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| - Stopped here on a work trip to Cleveland. I tried many beers and some food and overall thought the beer was really good and the food was nothing special. I will add that the food here is not the style of food I like (makes me think of a chain restaurant) and that certainly influences my opinion. But if you like humongous portions of food of mass produced chain restaurant quality (I honestly don't mean that as an insult) then you will probably like this place. I came here with a large group on a Tuesday and they were super busy and packed. We ended up just eating and drinking in the area by the pool tables while standing and sitting on stools. If you are coming here I would recommend maybe checking if they take reservations since they were so busy on a weekday. But they do have plenty of room to stand and wait and even play pool or skee ball so it's not that bad if they don't.
First the beer. I was not real familiar with Fat Head's before coming here. I had only heard of them but never tried their beer. Due to this I wanted to try a sample flight so that I could try multiple styles to get an idea of what the brewery offers. Their flights are huge with eight beers included and you don't get to choose which beers go on the flight. It includes the first eight beers on the menu which is a little disappointing because some of those styles I definitely wouldn't have ordered. I am also used to flights at other breweries only containing four or five beers so that if I find one I really like I can drink a pint of it afterwards without having to drink too much beer. But this would be fine if you wanted to split a flight between two people. After the flight I also ordered an individual sample of another beer because I wanted to try all the medal winning beers they had on tap.
The nine beers I tried were Pumpkin Chucker Stout, Head Hunter IPA, Angels for ALS IPA, Bumbleberry Honey Blueberry Ale, Rye Saison, Boogaloo Belgian Blonde, Caveman Keller Beer, Alpenglow Weizenbock, and Bonehead Imperial Red Ale. The Pumpkin with chocolate and spices was good and I am not the biggest fan of pumpkin beers but I do like a good stout and this wasn't overly spiced or sweet with good malt flavor. The Head Hunter is a quite good west coast style IPA with a real piney hop flavor and I can understand why it has won multiple medals. The Angels on the other hand was a real citrusy fruit forward IPA which I loved and would definitely drink again if I had the chance. The Bumbleberry is a blueberry ale and was definitely my least favorite because I just don't like blueberry beers but it wasn't overly sweet but it had tons of blueberry aroma on the nose. The Rye Saison was good and was also one of my favorites with some good yeast flavors. The Boogaloo was a pretty typical tasting Belgian blonde with the yeast being the prominant flavor and some sweetness to it. The Caveman was also one of the beers I didn't like as much with noticeably less carbonation and nothing that really jumps out as a defining feature but it would be good for someone who likes a more ordinary beer without much hops and a little sweet malt flavor. The Alpenglow was another favorite as a wonderfully balanced and tasty wheat bear. The Bonehead had a sweet flavor expected from an imperial and with noticeable hops and was a good overall beer.
And now for the food. Before I ordered any food an order of Bacon Cheddar Fries was ordered as an appetizer by someone to share. It came out as a mountain of fries that would have killed anyone that tried to eat the whole thing. It was covered in copious amounts of cheddar cheese sauce (yes, sauce, not cheese but cheese sauce) and topped with a large amount of crumbled bacon. The quality is something I would find at a baseball game with cheese sauce being the defining point but for what I would consider to be total junk food it served it's purpose and others liked it. I then ordered The Southside Slopes Headwich which came out once again looking huge and unwieldy. The bun itself was the biggest thing dwarfing the contents of the sandwich but the fillings themselves were abundant as well. It contained a large keilbasa sliced lengthwise, pierogies fileed with cheese, american cheese, onions, and horseradish sauce. Once again I would complain about the processed American cheese on the sandwich, but otherwise I thought the sandwich was good. I liked the sausage and the pierogies were actually really good on a sandwich and every so often through the mouthful of bread, meat and cheese I would taste some zing from the horseradish. I wouldn't eat here regularly because I would surely have a heart attack but it's not bad sometimes while drinking a lot of beer.
Overall, I liked the beer a lot and would defintely drink Fat Head's beer again. The food is overbearing chain restaurant food but all things have a place and the food was not bad just nothing special in my opinion. The service was great as well!
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