Straight to Ale
Microbrewery
in
Huntsville,
Alabama,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2009
Contact
Description
Founded by local home brewers in 2009, Straight to Ale has quickly grown to become one of Alabama’s largest production breweries.
In the summer of 2016 we opened our new 55,000 square foot facility at Campus 805, reclaiming a long vacant Middle School campus on the edge of downtown Huntsville and turning it into a thriving community of breweries, bars, restaurants, and local shops. At this new location, we expanded to include cider and mead production along with distilled spirits (Shelta Cavern Spirits), a scratch made kitchen (Ale’s Kitchen), a pinball arcade and pool room (Ronnie Rayguns).
In the summer of 2016 we opened our new 55,000 square foot facility at Campus 805, reclaiming a long vacant Middle School campus on the edge of downtown Huntsville and turning it into a thriving community of breweries, bars, restaurants, and local shops. At this new location, we expanded to include cider and mead production along with distilled spirits (Shelta Cavern Spirits), a scratch made kitchen (Ale’s Kitchen), a pinball arcade and pool room (Ronnie Rayguns).
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pretty good milk stout, evenly split between moderately sweet chocolate notes and roasted malt, with a minor java streak on the back end mixed with anise and dark fruit. Finishes bittersweet with a mild dose of char on the fade. Not bad.
Tried
on 08 Jul 2018
at 00:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
can - pours brown white head - nose and taste of cheap "12 days of Christmas" cardboard chocolate, raspberry and coffee - medium body
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jun 2018
at 23:18
7/10
Very light and thin, good flavor but overall lacking strength.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jun 2018
at 20:45
7/10
Huge chocolate raspberry nose and forward, boozy throughout, bitter back.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jun 2018
at 19:08
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz. can. Canning date could not be read. Aroma is very weak yeast phenols, banana, clove, old yeasty basement. Flavor is again mild. Clove, hint of banana, and lemon drops. Body is not chewy or thick. On the lighter side. Nothing wrong with this but it lean's on American wheat ale rather than a true German.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2018
at 22:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. Grainy barley malt and straw aroma. Golden yellow with giant white head and moderate effervescence. Moderately sweet citrus, malt, and mildly bitter straw flavor. Okay body. On the sweet side.
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2018
at 01:30
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pretty decent effort at a Bavarian German style hefeweizen. Aromas are bananas cloves sweet wheat malt and bitter yeast. Flavors are somewhat like nose traditional sweet dominates with good carbonation and some bubblegum. Not as refined as the actual Bavarians, but not a bad effort. Good body and finish. Nice beer.
Tried
on 17 May 2018
at 06:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz can from Tavour. Nose is chestnut, berry, coffee, and a hint of chocolate. Clear dark rusty brown with a medium beige head. Flavor is nutty, lightly bitter, and a hint of alcohol. As much as the extra ingredients try to add it's not much when compared to a great old ale like Adam.
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2018
at 22:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Aromaz are mostly chocolate malt and raspberry with the barest hint of coffee. Flavors are similar to nose with coffee a bit stronger some good Carbonic Tang fairly sweet a little bitter in the Finish good body also some booze warmth towards the end of the Finish. Good beer.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2018
at 03:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz can from Tavour. First rating from Alabama. Aroma is raspberry, nutty, caramel, wet stone, licorice, chocolate, alcohol. Pours hazy brown and looks amber in the light; has a one finger beige head that collapses somewhat quick into a ring. Taste is lightly sweet, alcoholic, with flavors like the aroma but with noticeable grassy hop and sherry character. Finishes moderately bitter (high for this style). Kind of a crazy concoction, but it works for the most part.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Mar 2018
at 04:14