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| - Decent food, but only drink if you like weirdness in your beer.
We came on a Friday night. The place is tiny, but warm & hospitable. The food was actually pretty good. They serve pretzel bun burgers & chicken sandwiches. It's cooked well but nothing to write home about. The duck fat fries pretty much taste like regular fries. Pass the salt & ketchup because there's no seasoning or flavor to them other than a fried potato. They charge extra for those, too.
But when we go to a brewery, we want to dig into the beer. That's what we go for, right? This place tries really hard to be different and set itself apart...too hard. In a word, the beer here is "presumptuous". The descriptions are lengthy and "out there" and you really have no idea what you're getting or what to expect. The servers are very friendly and do talk about the beer, but it's impossible to solidly describe these beers because you can't nail them down. We love good, honest craft beer and can appreciate a good brew even if it's not our favorite type. At this place, we didn't even finish them. It's not that they tasted bad, they just tasted...weird. Too weird. We tried a couple different beers each. After I got mine, I went back and re-read the descriptions on the list again. What I tasted was nothing like what I read, and I believe the reason why is that there is just soooo much going on in one brew that everything gets lost. Every beer is described as having more than a few high notes. Of course, when you try to do too much at once, what you end up with is cacophony.
After reading a few other reviews of the place, I think the weirdness of the beer is what people are referring to as "trying to be hip & trendy". The atmosphere wasn't hipster at all. It was a nice, rustic beer joint, and the burgers aren't "fancy" or avant garde. There was a diverse group of people there, but where it fell into the "trendy" trap for us was the beer. There's a lot going on in the beer that you don't usually see in your average craft brewery...and maybe there's a reason why you don't usually see it. Also, we were told by another couple sitting across the high bar from us that the place rotates brews quite rapidly. I gather that means that even if we'd found something we liked, it might not be there next time, and we'd have to start the process over. In short, I would eat here again for sure, but I'd probably just have a Coke with it.
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