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.
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to coat surface. Caramel malt aromas. Medium bodied with multigrain sourdough front to back.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2022
at 18:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Real Ale, a good brewery in the Hill Country of Texas, NE style IPA, not my favorite. I've got a 12 oz can of Fresh Kicks that was spotted at a close-by supermarket. Pouring inside of a snifter, I see the expected lemon-yellow body with a tremendous head of off-white foam, a heavy pour this time. I like the scent, tropical with a bit of dankness. The taste falls off somewhat, a little bland. Some lemon, hops, varnish, grain and bread. Some sweet, some bitter. Not tripping my trigger.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jan 2022
at 03:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Pinthouse Pizza Lamar. Pours black with small beige head. The aroma is wood vanilla, licorice, roast. Slick body, cocoa, licorice, nice sweetness, oak, boozy finish, very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Dec 2021
at 09:51
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and light pine aroma. Grapefruit and spice flavor with light pine. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and spice linger with pine.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Dec 2021
at 18:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
On tap at Hippies & Hops. Pours clear dark golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing in a plastic cup. Tropical, citrus peel, pine resin. A nice IPA, clean.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Oct 2021
at 19:12
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Flying Saucer. Pours a hazy orange gold with small white head. The aroma is passionfruit, wheat, dough. Thin body, passionfruit, lemon, wheat, light tartness, good.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Oct 2021
at 02:35
8/10
Spicy hops is right, deliciously spiced tripel, super easy drinking Belgian esters sweetness on point.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Sep 2021
at 17:57
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 7
Overall 6
Clear gold with a rich white head. Bready and sweet esters. Sweet and bready, touch of peppery notes and a bit of bubblegum. Fine.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Sep 2021
at 03:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Clear light gold with a rich white head. Nice light citrus notes. Citrus, peel. bitter pith and a bone dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Sep 2021
at 21:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Red Horn. Pours almost black with a creamy beige head. Roasted malt, citrus, dark chocolate.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Sep 2021
at 03:45