Shiner Bock
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I announced over Twitter that I would be spending a few days in Dallas on business, and I asked for beer suggestions.
Good suggestions came through, including Rahr & Sons and beer bars or restaurants such as the Flying Saucer and The Covey. (These last two are both in neighboring Fort Worth.) But the one beer everyone told me I should drink while in Texas was Shiner Bock, from the Spoetzl Brewery.
The conference schedule kept me on a tight leash, so I largely drank my one beer each day based on where I was having dinner. And Shiner Bock was EVERYWHERE.
I drank it on my first night in Texas, at a barbecue joint that served Shiner in 32 oz mugs. It was easily the biggest single serving of beer that I’ve had all year long — but as they say, everything’s bigger in Texas.
Shiner arrived ice cold, so I could detect little in the way of aroma — as it warmed, more of a caramel profile emerged. The beer was a burnt amber color and looked great, but all I could get from the taste was a watery, caramel sweetness at first. As it warmed, more of a toasted malt flavor and some hop bitterness arrived on the scene.
Mind you, I was eating barbecue ribs and chugging down the biggest beer I’ve had all year — so I wasn’t exactly taking detailed notes, nor was I expecting much. It was a simple beer that paired well with the food, functioning as an empty pallet for my palate.
There seemed little special about the beer other than its ubiquity on every beer menu in town. But hey, drink up — there’s a lot of it!
On a side note, I didn’t find the Flying Saucer, but I did find a great Flying Saucer beer video:
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