Confluence Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Des Moines,
Iowa,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Confluence Brewing Company
Established in 2012
The brewery is itself a confluence of John and Ken’s love for Iowa and craft beer. The result is a microbrewery that shares Iowa’s attributes of honesty, humility, hard work and a sense of humor. Confluence also has Iowa’s knack for being a delightful surprise to those who actually experience it.
Confluence cares about the creativity and craftsmanship that goes into making excellent beer, and knows that excellent beer can bring good friends together.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Growler during RBWG hotel lobby tasting night 1, 19/02/15 thanks to JcWatsrugger. Hazed orange amber with a decent off white covering. Nose is light booze tunes, caramel malt, citric rinds, bitter orange. Taste comprises candied fruit peel, light coconut, caramel malt, booze tunes, bitter citrics. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
32oz bottle from John’s enjoyed this afternoon after cutting the grass for the first time in 2015. Nice, bright golden orange color with lots of white head and sticky lacing. Nose is floral and piney, mild herbals. Same in the taste with a little more emphasis on the herbal notes. Sort of sticky and piney sweet, but the herbal presence really balances this out. Pretty darn good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Growler during RBWG. Pours a clear gold with medium frothy white head that lasts leaving spotty lacing. The aroma is floral hop and citrus. Similar flavor to nose with caramel and light bitterness, good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Growler shared during RBWG 2015 - Tampa. Pours lightly hazy yellow with a creamy white head. The nose holds dry flaked wheat and lemon rind. Light to medium sweet flavor with mild wheat bread, more lemon, mellow phenols, crispy hay. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish with more wheat bread, straw and ripening lemons. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Growler on the Brew Bus during the RBWG 2015 bus tour. Hazy yellow with off-white head. Aromas of butter, floral, herbs. Tastes of floral, citrus, herbs, funk. Medium body with a dry finish.
GenDV138 (9249) reviewed ChewBOCKa from Confluence Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Growler at Redlight Redlight the night before RBWG 2015 shared by jcwattsrugger, cheers John! Dark amber with off-white head. Aromas of dark fruit, caramel, malt. Tastes of caramel, malt, dark fruit, light biscuit. Medium-light body with a dry finish. Solid.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Kiano's Cut from Confluence Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Ticked at night one of the rbwg2015 hotel lobby bottle share extravaganza. Growler pours with a clear copper body that supports an off white head. The aroma offers up whiskey like booze, some pine hops, a touch of citrus hops and then a load of spicy oak. The taste starts with spicy and sweet oaky vanilla and then heads into a bit of pine and citrus hoppiness. This has a nice balance of barrel treatment and beer flavor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Growler. Pours yellow white head. Nose/taste of white sugar, lemongrass and orange peel with saison yeast. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Growler. Pours yellow gold white head. Nose/taste of rye, whiskey, oak, cracker malt and citrus. Medium body.
Sledutah (12313) reviewed Kiano's Cut from Confluence Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Growler shared by jcwattsrugger at the RBWG hotel share
Clear amber with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Aroma of rye spices and pine. Flavors of rye, vanilla, woody and whiskey
Very good