Excel Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Breese, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2012

Contact
488 S Broadway, Breese, IL, 62230, United States
Description
Excel Brewing Company - Keep Cold - Drink Fresh - Don't Age

Excel Brewing Company runs a 20 BBL brew house along with 260 BBL's of fermentation space. We brew 5 all around beers and a couple of season and specialty beers. We also offer co-packing for regional craft breweries in 12 oz, 22 oz and 750 mL bottles.

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pour is a hazy yellow with a large white head. Aroma is a decent pine hop. Flavor is also a pretty decent pine hop with a wheat malt in the backround. Someone in our group said this tastes like trees. Pretty solid hopped up wheat beer.

Tried on 22 Jun 2014 at 18:56


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

Sampled from the tap at Bailey’s. Pours a clear light gold with a white head that dissipates nearly completely. Aroma has lots of straw and biscuit with some grains backing. Flavor is similar combining straw, grain and a light biscuit note. Crisp.

Tried from Draft on 22 Jun 2014 at 09:55


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Samples from the tap at Bailey’s. Pours a near clear light gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces slightly. Aron has light pine and grassy hops with a light wheat backbone. Flavor has same nice hop combination with a light wheat backing.

Tried from Draft on 22 Jun 2014 at 09:43


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap @ Baileys. Pours a golden appearance with a thin white head. Corn, hay, sweet malty nose. Decent body. Not that overly sweet. Toasted cracker flavor. Not all that bad.

Tried from Draft on 20 Jun 2014 at 18:53


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

On tap @ Baileys. Pours a hazy yellow appearance with a creamy white head. Nice softly floral, grapefruit, lemon zest aroma. The Amarillo hops come through nicely in the flavor though there is pretty high bitterness. Grapefruit, slight dankness, and tropical fruit. Low sweetness. Pretty good.

Tried from Draft on 20 Jun 2014 at 18:36


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

Bottle shared at RBWG 2014 Late Night tasting - Asheville. Pours mostly clear gold with a white cream head. Doughy malts, some straight bread, caramel, toast, toffee, light butter. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warm finish with rich sugars, more toffee, some butterscotch. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2014 at 06:51


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle thanks to Peter at RBWG 2014! Pours a near dark brown with a dark brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has lots of caramel with a bit of rye barrel and light sweet grains. Flavor has a lot of sweetness with some rye and a hint of grassiness as well.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Feb 2014 at 17:08


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle - Chocolate, vanilla and a caramel sweetness. Cloudy orange with a rich beige head. Caramel, chocolate and light chocolate notes. This is an absolutely awesome beer. Well balanced and tons of caramel.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Feb 2014 at 21:49


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle @ Beer Fart Dunegeon Aloft. Pours a Reddish brown appearance with a tan head. Super nice rye and caramel and whiskey aroma. A touch sweet and a bit goopy but the rye just comes through deliciously. Tons of caramel. Fun though a bit boozy.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Feb 2014 at 21:47


7

Tried on 16 Dec 2013 at 18:15