About
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
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
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Definitely like root beer but doesnt taste like 20 percent. Brown pour with good head and lacing. Very sweet finish. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2016
at 16:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Sarsaparilla, licorice, wintergreen, and alcohol aroma. Dark brown with moderate head. Very sweet sarsaparilla/sassafras, licorice, and moderate alcohol flavor. Good body, low carbonation. Pretty good if you’re in the mood for hard root beer (or you could buy a pint of root beer schnapps for about the same price).
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2016
at 14:43
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bomber from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours brown with a beige/tan head. Aroma is root beer. Med + body. Flavor is root beer, but there’s a lot of sugariness. Carbonation is not like the old A&W versions. :) But it’s root beer, and the heat is hardly discernible. It is more or less what it purports to be.
Tried
on 03 Jul 2016
at 19:20
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Bottle, almost no head whatsoever,cola brown color, just like drinking toothpaste with caramel spices and mineral notes, much too sweet and sickly. Interesting but really not in a good way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2016
at 12:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
22oz bottle thanks to rich. Pours out a a brown topped with a small head. Nose is big massive root beer sugar sweetness spice and booze. Taste is more of the heavy sweetness booze wow I mean getting heart burn.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2016
at 23:02
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Draught at Hops ’n Headz, Bellingham, WA
Dark amber color. Smells like cinnamon toothpaste, then vanilla and some herbs. Very sweet, bubblegum, some artificial strawberry fruit and vanilla, toothpaste.
Of all root beers I tried, this is not the most offensive; overly sweet, almost drinkable (if you are into this).
Dark amber color. Smells like cinnamon toothpaste, then vanilla and some herbs. Very sweet, bubblegum, some artificial strawberry fruit and vanilla, toothpaste.
Of all root beers I tried, this is not the most offensive; overly sweet, almost drinkable (if you are into this).
Tried
on 18 Jun 2016
at 23:04
3/10
First couple sips are good, then it goes down hill from there.
Tried
on 03 Jun 2016
at 16:01
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Did not work for me but my wife loved it. +++ Poured a dark tan color with a large foamy white head that left good lacing. The aroma was iced spice cake. The flavor was Iced spice cake, cola and overwhelming sweetness. Very long finish. Medium body. Ick.
Tried
on 16 May 2016
at 11:28
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours a clear copper-gold color with a thin white head that evaporates quickly to a film. Spotty lacing. Aroma of ginger and fruit. Light to medium body with flavors of sweet ginger and spiced fruit. The finish is sweet and effervescent with a ginger aftertaste. Slightly above average overall.
Tried
on 09 May 2016
at 20:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Clear golden coloured body with no head at all. Aroma of ginger, light alcohol and pure sugars - not much too unexpected here. Light-bodied; Strong ginger beer flavour at first (the real stuff) with a candied ginger flavour coupled with a lot of sugar and some light alcohol warmth. Aftertaste is pure ginger beer coupled with a faint bit of sugars - not much alcohol at all to speak of, which is fine. Overall, a touch syrupy and too sweet, but all things considered, if you purchased a product called ’ginger ale’, that had alcohol, then this is what you would probably expect. to have. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Trader Joe’s in Clarendon (Arlington), Virginia a few hours ago on 12-March-2016 for US$1,84 sampled at home in Washington for lunch on 12-March-2016.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Mar 2016
at 11:22