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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6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draft. Hazy amber beer with a cream head. Light orange and light tropical fruit aroma. Tropical fruit and light orange flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Tropical fruit and light orange linger with light malt.
Tried from Draft on 29 Aug 2023 at 16:32

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can. Hazy amber beer with a dark cream head. tropical fruit aroma. Tropical fruit and light grapefruit flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Tropical fruit and light grapefruit linger.
Tried from Can on 04 May 2023 at 17:37

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
16 oz can, 3/7/23. Dark brown with a medium brown head that leaves moderate lace on the glass. Roast and a bit of booze. Earthy / herbal bitterness. There's a bit of a berry thing, and maybe a little raisin / plum thing as well. Finishes a little burnt. Decent.
Tried from Can on 07 Mar 2023 at 21:35

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Poured from the tap (told with fairly confident certainty that this was the correct variant being served despite initially being mislabelled until further inspection by myself…). Clear-ish gold with small white head. Subdued pine and floral hops with a mild malt backbone. Decent, but a bit sweet.
Tried from Draft on 02 Mar 2023 at 07:18

7.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
1 pint can. Pours amber with a lot of floating sediment and short tan head. Aromas of soft pine, mashed pineapple, candied citrus, toasted malts and a little resin. Flavors of passionfruit, pine, more candied citrus and bready malts. Tasty. Just looks bad.
Tried from Can on 01 Mar 2023 at 01:07

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours clear, bright copper/amber with a large foamy off-white head that tried to lace. Aroma is very citrus. Med body. Flavor is citrus, perhaps a touch of pine, and floral/wood notes. Caramel in light support. Towards dry. Decently bitter.
Tried from Can on 18 Feb 2023 at 00:25

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Bottle from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours orange tinged gold with a moderate white head. Aroma of mango and citrus. Med body. Flavor is mango, pineapple, citrus and some white berry. Pale malt in support. Flavor is towards juicy, yet fairly dry. Moderately bitter. Nice flavor.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2023 at 00:44

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours translucent amber gold with a large foamy beige head. Aroma is pale stone and tropical fruits. Med body. Towards dry. Moderately bitter. A bit towards juicy. Even has a very slight dank note. Something of the flavor of Kraft caramel for malt. Quite unusual. Slightly burning citrus in the finish.
Tried from Can on 19 Jan 2023 at 00:56

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours translucent orange/gold with a large creamy off-white head. Aroma of citrus/pine and passionfruit. Med body. It's juicy, but dryish. Bitter with a dank note. Flavor is grapefruit/pine and passionfruit. Good flavor.
Tried from Can on 16 Jan 2023 at 00:38

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can to glass. Malty and citrus aroma leaning into the malt. Moderately turbid orange-gold with white head. Flavor is a bit of cloying caramel and orange.
Tried from Can on 17 Dec 2022 at 08:51