Shiner 100 Commemorator
Shiner 100 Commemorator is a rich and robust brew that is a fitting tribute to our legacy of 100 years of handcrafting stylish and flavorful beers. Commemorator is a bold style that would have been very familiar to Kosmos.
One of the highlights of the Bavarian brewing year is the rollout of strong beer or starkbier, developed by monks as “liquid bread” to sustain them through the Lenten season. Commemorator is brewed in that Old-World tradition and embodies the German-Czech heritage Shiner has proudly stood for since 1909.
This 17 % original extract dark lager is a blend of two row Munich and Caramel 60 malt mildly spiced with Bavarian Hallertau Tradition and Spalter Select hops to allow the toasted caramel flavor to predominate.
Alcohol by Vol.: 6.7 % Original Gravity: 17.0 % Bitterness: 17 IBU Color: 30 SRM
Real Degree of Fermentation: 60.7 %
One of the highlights of the Bavarian brewing year is the rollout of strong beer or starkbier, developed by monks as “liquid bread” to sustain them through the Lenten season. Commemorator is brewed in that Old-World tradition and embodies the German-Czech heritage Shiner has proudly stood for since 1909.
This 17 % original extract dark lager is a blend of two row Munich and Caramel 60 malt mildly spiced with Bavarian Hallertau Tradition and Spalter Select hops to allow the toasted caramel flavor to predominate.
Alcohol by Vol.: 6.7 % Original Gravity: 17.0 % Bitterness: 17 IBU Color: 30 SRM
Real Degree of Fermentation: 60.7 %
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250 reviews
Shiner, United States
Community reviews
Bottle. Pours a clear amber brown with a thin off-white head. Aroma of caramel, dark fruit, raisins and some molasses. Flavor was moderately sweet with caramel malts, raisins, molassesand a touch of toffee with a dry finish.
A shame that this one was discontinued. I Thought this was the best of the numbered celebratory Shiners. I’ll miss it.
Bottle: Poured a medium orange amber with a nice head. The aroma was sweet malts and dark fruits. Raisins, toffee, caramel and malts are all present. Overall, a quality brew.
Small diminishing head, little to no aroma. Flavor slighty sweet, mod malts. Overall very good while not great, still one of my favs to drink. Oddly enough this is one of the rare beers I enjoy more from the bottle than poured into glass. I think this is a case where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
12 ounce bottle from Bestway in Greensboro, NC. Pours a slightly hazy brown-orange color with a medium offwhite head. Fair head retention and lacing. Aroma of toffeeish malts with subtle raisin notes. The taste is toffee, caramel, raisins and a faintly hoppy finish. Some faintly acrid nutty notes as well. Medium bodied. Decent beer.
The pour is a translucent, mahogany color but the head is fairly small, beige, frothy head which is mostly diminishing and leaves minimal lace. The nose is actually pleasant, albeit a bit subdued; rich caramel, raisin, spicy/earthy hop background, toasted almonds, and graham cracker. Similar flavor with raisin and graham cracker, some toasted caramel, almonds still, and mild notes of roast and spicy hops. The palate is fair with a less than medium body, a lively carbonation, and a watery/slick mouthfeel. The finish is crisp with dry almonds and roast, spice, and some graham cracker and raisin lingering. From what I have had from this brewery, this was a very pleasant surprise. The malt richness and the underlying hops were completely balancing. The complexity could have been better from a doppel, but overall, it was quite pleasant.
Bottled. Pours mahogany, with almost no head. Aromas of caramel and hops. Tastes of toasted malt, caramel and tin. Thin bodied, with an astringent tin-like finish that i cant get out of my mouth
Kind of a brownish color with a little off-white head. Has roasted chocolate taste but, after-taste wasn’t very good. I was looking for a bit better or maybe strong aroma but, it wasn’t too bad.
Sort of a dark brown color. Not much of a head. Has somewhat of a bitter, malty/chocolate... maybe nutty taste. Its ok. It might just be the bottle that I got, cause it was the only one at the store.
Surprisingly decent offering. Pours a nice amber-mahogany into the glass, with a thin eggshell cap that leaves trace lace. The nose is spot on for caramel and buttered toffee. Flavors are a toasted version of the bouquet, integrating some molasses and sweet roasted malts... although a bit more subtly effervescent than bold. Just the tiniest bit of hopping to close the finish. Nice buttery effervescence (not in a diacetyl way). Smooth pull with active carbonation and medium-light on the palate. Overall, a good brew... comforting for a nightcap.
A pretty good Doppelbock. Dark brown coloring with average head retention. Very flavorful with a pleasant nose.
12oz bottle. Pours a clear, brown-amber colored body with a thin, tan head that dissipates quickly and leaves a light lacing. Aroma is sweet with molasses and caramel, buttery toffee, raisin-cherry, and a touch of earth. Flavor is molasses, caramel, and some buttery toffee up front before some raisin-cherry, metallic earth, and a touch of chocolate comes in. Finishes rich and malty with a light bitterness and a touch of alcohol. Aftertaste lingers for a moderate duration after a medium, smooth body and a moderate carbonation. Overall, a decent beer. Nothing too crazy and nothing offensive. Malty and rich with a light bitterness. Eh...
