Week 1 of 52
Schell Snowstorm
January 1st thru January 6th
Brewer's Description
Much like snowflakes, no two Snowstorm beers are alike. Once a year, our brewmasters lock themselves in the testing room with a secret selection of fine malts and hops, only emerging when they've hit upon something truly extraordinary.
Snowstorm 2007 was inspired by the Monastic beers of Belgium. Authentic Belgian yeast produces subtle overtones of fruiit and spice. Six malts combined with a touch of Turbinado sugars help to create a complex malt character, with hints of raisins, dark fruit and rum. We hope you enjoy savoring it as much as we enjoyed making it!
Overall Rating based on 59 reviews
3.03 of 5 stars
Brewery Information
August Schell Brewing Company
New Ulm, Minnesota
schellsbrewery.com
Interesting Fact
August Schell was born in 1828 in Durbach, Germany, located in the heart of the famous German “Schwarzwald," otherwise known as the Black Forest region. Read more
Photography
Courtesy of Erin Reichelt. View more on her flickr set.
brendan says Dubbel delivers on promise.
January 7th, 2008
I read that it is supposed to be a belgian dubbel in style I really think it delivers on that promise. If you know what a dubbel is, you expect big malt flavors, a thickish mouth-feel and then fruity estery flavors from the yeast. So I was expecting a sweet, fruity strong beer that coated my mouth and got it. I like this beer, maybe I am forgiving, since no one else around here makes a dubbel, I have not compared it to my favorite in the style: St. Bernardus Pater 6. This one probably will not impress macro-lager drinkers, or the hop heads, but on a cold day, a strong malty brew like this is nice.
Jan 7th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Exactly! It taste what its supposed to taste like: a dubbel. Schells gave it a good shot, and for the most part it hit the target. I would bet that people who hate it either don’t like the style or didn’t know this is what its supposed to taste like. It would be interesting to get their reviews of some other dubbels, ie. Pater 6, Kwak, Chimay Red….
Jan 7th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Hey Brendan, glad to see good minds think alike. I’m also glad to see I didn’t give this beer the most stars.
Jan 8th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Well I didn’t think a beer this good deserved the terrible average it got and wanted to bump it up a little. I am surprised that after having two or three of these beasties people were not convinced/intoxicated enough to believe that it was the best beer ever made.
Jan 8th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
It was a decent dubbel, but not exactly in line with the best…I was too late to enter my comments, but I’m glad to see someone knows what a dubbel actually is! Good review!