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

Hazy brown with large beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and roasted malt. Sweet flavor with roasted malt, caramel, chocolate and and mild coffee notes.

Tried on 09 Sep 2008 at 07:22


5.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottled. A golden beer with chuncks of yeast floating around under a fluffy off-white head. The aroma is sweet and spicy - lots like a saison. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of citrus, leading to a dry fruity and spicy finish.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2008 at 16:51


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Pours with a small, white head covering a hazy yellow body. Decent lacing. Aroma of butter, fruit grass and pepper. Tastee is a bit bitter and very grassy. Fizzy mouthfeel.

Tried on 04 Sep 2008 at 01:06


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Flying Saucer - Houston on 07/27/08. Dark brown body with ruby highlights and a small tan head. Chocolate and roasted malt aroma. Caramel, roasted malt, light molassas flavor. Medium full body with moderate carbonation.

Tried from Draft on 09 Aug 2008 at 13:51


4.4
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5

On tap at Flying Saucer - Houston on 07/27/08. Very clear pale yellow body with a medium creamy white head. Corn, grain, and honey aroma with light floral hops. More corn and very light grain with a bit of faint honey and dry hops. Light body with moderately high carbonation.

Tried from Draft on 09 Aug 2008 at 13:40


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

On tap at Flying Saucer - Houston on 07/27/08. Clear golden amber body with a small frothy off-white head. Caramel and pale malt aroma with light floral hints. More floral and citrus hop flavor. Some pale and caramel malt. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

Tried from Draft on 09 Aug 2008 at 13:38


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5


12 oz bottle shared by beastiefan2k. 10.13.10 best if consumed before stamped on label. Pour is hazed yellow golden, with a smallish white head. Aroma is grassy sweet, mildly herbal, and rounded out with a nice soft floral bitterness. Clove yeast comes through in the back of the nose. Taste is the herbal sweet grass, followed right away by the clove yeast. Nice integration of flavors. Palate is medium, with a slicker mouth feel. Dry finish. Enjoyable, well made beer. Thanks for sharing Eugene. 8,4,7,4,15 (3.8).



Draft - shaker pint glass at Beavers in Houston, TX. Pour is hazy orange golden, not too much head. Very thick lacing remained during the entire beer. Aroma is very thickly sweet and yeasty. Sweetness is honey and flowery. Very much a trippel nose. Taste is citrus fruity, pears, wheat, candy sugar yeast and some intersting hay - yeastiness. Seems to be some hop bitterness present throughout. A slight bit cloying in the finish. Nice one. 8,4,7,3,15 (3.7)

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jul 2008 at 08:21


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with an amber/orange glare and with a slowly collapsing tan head. Mild acidic, spiced and hardroasted malt aroma. Spiced and hard roasted malt flavour. Holds a mild bitterness following this. Ends acidic and with a lingering roasted malt flavour accompanied with a mild chocolate smoothness.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jul 2008 at 09:01


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

From peter. Awesome aroma, big heavy fruity caramelized malts, with a dark bready fruitiness ala fig newtons, plus a graham cracker pie crust. Ruddy amber color, no head, very light carbonation. Flavor not as complex as the nose, dominated by a sweet bready/cookieish malt, and a slight alcoholic bite in the finish - which would be hard to mask at 11.5%! Full rounded palate. Nice but I probably should have cellared it another 2-3 years.

Tried on 28 Jun 2008 at 00:57


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at Flying Saucer. Has a cloudy golden color with a small white head. The aroma is very hoppy with light piney notes. Decent lacing on the glass. The taste is also very hoppy with citrus and a nice bitter finish. A good IPA from Real Ale.

Tried from Draft on 27 Jun 2008 at 13:57


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