Small Town Brewery
Microbrewery
in Wauconda,
Illinois,
United States 🇺🇸
Owned by
Pabst Brewing Company
Established in 2012
Closed in 2018
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
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
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
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.
Good enough, but the 5.9% root beer is still my favorite.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.