Real Ale Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Blanco, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Real Ale Brewing Company - Tap Room

Established in 1996

Contact
231 San Saba Court, Blanco, TX, 78606, United States
Description
Since 1996, we’ve been brewing in Blanco, surrounded by the natural beauty of the Texas Hill Country. When you get to make beer in a place like this, you develop a greater appreciation for the simpler things in life — fresh air, wide-open spaces, and working with your hands. We're proud to make beer with as little processing as possible. In addition to being unfiltered and unpasteurized, we never use preservatives or artificial colors. We start with water from the nearby Blanco River and the highest quality ingredients. Then we take the time to allow all the unique characteristics of the ingredients to shine. We believe doing less to the beer actually creates more complexity, aroma and flavor.

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Aromas are dark malt and roast with hints of coffee, cocoa and molasses. Flavors are similar to nose. A little more sweet then bitter or tart up front with growing sweet at the end. Decent but nothing special.

Tried from Can at Royal Blue Grocery on 09 Jan 2026 at 03:24


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6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Aromas are dark malt, roast, spice, maybe hints of dark fruit cocoa and coffee. Flavors are similar to nose with a little metallic. Single fermentation. Not bad not great.

Tried from Can on 06 Jan 2026 at 04:15


6.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 5.5

Citrus and old resin. Meh.

Tried from Draft on 04 Jan 2026 at 00:52


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

Can shared by Steve. Hazy, golden yellow, fine particulate mist, nice head with persistent head, nice lacing. Aroma is strong dank pineapple rind, lemon citrus, bread. Taste follows aroma. Smooth, frothy texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Good.

Tried from Can on 26 Dec 2025 at 05:27


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5

Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of roasted malt and anise. Taste is roasted malt, anise, dark chocolate, stone fruit, bit of ash. Nice.

Tried from Can from Central Market - Austin (N Lamar) on 18 Dec 2025 at 01:54

gave a cheers!

6.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Roast and a little caramel. Pours clear mahogany without much head. Some caramel sweetness in the end. Tap at Flying Saucer DFW.

Tried from Draft at Flying Saucer Draught Emporium - DFW Airport on 02 Dec 2025 at 01:31


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Pours hazy gold with a white head. Suspended particles. Tropical aroma. Taste is tropical fruit, citrus, pine notes. Good.

Tried from Can from Central Market - Austin (N Lamar) on 21 Nov 2025 at 01:47


7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Picked this 12 oz can up somewhere, can't recall exactly, but it is a Texas beer so there is that. It pours into my Cowtown snifter a indistinct yellow-gold with a healthy head of absolutely white foam.I smell plenty of citrus, grain and a promise of hoppiness. The taste is decent if a bit thin. There is lime to begin with, an apricot sweetness, crackers, enough hops to register and some pine. Actually it is fairly tasty without having a lot of forceful presence. I guess they'll save that for the imperial version. Yeah, sure.

Tried from Can on 13 Sep 2025 at 00:52


8
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Sixer from Total Wine in Dallas on a work trip. Drank a few, took the rest home & lost track. Best by 4/14/25.

Pint glass at home. Clear, dark, russet amber pour with a tall, sticky tan head.
Mellow soot, subtly smokey & mellow sweet chocolate coffee nose.
Taste is chocolate-laced coffee with some dark salty bread, slight calcium edge on the tail.
A twinge too strong but the first two went down really fast.

Good.

Tried from Can from Total Wine & More - Dallas on 20 Jun 2025 at 22:46


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Pours very dark. Chocolate roasted malts. The standard program for Ris but really good.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:33

gave a cheers!