Olde Hickory Brewery

Microbrewery in Hickory, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1994

Contact
2 3rd St SW, Hickory, NC, 28602, United States
Description
Independently-owned craft brewery providing North Carolina with quality beers since 1994.

Beginning in 1994 with a 7 barrel converted dairy system, we set and accomplished the goal of providing unique traditional ales & lagers available through OHB. Quickly we outgrew that system.

In 1997, we began the renovation of an 1880 Historic Landmark building, which now houses our brewing facilities, a 25-barrel Price Schonstrom brew house.

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8.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
Imported from my RateBeer account as Olde Hickory Photon Sphere (by Olde Hickory Brewery):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 18/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5

27/IX/19 - on tap @ Borefts Day 1, BB: n/a - (2019-1577) Thanks to the international RateBeer Crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear dark brown beer, creamy beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: oh my, lots of tonka bean, vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon, caramel, chocolate, lovely stuff! MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of chocolate up front, spicy, tonka beans, some chilli, alcohol, caramel, more chocolate, nice one, really lovely! Aftertaste: cinnamon, tonka beans, spicy, alcohol, vanilla, good roast, lovely beer!
Tried from Draft on 27 Sep 2019 at 22:15

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Olde Hickory The Event Horizon: Spectrum 10 (by Olde Hickory Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

27/IX/19 - on tap @ Borefts Day 1, BB: n/a - (2019-1525) Thanks to the international RateBeer Crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear dark red brown beer, no head. spicy, oxidized, caramel, sweet impression, alcohol, spicy, cinnamon and cloves, weird. Probably spices from the gin then? MF: soft to no carbon, medium body. Taste: nice roast, sweet, some alcohol, bitter, malty, chocolate. Aftertaste: more roasted malts, coffee bitter finish. Not getting those spices in the flavour though. Also didn't get any of the honey...
Tried from Draft on 27 Sep 2019 at 22:15

7.3/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Olde Hickory The Event Horizon: Spectrum 9 (by Olde Hickory Brewery):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5

27/IX/19 - on tap @ Borefts Day 1, BB: n/a - (2019-1524) Thanks to the international RateBeer Crew for sharing today's beers!
Clear dark red brown beer, no head. Aroma: lots of coffee, caramel, chocolate notes, malty, raw grains, some cow fodder even. MF: no carbon, medium body. Taste: very roasted, bitter, coffee, some caramelised malts, dry, cocoa powder. Aftertaste: bitter finish with lots of coffee, malty, slightly sweet, some alcohol, bit oxidized.
Tried from Draft on 27 Sep 2019 at 22:15

6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 7 Overall 7
Sampled at Borefts 2019. Clear golden with white head. Massive dank classic hops, sweet caramel malts, grassy, dry herbs, grapefruit. Medium sweet, quite bitter. Over medium bodied.
Tried on 27 Sep 2019 at 19:46

8/10
Sampled at Borefts 2019, Friday. A black beer with a big tan head. Aroma of sweet dark caramelized malt, toffee, some liquorice. Taste of sweet toffee, caramel, sweet dark chocolate malt, vanilla. I like it.
Tried on 27 Sep 2019 at 19:44

5/10
Tried on 27 Sep 2019 at 18:03

7/10
Tried on 27 Sep 2019 at 18:02

8/10
@bbf’19, Sweet, sugary, raisins, malts, granular, bourbon, great brewery, great beers, love it
Tried on 27 Sep 2019 at 16:44

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Sampled at Borefts 2019. Very dark brown colour (but not entirely black). Brownish head. Aroma's: umami, wood, salty even, sweetish, roast. Retronasal it's sweetish, wood, salty, dark chocolate. Flavour is moderate sweet, dark chocolate, mocha. Medium bodied. Long finish with tones of coffee, moderate bitter.
Tried from Draft on 27 Sep 2019 at 16:35

7/10
@Bbf’19, kastanje kleurtje, zoete zachte barley wine, caramel, zoet, rogge, klassieke barley wine.
Tried on 27 Sep 2019 at 16:19