Capital Brewery
One of Wisconsin's oldest craft breweries, founded in Middleton (near Madison) in 1984 by Ed Janus. Capital specialises in German-style lagers and ales — an unusual focus for American craft. Wisconsin Amber and Supper Club are Wisconsin dining and bar staples. The brewery's beer garden is a Madison-area summer institution.
Beers by Capital Brewery
15 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Capital Brewery brew a broad range across 5 style families.
Across these 15 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Blonde Doppelbock
Their beers place in the Top 42% of the catalogue on average, across 14 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Capital Brewery
One of Wisconsin's oldest craft breweries, founded in Middleton (near Madison) in 1984 by Ed Janus. Capital specialises in German-style lagers and ales — an unusual focus for American craft. Wisconsin Amber and Supper Club are Wisconsin dining and bar staples. The brewery's beer garden is a Madison-area summer institution.
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