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Murphy's Wagon Wheel

(Brewpub)

Last updated: September 4, 2000

107 North Lincoln Avenue
Hastings NE 68901

Phone: +1 402-463-3011
Fax: +1 402-463-3181

Opened February 1, 1998.
Brewer: Bob Murphy.
125 bbl annual capacity.

The Wagon Wheel has been a Hastings fixture since 1889...the Murphy family bought it in 1971. Back in the old days, the railroad workers and passengers would hang out here and play cards, a tradition that continues to the present.

Bob wedged a three-barrel Specialty Products system into a tight corner just to see if craft beer would fly in Hastings. He says he's sold about 40 kegs of his own beer in eight weeks...not bad!

All of the tap handles say "Cask Conditioned", but all of the beers are served via CO₂ pressure.

My Opinion Of The Beers That I've Tried:
15.0 points overall

• American Pilsner
  Style 15 - Classic Pilsener
  • 19 points - Beer #30-2455, at the brewery, March 18, 1998
    Very pale, moderate carbonation, thick head. Lots of hop chunks...end of the keg. Spicy Saaz aroma. Good body, kinda fizzy, lots of fresh hop flavor. If industrial "American Pilsners" tasted like this, there'd be no need for craft breweries.

• Bock Dark
  Style 12 - Bock
  • 12.5 points - Beer #30-2458, at the brewery, March 18, 1998
    Deep red, low carbonation, thick head. Very slightly perfumey. Very light body, a little sweet, but not much there at all.

• Red Ale
  Style 4 - Mild / Brown Ale
  • 14.5 points - Beer #30-2456, at the brewery, March 18, 1998
    Red-brown. moderate carbonation, thick head. Very clean aroma. Light body, slightly sweet, clean finish.

• Wheat
  Style 6 - American-style Pale Ale
  • 14 points - Beer #30-2457, at the brewery, March 18, 1998
    Pale, moderate carbonation, good head. Hint of wheat in the aroma. Light body, high carbonation, some hop flavor that doesn't last long.

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