The Glass Jug Beer Lab

Microbrewery in Durham, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: The Glass Jug Beer Lab

Established in 2014

Contact
5410 NC-55, Ste V, Durham, NC, 27713, United States
Description
The Glass Jug Beer Lab is a retail craft beer and wine store with an on-site microbrewery, bar, and event space.
The retail store features a wide selection of craft beer from local breweries and across the world, in addition to a selection of unique wine, cider, mead, kombucha, and soda.
The bar showcases 24 taps that include 17 craft beers, 4 house-made beers, plus craft cider, kombucha, and cold brewed coffee served on nitro. Wine and mead are also available by the glass.

The on-site brewery produces experimental, one-off, small batch beers that can only be found at The Glass Jug Beer Lab and select festivals and events in the area.
The new location also features an outdoor beer garden with picnic table seating under market lights and sunshades.

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7/10
Dark brown body small foamy off white head. Banana toffee candi aroma. Candi caramel toffee flavor. Full body moderate carbonation. 6/4/7/3/15 3.7
Tried from Draft on 28 Jan 2023 at 12:19

6/10
Clear amber body medium foamy off white head. Bready toasty aroma. Bready toasty nutty flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 6/3/6/3/13 3.1
Tried from Draft on 28 Jan 2023 at 11:52

7/10
Mostly clear red body small fizzy off white head. Tart fruity berry aroma. Tart berry citrus flavor. Medium light body moderate carbonation. 7/4/8/4/15 3.8
Tried from Draft on 28 Jan 2023 at 11:48

7/10
Hazy gold body small foamy white head. Floral citrus aroma. Floral citrus flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 7/2/8/4/15 3.6
Tried from Draft on 28 Jan 2023 at 11:37

5.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
My pounder can does not say anything about rhubarb, it just says strawberry basil pi, so I hope this in the right place. I guess this glass jug place makes a lot of one-offs and nobody on ratebeer can keep track of it. Oh well, WTF, I bet this still tastes about the same so Ill rate it here. I'm just not sure because this say 4.5 and mine is 4.2%. Too lazy to make a guess and enter a new entry & only to have it deleted. Pop the can for an interesting off fruit nose which fades to a scented hand some olfactory. Nice head and the color is hazy pinkish pale. Taste is fairly friendly at first. Yet, that odd nose is a little bit of a turn off, must be the basil but it doesn't taste like basil. Yea, the taste is that of real wild beer and it is quite forgiving, lacks any hop bitterness. Not as much cutting co2 as was expected. Ok for a fruited sour, but was hoping for a little more tart wild beer impact. Somewhat farmy finish. That smell tho, could do without, fer sher.
Tried from Can on 01 Aug 2022 at 20:06

7/10
Hazy red bod sml wht head. Tart berry aroma. Tart berry fruit flav. Med bod mod carb. 8/3/8/3/15 3.7
Tried from Draft on 29 Jan 2022 at 16:14

7/10
Clear amber body medium foamy white head. Toasty bready earthy aroma. Toasty bready earthy flavor. Medium light body moderate carbonation. 7/4/7/3/15 3.6
Tried from Draft on 29 Jan 2022 at 11:41

7/10
Murky red bod sml off wht head. Fruit berry arma. Fruit berry citrus flav. Med bod mod low carb. 8/2/8/4/16 3.8
Tried from Draft on 25 Jan 2020 at 15:00

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
32oz crowler pours with a near clear deep copper to mahogany colored body that supports a thin off white head of foam. The aroma offers up plums and a bit of dates supported by some molasses, muted oak and booze. The taste delivers pleasing slick and sweet prunes and dates flowing into molasses, sweetened blunted spicy oak and sweet thick malts. To midway the barrel treatment surfaces with soft boozy notes of rum, marshmallow and bourbon. This beer is put together with harmony and balance. Love it.
Tried from Crowler on 31 Oct 2019 at 16:17

7/10
Clear dark brown bod med foam off wht head. Choc roast salt arma. Tart choc cocoa roast salt flav. Med bod mod carb. 7/3/7/3/14 3.4
Tried from Draft on 25 Jan 2019 at 14:25