The night before we went here I had a Penn Dark at a bar. It was very good, but I rarely drink dark beer.
That being said I was very excited to go to the brewery and have some good German food and beer. We were seated very quickly and the waitress was nice, but said a guy who was busy would be our waiter....seems that didn't happen as she came right back to take our order.
We order a brezel (Pretzel with beer cheese), and I got a schnitzel sandwich and a Penn lager. The food came before the appetizer.....guess she was busy too. The brezel and schnitzel sandwich were fantastic. The food here is top notch and in my opinion saves this place. My lager however was awful. So bitter, I barely got through it.
I decided to get the Octoberfest beer a shot as I tried my girlfriends Penn Gold and thought OK, not great. The Octoberfest was better, but still awfully bitter and just not very tasty.
I'd go back for the food, but Hofbrau definitely has them on the beer.