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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5.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Sampled from a bottle this beer poured a vibrant pink color with a trace off white head that faded quickly and left no lacing. The aroma was sweet sugar and artificial strawberry. The flavor was sweet sugar and artificial strawberry. Medium length finish. Medium body.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Dec 2018 at 23:32


6
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 7

Pours a clear red color with absolutely no head or lacing. Pours like Kool-aid. Sweet, fruity Kool-aid aroma too. Surprise! It tastes like fruit punch Kool-aid. Same non-carbonated flat mouthfeel as fruit juice. How is this considered beer? Alco-pop. That said, it's very tasty and easily poundable. Great fruit punch; Lousy "beer."

Tried on 18 Sep 2018 at 23:45


5

Flavor is fine...but it’s not carbonated?

Tried from Bottle on 15 Sep 2018 at 22:44


3.5
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

7/22/18. 12 ounce bottle. Hazy color that doesn't exist in nature. Kinda of like an almost translucent pale lime green. No head. Aroma of melted lime popsicles, a bit of orange. Taste is lime, orange, pale malt. Thin. About what I expected.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Aug 2018 at 02:38


3.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Why do I do these things to myself? 12 ounce bottle. Clear red. No head, and no carb escaped when I opened the bottle. Bad seal? Aroma of fruit punch. Taste is fruit punch, cherry forward. Thin, flat. It is what it is. At least it's a decent fruit punch.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jul 2018 at 23:05


3.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Sampled from a bottle this beer poured a cherry candy red with no head and no lacing. The aroma was Hawaiian Punch. The flavor was super sweet Hawaiian Punch. Long finish. Light body.

Tried from Bottle on 27 May 2018 at 15:11


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Can split at Kennys CPH fart dungeon, thanks to Kenny, 10/05/18. Reddish brown with a decent beige cap. Nose is Raljex, bubblegum, sweet, Red Bull dung effect. Taste continues in a similar vein with a sweet malt base, caramel, Dentine choddy, light spice. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. I thought I was boosted until I saw my fellow raters scores on this Juan !!! Fun enough for a root beer though.

Tried from Can on 17 May 2018 at 06:38


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle shared at Ken’s hotel room, Copenhagen - Dark brown pour with small white head. Aroma and taste is very sweet root beer, sweet body, sweet root beer finish.

Tried from Bottle on 10 May 2018 at 20:39


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

10th May 2018
Hotel tasting. Imperial Hotel. Clear deep amber beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Soft malts, little vanilla. Nice sweetish licorice and aniseed, mild spice. Tangy fruits. More vanilla aniseed and licorice. Smooth and well joined up and very drinkable.

Tried on 10 May 2018 at 19:54


3.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

Bottle at home. This is awfully sweet and tastes like a Smirnoff Ice. Not nearly as good as an actual Dew. Lenin didn't like this either.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2018 at 02:33