Commentist Beer Barrel: You Deserve a Cookie

That’s right! You! Have a damn cookie. It’s been five days since New Year’s Day, which I think is long enough that I can now safely say it’s 2017. It wasn’t easy, but you made it. Beer helped, probably, but in the end, the credit belongs to you. Thanks to all of you, writers, podcasters, Commentists, lurkers, Moose, everybody, for making this the best site on the entire World Wide Web for professional-quality professional football dick jokes, and for giving me a place to ramble about whatever the hell beer I want.

So go on, have a cookie. Chocolate chip if you want, straight sugar cookie if you must, oatmeal raisin if what you really want is to punish yourself for the secret sins that only you, deep in your dark heart, know you’ve committed. For my part, I’ll be having some snickerdoodles, in my opinion the finest of the traditionally homemade cookies, courtesy of my parents who, in their infinite wisdom, baked far more cookies than they could possibly have eaten this Christmas. There’ll be beer, too, of course. The beer will also be snickerdoodles.

Yep.

The beer, as you probably saw above, is Snickerdoodle Ale, from Community Beer Company in Dallas, Texas. Community was just getting started during the ten months or so I lived and worked in the Dallas area. The first of their beers I ever drank was Public Ale, a spot-on extra special bitter. By the time I left town, they’d also released the excellent Mosaic IPA and Legion Imperial Stout; wood-aged versions of each have come out since and tasted just terrific. Other notable products are a great pale ale and session IPA, a couple decent abbey-style beers, and this.

Community Snickerdoodle Ale is a clear, golden-orange beer with fast-dissipating head. I could just tell you it does what it says on the tin, but that’s not giving Snickerdoodle Ale enough credit. What I love most of all about this beer is Community’s commitment to recreating the entire cookie, not just the cinnamon. The spice is there, and in just the right amount, but Snickerdoodle Ale really shows its chops in tasting just like baked cookie dough underneath all that spice. This isn’t Community’s first shot at turning a dessert into a beer; a while back they put out an awesome Funnel Cake Ale. But this does feel like their biggest accomplishment in dessert-flavored beer. It’s not exactly a complex beer, but who wants it to be? I’m in this for snickerdoodles, and snickerdoodles are what I got.

lady snow says: We should make beer bread out of this! It basically tastes like a snickerdoodle but with less sugar. Less sweetness.

make it snow says: I get that. The vanilla helps with the sweetness, but obviously kind of the point of beer is that the sugars get turned into alcohol by the yeast. How’s this compare to the actual cookie for you?

lady snow says: I love snickerdoodles, too, because I love cinnamon. My grandmother, when I was a little kid, would always make snickerdoodles and gingersnaps. This is an excellent representation of a snickerdoodle in beer form. I would say as a snickerdoodle aficionado, two thumbprint cookies up for this beer. Ten ladyfingers up?

Grade: You can’t buttchug a cookie. You can buttchug a cookie beer, but you shouldn’t.

tl;dr: Does what it says on the tin, but better than you’d have thought possible.

make it snow is an alot of beer and extremely real lawyer who wants to wish each and every one of you a Happy New Year! He had a picture for this post but he deleted it. Got a longtime favorite you’d like to see reviewed here in 2017? A bottle you’ve been eyeing but aren’t sure about? Yell at make it snow about it in the comments.

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make it snow is an alot of beer. He is also a Broncos fan living in Denver.
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JerBear50

Probably not news to you being in Texas, but Shiner has a coffee ale out that’s decent. It’s a collab with Chameleon Cold Brew. Nothing to get worked up over, but pretty good for a grocery store beer.

JerBear50

This is the first Shiner variation that I’ve tried but I like the original Bock just fine. It’s not something I’ll usually buy for home, but it’s fine if I’m out somewhere. My favorite concert venue (Skipper’s Smokehouse) has a small craft selection but Shiner is their only dark, so that tends to be my go-to when I’m there. Well, that and a basket of conch fritters.

Cuntler

Not to inflame a simmering war, but Mountain Sun in Boulder/Denver makes a really good thin mint stout that comes out in February each year: https://untappd.com/b/vine-street-pub-and-brewery-girl-scout-chocolate-mint-stout/990091

Unsurprised

This makes me want more of that Mexican spice cake beer I had at the brew fest. Awesome, chocolate, spicy, and strong like I’ll kick your ass.

Old School Zero

Cookies? You sure it doesn’t taste like cinnamon… Toast?

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Shogun Marcus

I’ve supported you…loved you. Then this. I…
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ballsofsteelandfury

I need to see if my buddy that lives in Dallas can send me some of this. Overall, Dallas has A LOT of great beers/brewers!

Shogun Marcus

Muthafucka…not one shout out? On a COOKIE?!

King Hippo

I still don’t know exactly what this “buttchugging” is, but I fo sho DO KNOW that my old cracker anus ain’t up fer it.

ballsofsteelandfury

Don’t knock it till ya try it.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Just close your eyes and open your mouth; we’ll take care of the rest.

Doktor Zymm

I’m currently on hold with USPS customer service. I’m having more than one damn cookie.

Shogun Marcus

Oh my good luck. They try very hard to anti-human.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

So, what does it say it does on the tin?

Beerguyrob

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