Crow Peak Brewing Company

Brewpub in Spearfish, South Dakota, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Crow Peak Brewing Company

Established in 2007

Contact
125 US-14, Spearfish, SD, 57783, United States
Description
Crow Peak Brewing Company, crafting South Dakota's beer culture!

Crow Peak Brewing Company started in the spring of 2007 as a modest 5-barrel brewery with on-premise sales in the form of pints and off-premise sales in the form of 64-ounce growlers. The brewery was extremely successful, and in order to provide a quality local beer to other parts of the State and beyond, a brewery expansion was in order. The beautiful new brewery building opened for business in December of 2009.

However, our beers were still being brewed on our 5-barrel system while we were waiting for our new 30-barrel brew house – three 60-barrel fermentation vessels and 60-barrel bright beer tank to arrive and be installed. Installation of the new equipment, plumbing, wiring and boiler system was completed in June of 2010. In addition to the larger brewing system, a Cask automated canning line was brought online in the fall of 2010, allowing us to distribute our product in both draft and packaged form.

By the end of 2015, Crow Peak Brewing Company was producing 2,000 barrels of beer annually and was distributing its products in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Minnesota. We were finding it hard to keep up with demand, especially in the summer months so we underwent a second expansion in 2018. With two additional fermentation vessels and one additional bright beer tank, we are now able to produce approximately 5,000 barrels annually.

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Pours an orange amber color with a thick white head. Aroma of sweetened malt, grain. Taste has mild hops, sweet malt, molasses. Palate has a mild lingering hops, some resin. Very malty for an IPA.

Tried on 27 Nov 2021 at 21:52


4.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Can. Pours pale copper with a large foamy head. Caramel, biscuit, grapefruit, floral, chalky, plum, pear, metal. Medium body. Unpleasant.

Tried from Can on 07 Nov 2021 at 16:10


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Can from explosivedog: clear gold. Aroma is pine and chalk. Taste is chalky and piny. Not very good.

Tried from Can on 07 Nov 2021 at 02:56


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Pour 54. Pours clear gold. Floral, esters, capsicum, earthy, sulfur. Medium body. Fine.

Tried from Draft on 08 Sep 2021 at 16:34


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at the brewery. Pours dark orange brown. Toffee, blackberry, biscuit, sweet boozy orange zest. Medium body. Good.

Tried from Draft on 06 Sep 2021 at 01:19


5.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at the brewery. Pours dark brown. Liquorice, strong liquorice, booze, prune, hefty sweetness. Medium body. Bit much.

Tried from Draft on 06 Sep 2021 at 01:02


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

Corn, milk, orange, malt, and straw aroma. Pale yellow with large white head. Mildly sweet citrus, creamy barley malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Okay body. Light but a pretty good cream ale.

Tried from Can on 31 Jul 2021 at 00:28


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

Refrigerated 12 oz. can from shrubber85 poured into a glass. Clear pale straw with medium white head. Aroma is light malt, medium/light body, and little lacing. Taste is malt and cream.

Tried from Can on 06 Jul 2021 at 01:07


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

12 ounce can from Brookings SD Liquor, 8/10/20. Hard to believe these guys made my first SD beer ticks way back in 2013! Hazy pale gold, large foamy white head, good retention. Aroma of corn, crackery pale malt, lemony hops. Taste is lemon, corn, hay, pale malt. Medium bodied, mild bitterness, decent balance, crisp. Nice cream ale.

Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2020 at 19:17


5.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Deep off-golden and very light cream coloured body with a very thin and off-white head, about a centimetre tall. Aroma of very funky grain and floral notes with some light spices and bitter grassy and herbal funk - quite strong in perhaps a bad/bitter way. Light-bodied; Strong grassy and bitter spice notes dominate with a funky, almost herbal and deep yeastie quality that shows a lager more than an ale and a large biscuity malt quantity and a surprising amount of funk and spices in the mix versus those smoother flavours you'd expect. Aftertaste is dry, relatively smooth, but showing some stronger malt and yeast flavours and the spices that don't seem to go away along with a touch of sweetness towards the end. Overall, a funky and interesting beer that really tastes like a lager versus an ale and the biscuity malts plus the spices make for a deeper and more aggressive, pungent flavour profile compared to most in the season. Still nice to sample of course, given that I've been to South Dakota exactly once in my life! I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased and sampled at Red Rocks Bar/Restaurant in Wall, South Dakota on 29-June-2020 for US$3,73.

Tried from Can on 30 Jun 2020 at 09:46