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Ale Wagger, Saint Arnold Brewing Company

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Ale Wagger Brown

Saint Arnold Brewing Company

Houston, TX

Brown Ale

ABV: 5.8%

IBUs: 22

Packaging: Draft, 12oz. Bottles

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Ale Wagger is comparable to other brown ales in taste and drinkability. In short, it’s goo-ood. It’s distinctly bodied, a very smooth drink that could accompany a nice ribeye at dinner or a weenie by the pool for the summertime cookouts – a super versatile beer.

Ale Wagger has a malty sweetness to it, and is pretty mild on the hop bitterness.

For the average Bud-Light drinker, Ale Wagger might be a welcomed shift towards a different kind of beer. (We’re not picking on Bud Light drinkers when we say this, by the way. We just have friends that preferred light beer, and these are the beers we’ve recommended to them and got good feedback.)

Ale Wagger is a great balance of crisp, refreshing, and clean on the tongue with little to no aftertaste.

I gave this beer a 3 star because I like it a lot. It’s a good, bodied beer that can hold up to a plate of hearty food.

Ale Wagger has a deep golden-copper sort of color, like you’d expect from a brown ale.

This beer met my expectations in quality and drinkability. This nice folks over at Saint Arnold are doing allllllright if you ask me! I did expect it to be a bit heavier and bitter, but this was a welcomed surprise.

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Brock Wagner, owner of Saint Arnold Brewing Co., has three rescue dogs, from left, Frida, Bucky and Jackson. His company will help the BARC animal shelter, a city-run organization that promotes efforts to spay, neuter and adopt pets. Photo: Melissa Phillip, Houston Chronicle Staff


 

Artwork/packaging (bottle/6-pack) typical of St. Arnold, where they pay homage to the Saint. White background with burgundy and blue typography alongside black silhouettes of dogs.

You can probably find this anywhere good beer is sold. I’ve even seen it at corner stores. I got mine, as usual, from HEB.

This beer is good, good, good. I dig it. Did you know that a portion of sales of Ale Wagger go to support local rescue organizations for animals? What other cool Saint Arnold trivia do you know?

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Anthony Gorrity
tony.d@beerchronicle.com

Anthony's a Houston native, a Creative Strategist at https://ledgeloungers.com/, an adjunct instructor of Visual Communication at Lone Star College, and a UH Coog that loves good beer almost as much as he does his city. Anthony lives to help others and that's found a home helping some of the coolest breweries on earth with creative and marketing projects that can be seen on our Portfolio page. Fueled by hoppy lagers, sessionable IPAs, and gangster rap, he's ticked his way through H-Town, rocking the most unusual Nikes he can find. When he's not writing for us, he's with his family or very patiently rooting for the Rockets.

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