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New Glarus Brewing — Hilltop

2400 State Highway 69
New Glarus WI 53574
Telephone: +1 608-527-5850
Hours: Open daily 10:00am-4:00pm.
Brewer: Dan Carey, Randy Thiel

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Notes

Visited: May 1, 2011

Opened: 2009

Annual Production: 145,000 bbl

Contributors: Diane Crawford, Nicole Carey

Updated: February 28, 2013

News

2012-09-01: New Glarus Brewing Co. attracts a crowd (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
2012-08-03: The mystique of New Glarus Brewing's fruit lambic beers (The Daily Page)
2009-06-10: New Glarus Brewing to celebrate grand opening of Hilltop Brewery this weekend (77 Square)

Beer List

Abt
Alt

German-Style Brown Ale/Düsseldorf-Style Altbier
- Date: September 6, 2011 (#8635)
  
  Package: bottled
  
  Place: at the brewery
  
  Score: 18½ points
  
  Appearance (3)
  Bright mahogany. Low head.
  
  Aroma (3½)
  Fruity, plums, grapes, raisins. Toffee.
  
  Mouthfeel (9)
  Medium-big body, fizzy. Sweet dark caramel malt, toffee, molasses. Alcohol. Warming.
  
  Overall Impression (3)
  Tasty.

Barley Wine

Barley Wine-Style Ale

Date: August 7, 2012 (#8896)

Package: bottled

Place: Ridgeview Liquor, Ashwaubenon WI

Score: 17 points

Appearance (3)
Bright amber. High carbonation. Dense head.

Aroma (3½)
Fruity, spicy hops. Lots of caramel. Peach.

Mouthfeel (8)
Thick, fizzy, creamy. Hugely malty, with a massive peach-apricot fruitiness. Medium bitterness. Fruity, malty flavors through the finish.

Overall Impression (2½)

Black Top IPA

American-Style Black Ale

Awards:

Gold Medal, 2011 Great American Beer Festival

Date: February 4, 2012 (#8726)

Package: bottled

Place: from the brewery

Score: 16 points

Appearance (3)
Black. Thin head.

Aroma (3)
Huge fruity, piney hops.

Mouthfeel (8)
Light body, really fizzy. Very mildly roasty with a huge fruity hop flavor. Not all that bitter. Lingering fruity finish.

Overall Impression (2)
Sort of the opposite of Crabtree Eclipse.

Date: May 1, 2011 (#8549)

Package: bottled

Place: at the brewery

Score: 18 points

Appearance (3)
Bright golden. Dense head.

Aroma (3)
Sweet, toasty, grainy.

Mouthfeel (9)
Light-medium body, fizzy. Sweet malt and sweet honey, clean and tasty.

Overall Impression (3)

Date: July 15, 2012 (#8879)

Package: bottled

Place: Ridgeview Liquor, Ashwaubenon WI

Score: 17½ points

Appearance (3)
Bright brown. Massive head.

Aroma (3½)
HUGE chocolate.

Mouthfeel (9)
Light body, a little fizzy. Whole lot of chocolate. A little grassy at the end.

Overall Impression (2)
Not a lot of Abbey.

Date: September 11, 2011 (#8637)

Package: bottled

Place: at the brewery

Score: 18 points

Appearance (3)
Golden. Hazy. Dense head.

Aroma (3½)
Bananas. Grassy, spicy. Cloves.

Mouthfeel (9)
Light-medium body, fizzy. Sweetly malty with lots of spicy cloves. Fruity, mild bubblegum flavor. Spicy finish with lots of wheat malt.

Overall Impression (2½)

Date: May 1, 2011 (#8552)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 17 points

Appearance (3)
Bright brown. Thick dense head.

Aroma (3½)
Richly toasty, malty.

Mouthfeel (8)
Medium body, creamy. Roasty, toasty, grainy malt. Grassy hop flavor, low bitterness. Big toasty finish.

Overall Impression (2½)

Date: May 1, 2011 (#8553)

Package: bottled

Place: at the brewery

Score: 17 points

Appearance (2½)
Golden. Opaque. Low head.

Aroma (3)
Spicy-citrusy, tangerine.

Mouthfeel (9)
Light-medium body, very fizzy. Spicy, earthy, Biére de Garde flavors. Fairly bitter. Citrus, grassy hops. Lingering spicy finish.

Overall Impression (2½)
Bottle-conditioned with Brettanomyces.

Date: September 27, 2011 (#8646)

Package: bottled

Place: at the brewery

Score: 18 points

Appearance (3)
Golden. Hazy. Dense head.

Aroma (3)
Intense orange-citrusy hops.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium-big body, fizzy. Lots of citrusy hop flavor, fairly bitter. Finishes clean and fruity and hoppy and just a little warm.

Overall Impression (3)

Date: May 3, 2012 (#8790)

Package: bottled

Place: at the brewery

Score: 18 points

Appearance (3)
Yellow. Massive head.

Aroma (3)
Very lemony, some bananas, bready.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium body, smooth. Lots of bready malt. Lots of citrus. Nice banana background. Low-medium bitterness. Some alcohol in the finish.

Overall Impression (3)
Good Weizenbock.

Date: May 1, 2011 (#8551)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 19 points

Appearance (3)
Bright golden. Dense head.

Aroma (4)
Huge spicy, citrusy hops.

Mouthfeel (9)
Light-medium body, fizzy. Fruity hops, nicely bitter. Tasty mild caramel malt underneath.

Overall Impression (3)

Date: September 11, 2011 (#8640)

Package: bottled

Place: at the brewery

Score: 15 points

Appearance (3)
Bright red-amber. Moderate head.

Aroma (3)
Mild toasty, molasses, malt character.

Mouthfeel (7)
Medium body, smooth. Darkly malty, fruity, toasty. Sweet. Grassy. Sweet finish.

Overall Impression (2)

Date: May 1, 2011 (#8550)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 18 points

Appearance (3)
Golden, hazy. Dense head.

Aroma (3)
Mildly spicy, mildly grainy.

Mouthfeel (9)
Light and fizzy. Fruity, malty, grainy, and clean.

Overall Impression (3)
Good beer, and even better than I remember it!

Date: September 11, 2011 (#8638)

Package: bottled

Place: at the brewery

Score: 15 points

Appearance (3)
Amber. Dense head.

Aroma (3)
Grassy. Grape fruitiness. Toasty. Sulfury.

Mouthfeel (7)
Light and fizzy. Mild toasty malt, fairly sweet. Clean toasty finish.

Overall Impression (2)

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