Small Town Brewery

Microbrewery in Wauconda, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Pabst Brewing Company

Established in 2012

Closed in 2018

Contact
1000 N Rand Rd, #204, Wauconda, IL, 60084, United States
Description
Small Town Brewery is dedicated to crafting gruit-inspired beers. Gruit–German for herbs–describes the ancient practice of bittering ales with roots, spices, flowers, and berries. Tim Kovac, founder and brewmaster of Small Town Brewery, uses a proprietary technique to infuse a specialty blend of herbs and spices into his brewing process to create gruit-inspired beers with the unmistakable taste of nostalgia featuring classic American flavors.

Admin Note: Small Town Brewery and Taproom have closed after the sale of the brand in 2018. 2019 relaunched with a new brand under the Pabst umbrella with only 2 products. The original owner of Small Town has opened a up a new brewery in Cary, IL under the name Spirit Water

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4/10
Couldn't do more than six ounces.
Tried on 14 Jan 2017 at 13:05

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle at Peg’s Cycle BA Day. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is vanilla, licorice, booze. Medium body, strong licorice, vanilla, very boozy finish, decent.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2016 at 13:20

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bomber from Winco. Nose is exactly like root beer at first glance, with notes of vanilla and clove, but digging deeper you can pick out definite malted grain--it does smell like real beer underneath all the spices. Pours dark brown with a nice beige head with great retention and some lace. Tastes like root beer, but the strong licorice notes it has are like those you’d find in an imperial stout. Actually really tasty, I just don’t know if I want a whole 22 ounces to myself. Better shared, I think.
Tried from Can on 20 Dec 2016 at 22:33

3.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 3.5
12 ounce bottle, 7/26/16. Clear amber, large fizzy white head, fair retention. Aroma of intense vanilla extract. The taste is vanilla extract and a bit of caramel. Thin bodied, sickly sweet
Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2016 at 23:48

3.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 4
12oz bottle from the state store
Pours clear copper/golden with a small white head that dissipates quickly, no lacing. Aroma of ginger. Flavor of ginger, sugar and spices
Not for me
Tried from Bottle on 12 Nov 2016 at 22:37

4.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 6
Bottle from the state store
Pours clear rusty brown with a small off-white head that dissipates quickly, no lacing. Aroma of a cream soda. Flavor of spices, vanilla and root, spices
Gets worse as it warms up.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Nov 2016 at 22:29

6/10
Tried on 15 Oct 2016 at 21:08

7/10
Good enough, but the 5.9% root beer is still my favorite.
Tried on 14 Oct 2016 at 22:43

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Refrigerated brown bomber poured into a snifter. Medium brown with not head. Aroma is saspirilla & alcohol, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is saspirilla and hint of alcohol.
Tried on 13 Oct 2016 at 20:22

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5
This hardly even beer. Tastes more like cream soda than it does beer. Very artificial-like flavours. I wouldn't buy this, or any in this beer line again. Berkeley. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried on 13 Oct 2016 at 15:04