BrickStone Brewery
Microbrewery
in
Bourbonnais,
Illinois,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Brickstone Restaurant and Brewery
Established in 2006
Contact
557 William R Latham Senior Dr, Bourbonnais, IL, 60914, United States
Description
That’s what it’s always been about, loving what you do and sharing it with your neighbors. Since 2006 we’ve been proud to do just that, offering award-winning beers alongside our all-encompassing menu that satisfy both straightforward and adventurous palates.
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 ounce can. Canned on May 13/ 2020. Aroma and flavor or both classic. Slight herbal, citrus, peach with some medium spicy peppery hints. Has a moderate citrus bitterness enhanced by lively carbonation. Light side of medium body. Pretty standard issue but easy to drink without any flaws whatsoever.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jun 2020
at 22:50
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz can from Tavour, 4/24/20. Clearish golden-orange color, thin, fizzy, white head. Orange and vanilla aroma. Sweet taste. Decent, slightly sticky feel. Just decent overall. 7/4/7/3/14
Tried
from Can
on 24 Apr 2020
at 21:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 oz can from Tavour, 4/13/20. Pours a fully hazed golden-orange color with a white head and light-to-moderate lace. Juice-hop forward, with grapefruit, peach, melon, and pineapple. Kind of a short duration, sweetness finishes a little abrupt, and there isn't much of a hop bitterness to take over. Decently clean, mild stickiness. 8/3/7/3/15
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2020
at 21:45
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 8/29/2019. Pours opaquely hazy deep golden/amber/light orange color with a 2 finger dense and rocky off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big tangerine, orange juice, red grapefruit, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, berries, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, biscuit dough, light honey/toast, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and bready malt notes; with big strength. Taste of huge tangerine, orange juice, red grapefruit, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, berries, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, biscuit dough, light honey/toast, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of tangerine, orange juice, red grapefruit, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, biscuit dough, light honey/toast, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready/grainy, fairly sticky, and lightly resinous/rindy mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 7.8%. Overall this is a fantastic NEIPA. All around fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV with the mellowly bitter/resinous/drying finish; awesomely soft feel and not aggressive. Fantastic Galaxy, Amarillo profile. Extremely juicy, and fairly dank/earthy hops; with a perfectly balanced wheat/oat/malt backbone. Light residual sweetness with lingering resin dryness. A highly enjoyable offering, and outstanding spot on style example.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Nov 2019
at 04:25
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
The Aromas are Citrus hops and pale malt. Flavors are similar to nose, get more interesting with some peaches, sweetness that is very nicely balanced with great carbonation and rounding out with a full body and excellent finish. Very good beer.
Tried
on 05 Nov 2019
at 02:31
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
The Aromas are berries and cereal. Flavors are like nose slightly sweet tart upfront, little to no sign of hops in Aroma or flavors anywhere. Decent body and finish. It's a milkshake ale not IPA.
Tried
on 30 Oct 2019
at 03:52
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Found this bottle at Binny's downtown Chicago early this summer while seeing a Cubs home stand. A 16.9 oz offering, I look forward to opening. I have a snifter at hand, sure, let's do it. Blacker than, well, I cannot say, very black for sure. An almost nonexistent head, no concern. A great, aggressive scent, the darkest chocolate you can imagine, strawberry and Tootsie Roll. A very broad taste, wow, I have to sort this out. Chocolate cake, tobacco, bacon, berry and rye bread. Geez, different. And that can be good. 2019 version, 13%, let us see where this leads as I finish the bottle. Cubs won both games I saw, all to the good. City of big shoulders.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Oct 2019
at 01:33
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 14 Apr 2019
at 18:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz. can, packaged 4/18/22. Tasted 11/13/22 Piney hop smell right under the tab. Pours a big and sudsy head over a hazy yellow beer. Piney and tropical fruit nose of a big load of Citra hops. Taste bring in more of that resiny bitterness, but with notes of tropical fruit. A little less malt balance than I noted in the first review below.Noting that the foam stays pretty sturdy even after drinking half the can. Still a great exemplar of an American style pale ale. First impression, 4/12/19
Taster at Binny's North Riverside. Well, I've been swigging a lot of beers in a very short time. But this one stands for having a nice malt balance for a regular-strength pale ale. Tropical fruit overtones from Citra hops are right up front. Usually, I don't try to guess the hops, but the sampler said I was right on the money. Malty, as I said, to stand in contrast to their defining APA.
Taster at Binny's North Riverside. Well, I've been swigging a lot of beers in a very short time. But this one stands for having a nice malt balance for a regular-strength pale ale. Tropical fruit overtones from Citra hops are right up front. Usually, I don't try to guess the hops, but the sampler said I was right on the money. Malty, as I said, to stand in contrast to their defining APA.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2019
at 01:37
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can shared at Alex's Birthday. Pours a clearish gold with a finger of foam that lingers. Big tropical fruit on the nose with pineapple and mango dominating. As it warms up lots of dank notes and some yogurt. Thin, but some creaminess on the palate. More mango and pineapple with some dank pine.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Mar 2019
at 01:42