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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3.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

Bottle: Clear, dark amber with basically no head. Smells like tea...... Taste is.....well.....tea, but the really abominable over-sweetened kind that comes canned... Sugar, lemon/honey, sugar.... Clingy and filmy feeling. Not good at all.

Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2017 at 18:17


3.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5

12 oz bottle, thanks brenn79. Looks like I’m in for a treat. Aroma of berries; smells like a wine cooler. Pours clear pink with no head; looks like a wine cooler. Tastes sweet and a bit tart; tastes like a wine cooler, and nothing like a strawberry rhubarb pie or any kind of beer. If it walks like a duck, etc, etc. What a joke.

Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2017 at 20:53


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours bright gold with a slight, transient white head. Cinnamon apple aroma. Cinnamon apple flavor. A bit sweet. Suggests the brown sugary parts of an apple pie. Arguably proving City Brewery can brew something that’s not disgusting.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Apr 2017 at 22:46


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle: Clear gold with a quick white head. Apple, ginger, vanilla scent. Taste is baked apple, cinnamon, vanilla, pie crust. This one actually has a hint of Beer to it, but not much. Very sweet.....honestly, it’s pretty tasty, but I don’t think I could drink 2 back-to-back......

Tried from Bottle on 17 Apr 2017 at 17:29


4.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5

Bottle: Crystal clear pink with a busy, fizzy white head that’s gone before the pour is complete......actually sort of cool and violent. Candy strawberry, sugar aroma. Tart strawberry, sugar taste.....didn’t pick up much vanilla....but, in my defense, the taste buds have surrendered at this point...I feel like I’ve just allowed a whole sleeve of Sweet-Tarts to dissolve under my tongue. An Alco-Pop the likes of which I have not seen since the heady 80’s days of Fletcher and Oakes Wine Coolers......the flavour isn’t bad, but it’s ridiculously sweet and a far cry from anything resembling a beer.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2017 at 17:55


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5

12 oz. bottle. Aroma is cinnamon, apples, and malt. Yes it smells good but I am skeptical about this malt beverage.

The flavor is ok for the first sip or two. Then it just becomes sweet and syrupy. Can’t taste any alcohol through all the apple and cinnamon.

Like drinking carbonated apple pie filling. Certainly worse things to drink (and I almost finished the bottle) but more like a soda pop than beer.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Apr 2017 at 19:41


6.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a medium yellow color with a trace white head that faded instantly?and left no lacing. The aroma was sweet vanilla, a touch of cinnamon and apple. The flavor was sweet apple and cinnamon with some vanilla. Long finish. Medium body.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Apr 2017 at 11:41


8

Drinking apple pie? Do it like this

Tried on 01 Apr 2017 at 16:39


8

Fuck this wizardy. This is iced tea

Tried on 01 Apr 2017 at 16:37


8.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Bottle. A- Strong cinnamon, vanilla, baked apples. A- Gold color, clear liquid, no head. T- Cinnamon, vanilla, baked apples, apple crisp, sweet. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, sweet finish. O- By God, this tastes just like an apple crisp. So most people aren’t a fan. and frankly I consider this more of a cider myself but I will plead guilty and admit I like it!

Tried from Bottle on 25 Mar 2017 at 10:15