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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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Draft. This tastes just like wassail. Apple with cinnamon and baking spices. Damn its dangerously good and goes down super easy. A little sticky on the texture but still very awesome.

Tried from Draft on 13 Jul 2013 at 10:26


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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Draft. Looks, smells and tastes just like rootbeer. I cant even detect the alcohol in this. Dangerously tasty.

Tried from Draft on 22 May 2013 at 15:32


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

Sampled from the tap at the Mundelin craft beer fest. Pours a cloudy honey amber with a tan head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of honey and sweet grains with an earthy barrel note. Flavor is sweet with honey and caramel a bit of alcohol in finish.

Tried from Draft on 12 Jun 2012 at 12:06


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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4

Sampled from the tap at the Mundelin beer fest. Pours a dark brown with a light brown head that remains throughout the beer. Aroma smells just like root beer, very sweet. Flavor is extremely sweet as well and just like root beer. Personally not a root beer fan, but it does taste just like it.

Tried from Draft on 12 Jun 2012 at 11:45