Stevens Point Brewery
Stevens Point Brewery was founded in 1857 by Frank Wahle and George Ruder in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and has brewed without interruption ever since, supplying Union troops during the Civil War and making near-beer and soft drinks through Prohibition. After decades under the Shibilski family and a spell with a Chicago import company from 1992, it returned to Wisconsin ownership in 2002. Point Special Lager remains the flagship; the brewery also makes hard ciders and sodas, brews under contract for other brands and opened a taproom in 2024.
Beers by Stevens Point Brewery
17 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Stevens Point Brewery brew a broad range across 6 style families.
Across these 17 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:
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.
Point Special
Their beers place in the Top 37% of the catalogue on average, across 13 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Stevens Point Brewery
Stevens Point Brewery was founded in 1857 by Frank Wahle and George Ruder in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and has brewed without interruption ever since, supplying Union troops during the Civil War and making near-beer and soft drinks through Prohibition. After decades under the Shibilski family and a spell with a Chicago import company from 1992, it returned to Wisconsin ownership in 2002. Point Special Lager remains the flagship; the brewery also makes hard ciders and sodas, brews under contract for other brands and opened a taproom in 2024.
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