Goldwater Brewing Co. began with a family tradition of brewing, rooted in Chad and Dillon McClelland’s childhood experiences with their father, Greg, an avid home brewer since 1986. What started as a hobby in their garage evolved into a shared passion, leading to the establishment of a 10bbl brewery with three locations.
The turning point came when Chad, inspired by his travels through craft beer scenes worldwide, decided to turn their family passion into a professional endeavor. With full support from Greg, Dillon, and their brother-in-law, Jimmy, the family set out to build their dream. After months of planning, experimenting, and overcoming challenges, Goldwater Brewing Co. officially opened its doors on May 1, 2015.
Their success stems from the combined strengths of each member: Greg’s business acumen, Chad’s brewing expertise, Dillon’s creative vision, and Jimmy’s operational skills. Together, they’ve built a brand known for quality, innovation, and community. As they continue to grow and introduce new, exciting beers, the family remains committed to their roots and the people who have supported them from the start.
Can. Pours hazy pinkish peach, medium white head, decent lacing. Aroma is fruity. Lime, berries, porcupine lprickly pear. Flavor is medium tart, citrus, dust. Light plus body 4,7,6,3,13
Bottle. Pours clear deep brown, small tan head, some lacing. Aroma is cocoa, bourbon, vanilla, roast. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter. Not getting coconut, nor really that much vanilla. Thin body.
Poured up on tap at Tipsy Cactus where it exhibits a murky copper gold body that supports a thin off white head of foam. The modest aroma offers some guava and a sense of pineapple. The taste delivers fresh tangy guava juiciness and then thin pineapple and an odd sort of malt sensation. Decent.
32oz crowler pours with a somewhat hazy deep gold body with thin copper hues and supports a thin off white head of foam. The aroma offers up clementine, tangerine and a bit of guava and mango. The taste delivers tangy and modestly bitter citrus clementine and tangerine juicy goodness. Below those brighter notes are thin layers of sweet soft juicy guava and mango and a sliver of cantaloupe. This is real nice.
Poured up on tap at Tipsy Cactus where it exhibits a murky near opaque deep gold body that supports a thin off white head of foam. The aroma pulses with tangerine, pineapple, clementine and mango. Nice. The taste delivers smooth juicy tangy goodness coming from fresh tasting tangerine flowing into soft mango and juicy clementine like citrus. Wow. Deep involved and nicely balanced with tangy and bitter citrus hoppiness. Solid. Earlier Rating: 1/31/2018 Total Score: 4.4 Poured up on tap at Typsy Cactus where it exhibits an opaque dull dark gold body that supports a light tan head of foam that leaves behind some sheet lacing. The aroma offers up mango, cantaloupe, peach and some grapefruit. The taste delivers smooth mango, pineapple, peach, guava and a bit of cantaloupe. It's fully soft and juicy but has a nice undercurrent of bitter citrus hops. Solid. So easy drinking.
32oz crowler pours with a hazy copper gold body that supports a nice off white head of foam. The aroma offers up pineapple, clementine, tangerine and an apricot melon like sensation. The taste delivers juicy sweet pineapple and apricot backed up by tangy tangerine and clementine citrus hoppiness. It creates a citrus tropical fruit balance into the finish that threatens to get too sweet and lucky for me it doesn't.
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours black with a brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma is slightly whiskey forward wit a bit of chocolate and roast supporting. Flavor has chocolate and whiskey with a bit of dark grains and bitter roast backing.
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear gold with a slight peach hue and a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has citrus rind and grass with a bit of onion and grain backing. Flavor has earthy grass and citrus rind with a touch of pine and grain backing.
Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours near black with a chocolate brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has earthy chocolate, dark grains, cinnamon and a touch of nuttiness. Flavor has a nice combination of chocolate, roast, cinnamon and maple with some cinnamon supporting