Energy City Brewing

Client Brewer in Batavia, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2017

Contact
917 1st St, Batavia, IL, 60510, United States
Description
Microbrewery that started out on a small one-barrel system in 2017 but due to demand has been contract brewing at various breweries around Chicagoland. Currently beers are being brewed at Great Central Brewing in Chicago.

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7.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
16 oz. can from Tavour. Pours black, with a purplish tint, and a bizarre, brownish, pinkish head. Lots of particulates floating around and clinging to the glass. Huge blueberry and maple syrup aroma (surprised?). Oak, light cacao, and earthy malts. Sweet and sugary, almost cloying. Thick and chewy palate. This is a decadent and delicious stout.
Tried from Can on 13 Nov 2020 at 15:21

5.2/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 2 Overall 6
Can. Pours murky brown and extremely pulpy, bearing an unfortunate resemblance to diarrhoea. Raspberry, chocolate, heavy tart raspberry, milk chocolate, raspberry truffles, raspberry cream truffles, creamy chocolate malt stout stuff. Thick pulpy body. This is my first experience of a heavily fruited stout and I have some feelings about it, mostly negative. The appearance is disturbing, and the pulpy smoothie mouthfeel is extremely unpleasant in the context of a sweet chocolatey drink. The taste is honestly pretty good, but I am not convinced by much else.
Tried from Can on 11 Nov 2020 at 04:40

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
16 oz. Aroma is pumpkin pie, lemon, clove, whipped cream, cinnamon, nutmeg. Pours opaque dark orange, like pumpkin puree, with a small dark orange head that falls into nothing very quickly. Taste is moderately sour (7/10), highly sweet, with flavors of pumpkin pie and ice cream. Weird weird stuff, but it tastes pretty good.
Tried from Can on 30 Oct 2020 at 01:40

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can from Tavour. Pours hazy gold with a moderate white head. Aroma of melon and light citrus. Med body. Foamy carbonation. It has sharp bits - going with passion fruit - tho it could be pineapple - melon - citrus - more like kumquat. Juicy but dry. Sharp bits. Bitter. Gets more melon with time. Good.
Tried from Can on 14 Sep 2020 at 23:50

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 7.5
Pours a hazy, almost thick, carrot-orange color, with minimal head. Aroma is mango and lime. Flavor is sour mango and lime and...a touch of cinnamon? (I'm pretty sure that's cinnamon in there--didn't think I liked it at first, but it grew on me) Tart rather than full-on sour, with a pretty thick, full mouthfeel. This one got better as I drank it, actually...
Tried on 04 Sep 2020 at 22:18

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can from Tavour. Pours slightly hazy gold with a foamy white head. Vanilla/orange aroma. Med plus body. Flavor is orange/lactose/vanilla. Not very dry. Not bitter, but there is a citrus bite that substitutes. Reminds of the old orange/vanilla ice cream bars. Interesting.
Tried from Can on 25 Aug 2020 at 23:57



7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
16 oz. Looks like foamy orange juice, as thick and orange as OJ, with a huge bubbly dark orange head that collapses pretty quickly into nothing. The mango and tangerine both come through lightly in the nose and that's about it. Taste is light to moderately sweet, with a moderately bitter hop bite. Like a mango and citrus fruit smoothie with added hops. Fucking weird. Doesn't taste too bad, though.
Tried from Can on 02 Aug 2020 at 04:04

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can shared by my daughter Shannon. Nose is chocolate with some strawberries. Black with a small cinnamon tan head. Flavor is moderately sweet with chocolate and strawberries.
Tried from Can on 24 Jul 2020 at 21:43