Shock top twisted pretzel wheat

[pdxal]

Chatting with Shock Top Head Brewmaster Jill Vaughn about Twisted Pretzel Wheat and her other Shock Top Beers
http://beer-runner.blogspot.com/2014/05/chatting-with-shocktop-head-brewmaster.html

Q: How do you brew a beer that tastes like a pretzel?

A: Let me tell you the background behind it. There’s a couple considerations we have for any Shock Top beer. We use the best ingredients, and always brew with wheat malt and some type of citrus. There’s this place across the street from the brewery that makes these wonderful pretzels. Pretzels are popular in St. Louis and we wanted to brew something that was part of St. Louis. Every day when leaving the brewery, you can smell two things: the beer from the brewery and fresh baked pretzels. We did a lot of experimentation in our pilot brewery with barely malt, wheat malt, citrus and we found a totally cool flavor essence that has all the flavors of a fresh pretzel. When we tasted the beer, we all found it was exactly what we were looking for.

In other words, they are using artificial flavoring for the pretzel flavor.

 

[muels]

I bought the sampler pack that had 3 in it a few months ago after reading this thread. There is still one in the back of the fridge. It tasted like a pretzel...kind of. Not a fan. Interesting taste, but I split both bottles with friends and couldn't finish a whole one. Not knocking it, just not for me.

 

[wyccad915]

My friend gave me one at his apartment about a month ago. I had other beers beforehand and it probably affected my opinion, but I thought it was meh. Not bad, but nothing special either. I do like shock top, and particularly liked their shockolate wheat beer, but that was discontinued. I have a bar here that sells shock top pretty cheap, in fact, there's quite a few places that sell it cheap. So when I go out, I like I can drink cheap. I don't usually drink it at home, though.

 

[pdxal]

Lots of places sell Budweiser products cheap, par for the course.

 

[castillo556]

lol

Shock Top

Anything other than the basic white type beer is just a wheat beer pumped full of artificial flavoring.

 

[wyccad915]

Lots of places sell Budweiser products cheap, par for the course.

True. ST is just my preference usually, but I'll drink Bud if everything else is ridiculously marked up or if it's free Getting into homebrew might change things a bit though. I'll probably be drinking less ST.

 

[BeerMom]

Anyone try this? Just had a pint today at a bar. Tasted and smelled just like a pretzel. Unbelievable!

Anyone know how they did that? No way pretzels are in the mash.

Glad to have found this! I recently found an old photo of this beer & was so excited bc I LOVED this beer & bought it til it sold out! This was before I started homebrewing! Looks like a new future exbeeriment!