Crown Valley Brewing & Distilling
Microbrewery in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Established in 2008
Closed in 2024
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown coloured body with a thinnish, single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of insanely pungent chocolate, light coffee, squash, allspice, cloves and cinnamon with a noticeable bite of nutmeg near the end as well. Full-bodied; Squash flavour at first without the body from it, along with a ton of toasted malts, earth, grain, alcohol and pure vanilla pod flavour with a heavy helping of brown sugars and bourbon and/or rum noticeable at the finish with a drier flavour and definitely more pungent than typical. Aftertaste shows some malt, alcohol, oak, bunches of vanilla and ending with an elegantly poised spice jumble with allspice, canella and nutmeg all very strong, pungent and well incorporated. Overall, a very nice beer with a ton of spices, a lot of body, good character and complexity and a smooth sweetness throughout the beer. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Corner Store (Bait and Tackle) in West Palm Beach, Florida on 26-December-2017 for US$3,99 sampled in my hotel room here at Disney World [Dolphin] on 28-December-2017.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Clear dark bronze pour with a fleeting white head and spotty lacing. Looks like soda. Strawberry nose. Flavor follows the nose. Very sweet, but not artificial. Not beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Sticky and gross like the floor of a nightclub after closing. Pink pour. Sweet finish. Bottle pour.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Some blackberry and a little tang. Certainly better than the strawberry version. Quasi pleasant like in laws on your birthday. Bottle.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
750 ml bottle from a trade. 2015 vintage, no bottle date but it was in with my 2015 bottles in my cellar. Aroma is caramel, dates and plums, earthy and spicy hops. A lot of hops still live here.
Flavor is raisins, figs, and prunes. The hops are strong and bitter with almost to much bitterness. Full body and medium carbonation. But the alcohol is is obvious and with the bitterness being too assertive to be real enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured from bottle thanks Airforcehops caramel amber with a tan head. Aromas of bourbon caramel malt toffee and dark fruit. Taste is sweet caramel bourbon toffee and dark fruit. --- Beer merged from original tick of Bucking Bronco on 31 Dec 2016 at 23:22 - Score: 7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Raspberry and light lime. Tangy mash malt. Not super pleasant. Bottle i Missouri.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
12 oz bottle that was included in a “local mix” World Market 9 pack. The pour is a copper golden, along with a pinkish hue, with a noisy thin off white head. A bunch of loud carbonation at first, then settles down quick. The aroma is strawberry jolly rancher, strong, sweet and synthetic. A bit of apple cider present as well, though certainly beneath the strawberry. The taste is strawberry sweet, not quite as unnatural as the nose, though still a bit chemical. Apple cider kicks in and carries the finish. The cider element seems more natural and clean. The palate is medium bodied, surprisingly low carbonation (based on all of the carbonation on the pour) and the cider sweet finish. This didn’t really do it for me, though if you like strawberry sweet and cider it may be your thing.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.49 |
| Beers | 34 |
| Ticks | 136 |
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