Bottle. Clear brown body with a medium sized head. Aroma is caramel and buttery. Flavor is caramel, raisins and butter.
From a bottle poured brown with a fair amount od head. Sweet malty flavor with a quick finish.
Slightly hazy orange. Aroma of grain, oat, fruit. Taste is rich roast caramel malt with a slightly bitter finish. Medium body, high carbonation.
Very dark amber and only a little head that doesn’t last long. Aroma of earthy maltiness, though not strong. The taste is bitter and sweet with flavors of brown sugar. Better than most Shiner offerings
pours a creamy light brown head, good lacing, cloudy body, amber color
malt is a heavy molassas, caramel coffee toffee taste. this is surprisingly awful
Smells like caramel apples and maple syrup. Plenty of malt. Nice nose. Tastes like a typical Doppelbock. Not special but a good effort from Shiner. Very drinkable. Just sweet enough.
Bottle [12oz] shared with HogTownHarry & garthicus -- c/o garthicus. Pours a deep orange-amber with a small diminishing foamy tan head. Sweet aroma of caramel malt, dark fruit, light alcohol and cocoa. Flavour of caramel malt, dark fruit, molasses and a hint of smoke. Average bodied. Pretty good.
12oz bottle. Small beige head that mostly dissipates atop clear copper body. Aroma is moderately sweet, molasses, caramel, some raisin/cherry, chocolate, light alcohol. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel/molasses, raisin, light metallic, cherry. Low carbonation, light-medium body, some stickiness.
cola colored with like mouthfeel. quickly dissapating head. beery taste with alcohol and some plum and raisin. touch of a hop character adds zing where carbonation would normally be. enough old time beer aroma to garner a little appreciation, that being said... its a bit too sweet.
Rather unappetizing watered-down cola pour, small white head, no lacing. Smoky and yeasty aroma, neither scent being especially pleasant. Predominate flavor is bitter hops, which does not work in a bock. Really thin, unpleasant mouthfeel.
12 oz bottle a five pack gift from pantani (He bought a sixer and hated it). Nose of caramel with a hint of cocoa. Clear light brown with a medium beige head. Flavor is lots of molasses with minor sweetness. Too molassey for me to really like it. One dimensional!
Brown with a thin off white head. Aroma is fruit, malt during the boil, a bit nasty... Taste is fruit, residual sugar, malty, light alcohol. Beer seems to be very unrefined and I believe my first homebrew was far better then this... Sad.
Bottle: Pours a dark mahogany color with a light tan head. The nose is roasty with lots of sweet dark fruits and light caramelized molasses. The flavor is sweet and thin with a dry finish, the sweetness is there, but the body isn’t. It’s like a diet soda, or splenda, all up front but nothing in the back. A refreshing roastiness in the tail though and it’s still drinkable.
12 oz bottle courtesy of Soonah. Pours a clear red/brown color with a small beige head. No lace. Sweet caramel malt aroma with a hint of chocolate. Medium bodied palate with low to average carbonation. Heavy sweet taste of caramel. Quite sweet. Could have had it for dessert.
THOUGHTS: Great name for a doppelbock. Not a bad beer, but a pretty bad doppelbock. It was like a watered down doppelbock. If you made an eisbock out of this it would would be a decent doppel. Like their schwarz beer for the 97th anniversary, but better. The alcohol is really missing in this one for a doppel.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, dark brownish amber with an average, off-white head that mostly diminished that left fair to virtually no lacing. The aroma was nice, but weak. There was cookie, grain, caramel, underlying cereal, raisins, prunes, apple, cherry and slight hair product. The initial flavor was nice, but watered down. The initial flavor was sweet and a little bitter; while the finish was rather sweet and lightly acidic with a fairly long duration. There was caramel, raisin, prune, molasses, a hint of alcohol, a little metallic aftertaste that was also a little sickeningly sweet, some cherry and a little apple. It was a bit cloying. The light to medium body was like watered down syrup with fizzy carbonation and a hint of an alcoholic and hint of metallic finish.
Obtained in trade. Thanks. Brown, walnut color and thinner/lighter looking than I expected. A little roast and a bunch of molasses in the nose. Overwhelming for me. Nice molasses flavor with a light malty sweetness. Really a malt bomb! I couldn’t drink a lot of this but it is good. Full body, chewy mouth feel.
Poured a deep brown with a one finger light cream head. Sweet biscuit dough nose, with a sweet toffee and nutty character to the flavor. Very nice if a bit one dimensional.
12oz bottle. Pours a dark copper color with a light tan head, no lace left in the glass. Aroma is strong malt and caramel. Taste is malt and cider, not much hops come through. Overall this is a pretty good doppelbock.