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Central Waters Brewing Company

United States · Regional · Known for a full range of stylesWebsite
Known for a full range of styles

Rural Wisconsin craft brewery founded in Amherst in 1998. Central Waters is entirely employee-owned and solar-powered — one of America's most sustainably operated breweries. Known nationally for their barrel-aging program: Bourbon Barrel Stout and seasonal barrel releases are among the Midwest's most acclaimed dark beers.

12Beers
6Styles
6.3%Avg ABV
1998Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 12%

Beers by Central Waters Brewing Company

12 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Central Waters Brewing Company brew a broad range across 6 style families.

Signature · 12 beers
Stout 3Lager 2IPA 2Pale Ale 2Amber 2Porter 1

Across these 12 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

malty
9 of 12 beers
caramel
8 of 12 beers
smooth
8 of 12 beers
hoppy
7 of 12 beers

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:

typical for similar stylesCentral Waters Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
caramel
in 8 of 12 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more caramel than typical.
noble-hop
in 4 of 12 · typical similar styles brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Notably more noble-hop than typical.
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.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 39%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 12
beers above the median
#3102
best ranked beer
Central Waters HHG IPA

Their beers place in the Top 39% of the catalogue on average, across 12 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Central Waters Brewing Company

Rural Wisconsin craft brewery founded in Amherst in 1998. Central Waters is entirely employee-owned and solar-powered — one of America's most sustainably operated breweries. Known nationally for their barrel-aging program: Bourbon Barrel Stout and seasonal barrel releases are among the Midwest's most acclaimed dark beers.

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Location
Amherst · Wisconsin · United States
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