Brooklyn Silver Anniversary Lager

Brooklyn Silver Anniversary Lager

The Brooklyn Brewery is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. We are fortunate to be a part of the incredible cultural renaissance Brooklyn has enjoyed during the last quarter century. Four great Brooklyn artists whom we met along the way—Fred Tomaselli, Roxy Paine, Joe Amhrein and Elizabeth Crawford—have created special labels for our Silver Anniversary Lager beer. We are saluting our beginnings with a special doppelbock version of the Brooklyn Lager we introduced in 1988. This beer is re-fermented in the bottle and will taste great today or years from now. The original was inspired by the beers of 19th Century New York and Vienna.
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333 reviews
Brooklyn, United States

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3.6 Copper color with an off-white head. Strong hop aroma with resinous and pine notes. Medium body. Some caramel sweetness. Drinks more like an IPA than a doppelbock in my opinion.
3.6 Bottle at Grand Tasting, RBSCSG 2015 in Gothenburg. Pours hazy light brown with a small white head. Smells dry fruity hoppy and a bit canned fruit. Tastes dry fruity hoppy with a mild bitter finish.
3.6 750ml bottle - $15.99 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia. Appearance: Pours an orange-amber body in color, a bit hazy, with a thick, lasting off-white head. Smell: A nose of chopped candied fruits, ground spices and warmed sugars with a soak of spiking sherry ahead of the blend of bready, toasty, biscuity malts. Taste: A bready, toasted malt with a touch of blonde sugars. Varied dark fruitiness of figs and dates with some orangy, citrusy undertones felt. Herbed, earthy hop character, though only a medium-light bitterness. And, once the heat of the alcohol bubbles into the picture (though not quite boozy), it takes on a fruitcake like quality. Small hit of anise on the fruity, lingering finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium carbonation. Overall: It’s fine, I suppose, though it falls a wee bit short of its price-tag. As it’s to be an amped up Brooklyn Lager, I’d have preferred a six-pack of its origin story beer at less than half the cost.
3.5 Bottle, sample @ RBScSG ’15. Light golden pour with a light head. Notes of grains, floral, straw and some syrup.
3.1 Bottle at Grand Tasting, RBSCSG 2015 cons 2015-07-11 Göteborg AR: bitter, syrup bread (apk limpa) AP: hazy brown, ... F: bready syrup, old buttery, roasted malt
3.7 Sampled at RBScSG -15 Hazy amber with a small head. A bit sweetish aroma and flavour. Toffee and brown sugar. Medium bitterness.
4.3 Remarkably maltiness that I will surely revisit another time or two. Home of Sorachi Ace, one of my all-time favorites. Yes, Doppelbock is a Lager and this is a HUGE doppelbock!
3.5 Medium amber with a white lasting head. Aroma of orange, toffee and sweet caramell. Taste supplied by nuts, yeast and an earthly overlayer. Aftertaste dry and sweet malt.
3.6 KRS 311214. Amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is berries, malt, hop, herbs. Flavour is berries, malt, hop, herbs, caramel, hop, orange, toffee, bread. Full body. Nice beer.
4.2 Brown body, very nice looking. Biscuit malts, very interesting yeast, bit nutty, some interesting hops. English? Really good development. Mouth feels is smooth yet with enough bubbles. Much more bitterness that I expected, and I really enjoy that. Unique brew, combination of styles and it really works. (Shared by and with VDuquerroux, thanks!)
4.1 Thumbs up to this product, was given to me on my birthday from a couple oif friend. Really likes it, so I’m grateful that my friends got me to open up my eyes for the Brooklyn Brewery.
3.3 Bottle from Total Wine shared at Adam’s house. Pours a lighter orange with a serious head. Some lacing. Nose is fruity with orange and mango with a slight hop pineness and oxidation. Taste is some fruit like orange and mango with a hop pineness, cardboard, and cereal grains. Rather oxidized. A sort of papery, cardboard finish. Mediocre.
3.3 Lasting thin almond coloured head atop a cloudy orange brown body. Nose of nail polish, cantaloupe and smooth malt. Good? Very fruity and somewhat toasted? Really strange.
3.2 750ml bottle from Brewmaster’s in Wilson. Dark orange hue, murky clarity with mostly lasting one finger thick off-white head. Okay lacing. Sweet floral, malt and a hint of orange hop aroma. Sweet light fruit and some spice up front with more of a grape finish.
3.5 Aroma is light roasted malts, clove and honey. Taste is light sweet malts, honey, a light earthiness and subtle dark fruits and apple. Appearance is a hazy bronze with a medium pearl head that retains fairly well.
3.4 Bottled. Deep golden colour, small head, which disappears quite fast. Aroma is sweet malts, some alcohol, a bit fruity and floral notes along with some raisins as well as toffee. Flavour is being quite similar, but suits together rather well in a nice sweetness to it.
