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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3.1
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
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
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



7

Good enough, but the 5.9% root beer is still my favorite.

Tried on 14 Oct 2016 at 22:43


6.8
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
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


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Pours a black with an off-white head. Big wintergreen and licorice aroma, similar flavor with a good amount of vanilla, a bit of rooty bitterness. Buuuuuut, still just a soda, feel weird rating it.

Tried on 29 Sep 2016 at 22:09


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 5

Bottle: Dark, clear amber with a small white head. HUGE vanilla aroma. Flavour is sweet, carbonated, and spot on vanilla cream soda.....just the slightest hint of grain malt to lend a scant idea that it’s a beer. While it’s barely a beer, it IS remarkably tasty and fun to drink.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Sep 2016 at 13:50


9.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Bottle. A- Vanilla, cream ale. A- Burnt golden color, clear liquid, white head. T- Vanilla, cream soda, medium sweetness. P- Light body, average texture, high carbonation, sweet finish. O- Maybe not very beer like but tasted more beer like than the Root Beer. And much better than the root beer. Loads of sweet vanilla and cream. Really tasty. I could drink a lot more of this than I should probably admit. May be a new guilty pleasure.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Aug 2016 at 20:20