Capital Brewery
Middleton, WI
Available: WI, IL, MN, MI, IA, MO, KS
Located in a former egg processing plant, Capital Brewery produced its first brew in the spring of 1986. Currently, Capital produces up to 16 different beers per year: eight annuals, four seasonals, and up to four limited releases.
ABV: 5.0
ABW: 3.98
Color: N/A
Bitterness: 16
Original gravity: 1048
Not bad,” it says on the label. With diminished expectations like that, how can you go wrong? Well…it’s not a real appealing aroma, a bit ashy, a hint of sweetness. But the beer itself goes down smooth and clean, with a malty zest that sticks around and makes itself at home. This could maybe use a touch more hop aroma and bitterness, just to crisp it up a bit, but like many Capital beers, it’s real friendly. Get some cheese curds and relax with it.
For reasons I can’t quite fathom, text on the side of the Supper Club label reads “Not Bad,” which may or may not be what the brewery thinks of the beer. Either way, it’s a fair description of this rich gold lager with the sweet, icing sugary nose and clean, slightly rounded, straight-forward flavor of faintly honey-ish malt and gently drying hop. Not complex, not particularly memorable, but also not bad, I’d say.
Lew Bryson writes about beer and whiskey from his home in southeast Pennsylvania. He has a family and two dogs. That's all you need to know.
Once described as “beerdom's Brillat-Savarin,” Stephen Beaumont is the author of five books and countless articles on beer, spirits, food, travel, and how it all goes together.
