New Glarus Brewing Company
Commercial Brewery | New Glarus, WI, United States of America
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New Glarus Brewing Company (New Glarus, WI, United States of America)
Beers
Overall average: 73 (logged 123 times)
Collaborations
Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Across America: There and Back (collaboration): 50 (logged 1 time)
English Pale Ale / Bitter
Logs for beers from this brewery
Pleasant, Candi sugar and malt, smooth. Doesn’t strike me as strong as I’d expect a quad to be, but it’s nice.
Can at Odin Lounge
I've been told the apple makes this feel "less special," but I do like that the musty tart-sweet of the apple neutralizes any of the hints of syrup that a beer like the Belgian Red had. Both of these were Glarus-typical barely-beers, but quite pleasant.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Definitely avoids the cough syrup-ness of the last tasting, although it does very much skirt the edge. Nicely tart up front; there's just a hint of too-sweet on the aftertaste.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
New Glarus Nectar Ale (2022)
Smells more tart than actually comes through in the flavor, which is a very pleasant grape/peach. Ends with some funk and is maybe too sweet, but is nice.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
I mean, this is almost like drinking strawberry preserves fresh from the jar. It's so, so jammy. It's not cloying, though, I think the rhubarb halts the sweetness right at the very end into something a tiny bit funky and tart.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Definitely not drunk fresh, but this was still really good - fizzy and drying up front with a caramel sweetness, kind of like a Vienna lager crossed with a pale.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
I don't know if this has turned or something? But it does have more of a metallic, hoppy resing, drying finish than I would have expected from a nut brown. It was ok, but ok at best.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Meh. I guess it's fine.
Maybe it's less flavorful after the Strawberry Rhubarb.
It's just a low flavor hint of apple spritzer.
Bottle at Home
Super tart strawberry. Not really a beer in any sense.
It did make me headachy before I even finished. I don't know if it's because of the "beer" or some other reason.
Bottle at Home
It's kind of like an unfiltered hard apple cider.
It's obviously not very much like a beer.
Bottle at Home
New Glarus Black Currant (2022)
My first impression was that this was a bit too sour - but as I went, the sweetness and the sourness kind of balanced out. And it was a pleasant sour. In the end, surprisingly good.
Bottle at Home
Alcoholic and sweet. I don't feel like it's anything related to a normal spotted cow. It's actually really good, but in a St. Bernardus high alcohol way.
Bottle at Home
Perfect balance of tart and fruit and… um… beer?
Also perfect for a hot summer day.
I would expect a quad to be bolder, mustier? But this was fine to drink even if a bit unremarkable.
New Glarus Black Currant (2022)
It certainly tastes like black currant, which is nice and unusual, but like most of these New Glarus fruit beers, is way more juice than beer. I usually have a hard time drinking intensely fruity berry juices, and this had more or less the same effect on me.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Really a tasty lager. Starts very Bohemian but finishes with a bit of hay and cereal, brackish finish. Nicely balanced. Not sweet like a Helles, but has a good body.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
I dunno… seems kinda normal and standard. Not in a bad way, just not in a creative and inspiring way either…
Bottle at Home
Maybe it was in opposition to the Hanami but this was very much on the edge of syrupy.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
New Glarus Black Currant (2022)
Wow. That's dark and fruity. It's dark fruit, with an undertone of dryness.
Bottle at Home
Bitter and brackish. Also feels like it's a headache waiting to happen. I mean, it's not like I'd turn down free beer or anything . . . But I might regret it later.
Bottle at Home
Well it has character. The label says "lager" but coulda fooled me.
Bottle at Home
Well it seemed good when I first started but then the Blandness just takes over and in the end it's just meh
Can at Home
Amber in color, Amber . . . In . . . Flavor?
I never know how to describe country lagers/ales. There's a certain commonality with two brother's Domaine Du Page. But this is lighter, and probably a bit less flavorful.
Honestly, I like it best in a mix with Totally Naked.
Bottle at Home
Drinking a beer, Totally Naked, what's not to like!
More seriously, light, refreshing, not a lot more to it. It's like a really really light (in bitterness) Czech pilsner.
Honestly, better if you pour it between Two Women.
Bottle at Home
This actually tastes somewhat like an American pilsner, clean, not too bitter, with a beery efforvescence.
After a while, I start to notice the yeasty flavors of a Belgian, +which I don't remember from previously) which them comes to completely dominate the flavor profile.
Bottle at Home
This is drinkable, light, but not very notable. Crisp. The description is right in that it is mellow and without bitterness, but it is also without much character. Would be easy to chug a 6 pack, if that's what you were going for.
Can at Matt's place
A straight, crisp lager in the American style but with plenty of flavor. Grassy, clean bitterness. Very refreshing.
Can
Slightly rooty sweetness, slightly herbal bitterness, but otherwise clean lager with some fruit notes. Really nice.
