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
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at craig’s. Pours deep amber, nose is plasters, shoe polish, taste is creamy, cinnamon, aniseed, weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2016
at 13:35
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle at Craigs. Pours clear dark brown with no head. Aromas of swarfega, dandelion and burdock, I guess root beer. Taste is sweet, gummy sweets. Haribo, but not the nice ones. Sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2016
at 13:33
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
bottle at home .. dark brown ... thin white lacing ... big herbal root beer nose ... dark malts ... sweet sugers ... its root beer and root beer... odd but nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2016
at 13:32
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle: Clear, bubbly gold with a very quick white head. Overall.....a ginger ale....though more flat than the soda-type. Spicy ginger...almost sticky-sweet. Scent and taste are about as expected, of course. It DOES have a pretty pleasant ginger sting to it, though.....not very "beery", but not bad as a novelty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2015
at 18:05
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle from Winco. Haters, stop comparing this to a beer, and rate it as if it was a ginger ale soda. That’s what it looks like, that’s what it smells like, and that’s what it tastes like, and probably the intent of the product to begin with. A bit of a sweet lingering finish, but all else right on target.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2015
at 16:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a light black color soda with a small bubbly head. Aroma of root beer with quite a bit of residual sugar notes. Taste is also dominated by sweet notes and taste exactly like a root beer. Body is thin with spritzy carbonation. Interesting but I don’t really drink soda and this is closer to soda than anything else.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2015
at 20:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Single bottle from Trader Joe in Vegas. Pours a dark brown colour with copper highlights. The head is fizzy, disappears quickly and leaves no lacing. Typical root beer aromas. The taste is like root beer as well with its sweetness, spiciness but it does have some grain flavour found in normal beers. Soapy notes. Not bad at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2015
at 05:17
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle to pint. How to rate this??? This is awesome root beer! Um...don’t see a base beer but it is awesome root beer. Loads of vanilla. But then again...you made a 5.9 er taste like great root beer! No head and brown. Root beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2015
at 22:15
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Aroma: wintergreen, birch bark Appearance: clear brown, no lasting head Taste: medium sweetness, root beer Palate: medium body, slick feel, soft carbonation, long finish, Tasty
Tried
on 07 Nov 2015
at 09:46
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pour is a black soda with a small fizzy head. Aroma is root beer. Sugary, licorice and various spice. Flavor is again root beer. I can’t really explain it more than that. A lot of hype for this and while exactly like a root beer soda this is pretty spot on even for these gimmicky alcohol "beers".
Tried
from Can
on 06 Nov 2015
at 20:21