Bear Republic Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Cloverdale, California, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Drake’s Brewing Company
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1995

Contact
110 Sandholm Ln., Cloverdale, CA, 95425, United States
Description
The story of Bear Republic, like most other craft brewers, begins with homebrewing. It was the spark for our passion to create quality, hand-crafted beers. We are a family-owned brewery, located in the heart of Sonoma County, California. The company was established by the Norgrove family in 1995, with Richard G. Norgrove as brewmaster.

After 11 years of rapid growth, we opened our Factory 5 brewery in Cloverdale, California, where we brew and package all our beer that goes to market. We hand select our ingredients for each batch, the grains and hops we use are chosen for their unique characteristics and the recipes and formulations are patiently developed over time. Many recipes start as a home-brew and then develop into the commercial beer available in many retail outlets today. We pride ourselves in using our established methods while always looking to improve efficiencies and techniques that allow us to provide quality beer to share with the world.

Beginning 2023 thw brewery was acquired by Drake’s Brewing.

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6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit aroma with light pine. Grapefruit and pine flavor with light floral notes. Medium bodied. Grapefruit and pine linger with light floral notes.
Tried from Bottle on 23 May 2020 at 22:11

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Bottle. Mahogany beer with a beige head. Caramel and light roast aroma. Caramel and roast flavor with light nuttiness. Medium bodied. Caramel ad roast linger with light nuttiness.
Tried from Bottle on 15 May 2020 at 21:05

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Draft. An unclear yellow beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of lactose, wheat, and lemons. The flavor is sour with notes of lactose, wheat, and lemons, leading to a tart finish.
Tried from Draft on 28 Mar 2020 at 17:38

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Bottle from Bine & Vine. Pours very dark, but clear against strong light, orange brown with a beige head. Aroma is chocolate with a hint of pine. Med body. Flavor is chocolate, smooth burnt malt, and some pine/resin. Dry for me. Nicely bitter. Good drink.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2020 at 01:11

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355ml bottle. Hazy, orangey golden colour with small to average, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Resinous, piney, slightly grassy and somehow perfumed, citrusy hoppy aroma, notes of grass, fresh hay, lemon, pine, some woody pineapple, pale malty background with an almond touch. Taste is bitter, resinous, slightly piney and citrusy hoppy, sweet-ish, biscuity, pale malty backbone, hints of grass, lemon, almond, bitter orange zest, alcoholic vestiges. Oily texture, smooth and soft palate.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Jan 2020 at 21:24


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Bottle from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours translucent amber tinged gold with a foamy white head. Aroma is tropical with distinguishable caramel support. Arguably full bodied. Flavor is tropical with significant mildly roasty malt/caramel. Citrus and melon. Malty enough to merit undry, but bitter enough for that to not matter. Quite pleasing and tasty. It's almost chewable.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jan 2020 at 01:29

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours lightly hazy yellow, small white head, good lacing. Light aroma, citrus, leaves. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter, nondescript. Light body
Tried from Bottle on 15 Jan 2020 at 01:59

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Can from Corti Bros. Pours hazy gold with a large foamy white head that laced a little. Aroma has mandarin and citrus. Med body or better. Flavor is mandarin, maybe other citrus, and a lot of fruitiness. Arguably green melon is in it. Not exactly juicy. Fruity, but well towards dry. A citrus/hop burn on the tongue backsides. Pale malt seems to be in support. Amazingly tasty/good ale. Desert island ale!
Tried from Can on 14 Jan 2020 at 01:54

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Bottle from Marks & Spencer, Manchester. Light golden in colour with a small head. It has a hoppy character with a gentle sweetness to proceedings, and never feeling its strength.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jan 2020 at 18:03