... I’d like to see it hidden (at least flavor-wise) a little better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2008
at 21:59
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Interestingly, this is in a clear 12 oz bottle with a twist off cap. Pour is like root beer. Has a very yeasty aroma with possibly some malt olfactory too. Good initial carbonation. Malty flavors on the first taste. Flavor is quite interesting and there does not seem to be any offensive hop bitterness. The taste buds seem to pick up mostly malty and alky flavors, taste seems to have much more alky in it than the 4.8% listed here. Finish is somewhat roasty without being over the top and that alky malty hint hangs for a while after the session.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2008
at 06:24
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Deep golden beer with a metallic-greenish shine; medium fine white head, fed by lively carbonation. ??Very fruity nose at first, with raspberries and exotic fruit; and quite some C-like hops. Later some cardboard, but still quite aromatic. Dry-hoppy Pilsner, "herb" like the best German samples. Bit of pale, not very sweet malts underneath, even a bit toasted. Grapey hops. Spritzy MF & light body, but that is no problem within this style; refreshing. If Pilsners were made more like this one, we wouldn’t look down upon the style so much. Very good orientation, DaveDave!
Tried
on 02 Apr 2008
at 10:26
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Small, yellowish head over amber beer, no visible carbonation. Caramel and really speculoos (gingerbread), faintly sweet-spiced; bit of green shrubbery, molasses. This "Turbinado", whatever it is, completely overwhelms all other flavours, making it unidimensional. The carbonation absent, this seems flat. More speculoos & sweet bread. A little bit burning MF, CO² on the tonguesides, yet the beer seems flat. Belgian Abbey dubbel - THIS? I’m willing to accept it is top-fermented, but it has the character of a filtered, mass-produced Dunkler Bock. You were right, new one, thanks D.A.!
Tried
on 22 Mar 2008
at 10:22