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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6

Could drink a few of these in the morning. Harry Kane while playing for Millwall.

Tried on 09 Mar 2017 at 19:19


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

Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours mauve with no head. Aroma does suggest strawberry. Med body, nearly. Flavor is rather sweet, tho there’s something like a rhubarb tartness. Flavors seem to be strawberry and rhubarb. Not bad really, but not sure it’s "beer". :)

Tried from Bottle on 22 Feb 2017 at 19:53




5.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

A root beery smell that comes across as more of an extract. There’s a slight note of anise, then a marshmallow taste that happen to I like, followed by a bit of a burn either from alcohol, or herbs that I haven’t run across before. Herbal note shows up at the end of the sampler, plus a background of wintergreen.

Tried on 22 Jan 2017 at 15:27


5.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Dark yellow color. Sweet aromra and and sweet flavor. It does taste like cream soda. Thia is better than their root beer, and better than the average cream ale.

Tried on 20 Jan 2017 at 20:28


3

Gave me heartburn. Dumped it.

Tried on 14 Jan 2017 at 20:01


4

Couldn't do more than six ounces.

Tried on 14 Jan 2017 at 13:05


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at Peg’s Cycle BA Day. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is vanilla, licorice, booze. Medium body, strong licorice, vanilla, very boozy finish, decent.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2016 at 13:20


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bomber from Winco. Nose is exactly like root beer at first glance, with notes of vanilla and clove, but digging deeper you can pick out definite malted grain--it does smell like real beer underneath all the spices. Pours dark brown with a nice beige head with great retention and some lace. Tastes like root beer, but the strong licorice notes it has are like those you’d find in an imperial stout. Actually really tasty, I just don’t know if I want a whole 22 ounces to myself. Better shared, I think.

Tried from Can on 20 Dec 2016 at 22:33