Real Ale Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Blanco,
Texas,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Real Ale Brewing Company - Tap Room
Established in 1996
Contact
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.
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Grapefruit and mango, green papaya. Pours clear golden with pretty good head retention. Bitter finish with some lingering grapefruit. Tap at University Draft House Town Lake.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Mar 2026
at 03:28
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Coffee, roast. Pours black with some mocha head. Finish cloys a bit, mash malt kind of vibe. Tap at Roosevelts at 7.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Mar 2026
at 00:04
7.1/10
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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
6.8/10
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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
6.1/10
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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
7.5/10
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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
7.9/10
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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
6.6/10
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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
7.3/10
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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
7.4/10
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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