Can
Tastes like a very dry Belgian pale; yeasty with esters that are stopped short by non-sweetness. It's a chewy-yet-light sort of beer. Not exactly refreshing, but pretty tasty.
Bottle
Raising a glass of my favorite to the return of Maltlog.
Bottle at Home
Yup, tastes like an IPA.
Edit: actually, on further drinking, there are some oddly sweet undertones to the flavor. I don't know what it is.
Bottle at Home
Very light hazy yellow color, a lot of white head.
Hint of bitter flower on the nose.
Mild, bitter lemon rind taste.
This would be a wonderful replacement for a mass market light beer. But not otherwise all that interesting.
Bottle at Home
It is sweet. But it also is a beer. So I don't feel bad liking this.
Bottle at Home
Somewhat sweet stout. Bitter, a little bit of that European dark unpleasantness flavor. The one their soda-like beers have. So not the best.
On the other hand, I may be thousands of milliliters in, so you can't necessarily trust my judgement.
Bottle at Home
I'm less prejudiced against the whole "barely a beer" crowd these days, although this is still - it's not tart or funky enough to be a sour, it's not even dry enough to be a cider. It's very much a fruit confection of a beer. But... it's really tasty, like a cross between a Martinelli's and a really, really light wheat beer.
Bottle at Tougo Coffee Company, Seattle
This is still simply terrible. Half went down the drain, and that was really working at it.
Bottle at Home
It has an odd tarty fruitiness, and an almost bubblegum flavor. It's not bad per-se, but I wouldn't buy it again.
Actually, I couldn't finish the bottle. So I've lowered the rating.
Bottle at Home
Well today this didn't blow my socks off but it's still tasty.
Bottle at Karthik's
Today i liked this better than the serendipity but any given day they could go either way
Bottle at Karthik's
Sweet sparkling raspberry juice. Raspberries aren't my favorite fruit by any measure, but this... was perfectly decent for a party drink.
Bottle at A Friend's
My least favorite of the fruity sours from ng... Still
Bottle at Karthik's
Doesn't taste very stouty, though it does has the milk sugar flavor. It's more like someone accidentally took a central european ale, thinking it was a stout, and then put it through the milk processes.
Bottle at Home
Extremely tasty. Nice fruitiness and sourness.
Bottle at My parents house
"I was wondering if you have anything in the way of a dessert burrito?"
Wait two naked women? Oh wait I'm getting beer names mashed up...
Probably should have tasted this before the coffee stout, oh well. Still seemed solid.
It's not a cider. It's a beer. But tastes like apples. Which creates a cognitive dissonance that may be worth it just for that. But I'm not sure exactly how I'd feel about this on a second tasting...
I mean yeah i guess i can see why it's their most popular beer but it just seems kinda middle of the road nothing special to me. I'd have been annoyed if I'd driven three hours just for this. Fortunately there are other beers here.
Usually these coffee stouts are too coffeeey but this one balances the coffee and the stout well.
Surprisingly juicy, like an IPA. Actually pretty decent
It's a fine, kind of normal beer
Clean with a slightly puckering bitterness.
This was great .though only if you enjoy sweet fruit beers.
Les thick than I'd expect, but certainly stout and coffee
A nice Brown, slightly less meaty thani would normally expect with a flavor I might liken typo apricot .
Caramel, with mildly bitter hop notes. Kind of boring, although it might have been stale for how long it had been sitting in the refrigerator.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
I don't actually like beer aftertaste so maybe this was a given...but I liked the fruitiness before it got icky
Bottle tasting at Odin Lounge
Very fruity, I think I liked it, but I wouln't drink too much of it.
Bottle tasting at Odin Lounge
Has the taste of a sparkling apple cider with a slight hint of cranberry tartness. Like the Belgian Red, it's really hard to tell this is a beer or even alcoholic, but unlike that one, this is maybe a little too sweet. It took a long time to clear the taste out of my mouth.
Bottle tasting at Odin Lounge
Builds tartness over time but goos taste
Bottle tasting at Odin Lounge
Tastes great but would not drink as a beer. Strong cherry and chocolate taste.
Bottle tasting at Work
High rating because this may be the tastiest sparkling fruit juice I've ever had. Blind, you'd be hard pressed to identify this as a beer, or even alcoholic. Tart, strong cherry flavor is the key, and it's very good.
Bottle tasting at Odin Lounge
Good as a sparkling fruit juice. Hard to tell it is a beer.
Bottle tasting at Odin Lounge
I'll admit, this is only barely a beer. It is completely fruit.
Nonetheless it was my entry point and you gotta stand by the one you came with.
Bottle at Home
Lovely fruit, just a hint of sour. I think this might actually be better than the Belgian Red.
Bottle at A Friend's
A Madison standby. A bit more complex than standard American beers, but still brewed so as not to offend.
Draft at Buffalo Wild Sings, Madison