Grays Hausmann Ale

Brewed by Grays Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Janesville, Wisconsin USA

Tap at the UW Memorial Union. Clean straw color with a smaller off white head. Mild aromas of pale malt and mild hopsack. Faily thick in feel for appearance. Light sweet malt start with a lightly acidic hops backbrop. Some light fruit amid the frey. A standard american golden ale.

12oz. bottle from Woodmans in Madison. Medium amber with a small off white head. Aroam is mild sourish malts, hops, and light citrus. The aroma was sour malts but the flavor is sort of a candied malt along with hops and grains. Not bad.

Contract brewed by Gray’s Brewing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Served only at their Memorial Union to celebrate the Union’s 75th anniversary. This was a hard beer to assign a type to, it is made to resemble the beer served there immediately after prohibition, by Hausmann Brewery. It had a sweet smell, and a slight citrus flavor. An average beer. If you go to try this beer, you need to be a member of the Union (or UW student or faculty member) to buy beer there.

I bought a bottle at Woodman’s in Madison. The body was medium gold with a white head. The aroma had potatoes, over ripe tomatoes and some green beans. The taste is some light potatoes with green bell peppers. There is also a little hint of black pepper spice. A slick and thin mouthfeel.

Picked up six pack from Bob McFarland’s Liquors in McFarland, Wisconsin. Pours a clear caramel amber brew with a thick white head that quickly dissolves to a fine film and some surface bubbles. Aroma of light caramel malt, green vegetables, grassy hops with a touch of dry hay. Taste is lightly carbonated, medium bodied with a taste of toasted multi-grain crackers some dried leaves and a mild bitterness. Finish is little gritty, with some pepper/herb spice aftertaste. Terrific to see another historical pre-Prohibition Wisconsin label has been revived by Grays but the flavor is a little off for a Pre-Prohibition recipe.

Bottle thanks to Skyview! Poured a clear, brilliant medium orange with a short, well-retained cap of white head. The aroma picked up candied caramel paired with a dry floral hop presence.. soft with building sweetness the deeper you inhale.. quite pleasant. Flavor had a sweet, yet darker caramel and vegetal base with grassy and floral bitter accents.. left a rather lengthy vegetal finish (was pretty good up until that point). Light-bodied and again felt good until the finish... tacky veggies, some sour fruit, and grass left a less-than-pleasant final impression. This wasn’t far from a solid session brew.. just need to iron out a few kinks.

From a 12 oz. twist cap long neck brown bottle with a coded freshness date stamped on the neck of bottle. Made an average appearance, poured a clear macro lager golden with a foamy white head that settled into a thin lacing, decent carbonation. Had a hay and husk nose with a light sweet maltiness in the background. A crisp and smooth light bodied mouth feel, average drinkability. I was surprised by the taste, a nice hay and husky bitterness upfront that is cut by a balancing dry, crisp grain cracker maltiness and a subtle hay and dry malty finish, very pleasant. Not a bad macro lager from Gray’s, tasty and balanced, would be a good beer to consume after doing some outside work under the sun.

12oz bottle-A gold body with a white head with an aroma of malt and vegetables. A taste of malt with a little hops.