6 Bears & A Goat Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: 6 Bears & A Goat Brewing Company

Contact
1140 International Pkwy, Fredericksburg, VA, 22406, United States
Description
6 Bears & a Goat Brewing Co., LLC (6B&G) is named after its founders (and the mascots of their respective military services). The six Bears are 20-year retirees from the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Goat is a retiree from the U.S. Navy. Collectively, the 6 Bears & a Goat have served their country for over 140 years. While we are very serious about brewing beer, we want to have fun doing it, and our name is indicative of that…it is also indicative of the good-natured rivalry between the Navy and our Nation’s oldest continuous seagoing service, the United States Coast Guard.

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6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Draft at PBR. Cloudy pale golden/yellow, thin head. Grainy aroma with light fruity notes. Taste is light and bready, smooth with a soft crisp finish.
Tried from Draft on 05 Aug 2023 at 18:05

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draft: Poured a copper with an off-white head. Aroma is jammy, fruity. Taste is fruity, jammy, buttery.
Tried from Draft on 23 Apr 2023 at 01:54

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Tap at beervana Newport news. A a mostly clear golden peachy orange coloured pour with a lasting white froth. Aroma is semi sweet, sticky peach melba, apricot jam, sticky. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, juicy vanilla cream, peach melba, apricot. Palate is semi sweet, vanilla, oak, sour.
Tried from Draft on 15 Apr 2023 at 21:38


6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Light rust, and some lime. Clear red pour without much head. Light crisp finish. Ok for style. Tap at Assembly.
Tried from Draft on 07 Apr 2023 at 23:33

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draft: Poured an orange with a white head. Aroma is a malty, biscuit. Taste is rich malty, leafy, biscuit.
Tried from Draft on 15 Jan 2023 at 18:10

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
12 ounce can, 8/27/22. No clue where this came from. Near black, medium tan head, average retention. Aroma of roast, chocolate. Taste is roast, chocolate, lactic twang. Well balanced, quite tasty. Nice stout.
Tried from Can on 30 Aug 2022 at 02:53

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Deep dark brown coloured body with a thick, frothy but super fast-dying light brown head that jumps out of the can immediately and fades to just a thin layer after just a few seconds. Aroma of super roasted malts with some vanilla, molasses, cream, lactose, milk, yeast, bread and a bit more of the oaty notes with the roasted quality, but the milk and lactose is pungent in the nose, for sure. Light to Medium-bodied; Very creamy and lactosey notes start up front with some noticeable sugars from the molasses and pitted fruits with some caramel as well, but the roasted oats and vanilla are here as well, but perhaps not as strong. Aftertaste shows some sweet notes, with a lot of vanilla, cream and icing sugar that shows a lot of pungency of the bitterness and malts as well with some robust, fairly heavy-drinking roasted notes of oatmeal coming out towards the end. Overall, a pretty nice and robust, deep and full-drinking beer that hits the stout/export category nicely and despite the frothy, bubbly look up front, the rest works out pretty nicely! I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Giant Foods (grocery) in Alexandria (Potomac Yard), Virginia on 03-June-2021 for US$1,99 sampled just over a year later at my house here in Washington on 10-July-2022.
Tried from Can on 11 Jul 2022 at 08:12

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
$2.25 can, TWSP. Dark brown with an inch of tan-brown head. Roasted malt, light smoke nose. Roasted malt, hint of smoke, copper, molasses, ash. Fine, forgettable.
Tried from Can on 14 Feb 2022 at 23:38

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
12oz can pours an opaque black with some lacey, creamy beige head. Nose has malt, toast, marzipan, some black licorice, some dark cacao. Flavor is very malt forward but also on for the style, some oats lurking, some smoke, some molasses, marzipan. Full bodied, creamy finish but relatively easy to drink.
Tried from Can on 08 Jan 2022 at 01:04