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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7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Pours black - tastes black. A bit on the mild side for an I Russian but pretty good nontheless.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 00:53


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Draught from Blind Tiger. Poured a dark brownish black, the malt is strong in this one. I liked her.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 00:51


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Re rate via bottle. Poured reddish brownish, pretty clear. Very floral aroma, but strong maltiness also in the taste. A noticeable beer.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 00:47


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

A 330 ml bottle from M & S at Gatwick. I'd forgotten just how good this beer is.. very nice with the 7.5 ABV well hidden.

Tried from Bottle on 09 May 2025 at 10:15


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Golden slightly hazy. Medium head with a lot of lace. Citrus aroma. Taste is grapefruit, bitter usual IPA.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2025 at 04:39


4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle. It's not very good. Golden in color with an ok two finger head. Aroma is a weak grain smell. Taste is just chemical bitterness. Just didn't care for it.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2025 at 05:12


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Old rating from 2017 - 330ml bottle, brought from Love Wine in Jersey. Pours caramel with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, grain, toffee, toasted bread, pine, grass, cherry, apricot & malt. Medium body. Medium bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Mar 2025 at 07:55


9

RB score 3.87

Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2025 at 02:41


9

RB score 3.93

Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2025 at 02:40


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

A typical west coast american IPA. Front loaded with a WHACK of hops, wicked grapefruit, citrus, and piney aromas. A crap ton of hops in the flavour, a nice bitterness to finish. Nothing out of this world, but still very good.

Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2025 at 09:35