3.7 Nice malty aroma with a hint of candied fruit and fig. Beautiful color and lacing. Average weight palate and carbonation. Bold lager flavors with a strong malt earthiness but not too musty. The alcohol was felt but not boozy. Hops make a minor presence.
3.3 Bottle. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty caramel spicy aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor. Has a sweetish malty spicy caramel finish.
3.5 Hazyish orange, folded white ringed head. Lean fuzzy mandarin malt nose. Snappy bitterness. Slight gummy citrus. Fairly softly spoken carbonation. Finish is clean melon, soft grapefruit bite - this is got some decent teeth without showing the ABV. Bottle, Cheers Ash, Pizza Bread Tasting
4.0 Bottle at Craig’s house. Appearance - deep amber with a decent head. Nose - pine and gentle citrus with a toffee backdrop. Taste - lovely dry pine finish after rich toffee start. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a long dry finish. Overall - brilliant balance between rich and fresh.
3.5 Bottle. Amber with white head. Fruity caramel aroma, bread. Taste is weird, dried fruit, caramel. Little sweet and bitter.
3.1 Bottle at Craig’s. Pours hazy orange, nose is sweet toffee, citrus, taste is juicy citrus, dr
3.3 bottle at homr ... copper ... thin off white head ... soft orange zezt fruit ... soft fruits ... soft sweeet malts .. soft orange .. light fruits ... soft toffee .. light sweet ,alts
3.9 Pours beautiful amber, beautiful foamy head. Nice. Aroma is sweet, fruity, soft like a pillow. Taste has caramel, toffee, even some muted bitterness like a lager but its not like a lager at all. Strong lager, drinking really well. Average body. You can feel the alcohol but if to say that this has 9%, would not believe that. Goes down even too effortlessly.
3.8 Bottle, thanks Skip. Hoppy aroma, fruity, berries, yeasty. Taste is good, hoppy, wheaty graininess. Nice. Hides the percentage. Smooth and soft.
3.6 Medium Amber color. Light medium color. Very malty minerally but with fruity character like a steam beer. Alcohol really well hidden for the style. Nice stuff.
3.5 Dark golden with a white head - Sweet malt aroma - Good sweet malt body with some caramel and dark fruits - Good malt finish that lasts for some time - This was good
3.3 huge frothy offwhite head. excellent lacing. mostly diminishing. translucent thick dark orange body. aroma: heavy toasted malt, milk chocolate, mild coffee, citrus orange. if: moderate sweet light bitter. ff: light sweet moderate bitter; long duration. palate: light medium body, watery/oily texture, lively carbonation, moderate alcoholic finish. Dulçor maltado, lembrando avelã. Amargor gredoso, amadeirado – no final da primeira caneca sente-se nuances de lúpulo presentes em IPAs. Dulçor é também cítrico, lembrando algo de laranja. Médio aquecimento alcoólico, não escondendo o teor de 8,6%. O dulçor de malte tostado é bem fiel aos ditames do estilo. Há um embate entre lúpulo e malte no final da primeira caneca, com aquele quase sobrepujando este, o que não deveria acontecer. Na segunda caneca, o sabor frutado de laranja é substituído pela lembrança de ameixa e diminuindo aquela sensação momentânea de IPA proveniente do amargor de lúpulo ao haver ganho de temperatura. É mais doce que amarga, mas o malte é definitivamente atenuado pelo lúpulo, como dito acima, até mais que o desejado. Menos encorpada que os ditames do estilo. Pelo valor e fama, esperava algo mais complexo, mas, ainda assim, é uma boa cerveja.80 s
3.5 750ml corked bottle for $1.99 (seriously) from Kenny Rd Market. Copper brown pour with offwhite head and loose sheets of lacing. Aroma of caramel, dark fruit, sweet bread. Tastes follow suit with a little less sweetness but all of the raisin, bread, caramel. Also get brown sugar, little herbal, light spice.
2.9 The beer pours a beautiful coppery mahogany color with thick beige head that seems to last a while and leave sheets of lacing that dissolve into spots. The aroma is rather intensely hoppy for a doppelbock style beer. The BJCP guidelines rate the style as 16-26 IBUs but Brooklyn has loaded this version up to 45 IBUs, which is just way too much for a doppelbock. The hops dominates the aroma and the flavor. The flavor starts hoppy. The Munch and Caramel malts slide in for a visit briefly during the middle of the sip, and then clubbed into submission by the four varieties of hops Brooklyn chose to cram into this one. Hop heads and IPA fans will find this a pleasant malty diversion from their favorite pale ale. Those of us who’ve had a great doppelbock like Ayinger Celebrator, Fort Collins’ doppelbock, or Weihenstephaner Korbinian wonder what the brewmasters at Brooklyn were thinking. I’m planning to put as many of the bottles of this I bought aside as possible to age and mellow out. Over time, that 45 IBU bitterness should subside and disappear. Perhaps then we’ll have a true doppelbock.