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The Reservoir is a 99 seat restaurant serving dinner 7 days a week and lunch Saturday & Sunday. Located in the heart of downtown Waterbury situated in the beautiful green mountains of Vermont. We specialize in Vermont comfort food and some of the best beers available. Currently we have 37 draft beers (the most in the state) as well as a full bar and wine list. We also have live entertainment every week featuring some of the best artists around.
Big Tree Brewing Company is the 1bbl Nano beerery that is based out of The Reservoir.
Big Tree Brewing Company is the 1bbl Nano beerery that is based out of The Reservoir.
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 oz draft. Flavor is quite good. Flavors of pineapple, mango and very soft citrus peel bitterness. Texture is very juicy with tropical fruit like hint. Easy to drink. Lots of flavor for 5%.
Tried
from Can
at
The Reservoir - Restaurant & Tap Room
on 05 Jul 2025
at 12:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
16oz can pours a murky black with cap of beige head. Nose is so spot on, malt and molasses and toast and caramel. Old school. Some smoke, meaty. Flavor is malty and meaty. Love this. Cola and licorice and toast and clear grain. Love the grain bill on this. Dry but full bodied.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Mar 2023
at 02:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From a pint can. Pours a hazy gold with an off white head. Aromas are dank hay and green onion. Flavors are moderately bitter tangerine peel. Not a winner.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Nov 2022
at 20:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can pour. It's a hazy light brown with no sparkle, finger-width off-white head with fair retention and light lacing. Aroma is grapefruit, cheap bubblegum, pine. Taste is vague citrus, dank vegetation, pine and grain. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, no born on date but think this may have been old BEFORE it sat around a bit. Tastes more like an old conventional IPA than NEIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Oct 2022
at 02:07
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Parker Pie draught, 10/12/22. Slight chill haze. Brass-bronze, white head to ring. A little rough/grainy here with slightly sharp, maybe even a hint soapy hops. Not getting much in the way of yeast/mineral that's enticing. A bit sour and grainy, not a lot of depth. Hops are bitter with stale herb. It's at least dry and well-carbonated, but tough to find much else exciting here.
Tried
on 12 Oct 2022
at 15:13
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can at home. I thought new brewery but not for me. Hazy yellow head fades quick. Nose is earthy and grass. Tastes grassy, meinerrally, earthy, some bread, soap and citrus. Seems odd flavors but refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Apr 2022
at 03:39
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 8
New can design far more 80s feeling. Cloudy orange and a smallish head. Nose is candy and grass. Tastes of grass, strawberry, pineapple, rock candy. Smooth light sweetness
Tried
from Can
on 02 Apr 2022
at 01:14
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours slightly hazed gold into a shaker. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes leaving trailing sheets. Earthy multigrain sourdough aromas. Medium bodied with earthy bread upfront turning to mildly bitter toast in the medium length finish. Enjoyable pils.
Tried
on 15 Feb 2022
at 22:54
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
4 pack canned 8/24/21, drunk over the next two weeks.
Not gonna lie, if I'd known this was brewed at Idle Tyme, I would have never bought it. What a shitty brewery. And it shows. Granted, this is much better than your average IPA from there, but still, just vague/bland and not expressive in the nose.
Softish and dry in the mouth but just not quite juicy or too intersesting. Not that twangy but too much sourdough, acid and pine.
Not gonna lie, if I'd known this was brewed at Idle Tyme, I would have never bought it. What a shitty brewery. And it shows. Granted, this is much better than your average IPA from there, but still, just vague/bland and not expressive in the nose.
Softish and dry in the mouth but just not quite juicy or too intersesting. Not that twangy but too much sourdough, acid and pine.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Sep 2021
at 04:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can (5/25/21) pour from trade with Johnnnniee via The Packie--thanks, John! It's an opaque light brown-dark yellow with light sparkle, thin cap of off-white head with poor retention and nice ring of lacing. Aroma is moderately strong lemony citrus with dank vegetal element. Taste is strong citrus with lighter tart fruit. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, soft carbonation and crisp finish with little flavor. Overall, taste is better than aroma but appearance is the relative start of the show. Skippable.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jul 2021
at 01:49