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| - This place is a hidden winner. I'm going to award it the mighty 5-stars under the assumption you go on a brewery tour like I did. Having been on a brewery and winery tours I can easily say this was far and away the best tour I've ever taken, nothing else even comes close.
The guy giving the tour was as he admitted not the usual fellow who gives them but he said he was starting to give more and more and hopefully for you he does. Unfortunately, I cannot remember his name at the moment he is one of the brewmaster, a short little guy and a hell of a nice guy and great at making the tour interesting and keeping things really loose. If you haven't been on brewery tours before, they can somewhat boring after a while, unless you are really and I mean really passionate about it. It's a lot of tanks and containers. While Ale Asylum has these elements the fact that we got to walk in between the tanks, get up there and see and smell bubbling yeast, the bottling machine, really walk among the facility was a kind of closeness I've never had before.
Additionally, the tour comes with free drinks, what isn't amazing about that? In order to even enter the brewery area, everyone by guide order HAD to have a drink in hand.
The beer itself is very flavorful, as someone who also writes the occasional beer review too, the various styles of beer they have are all quite robust in their flavor with strong bodies and a good but not overpowering finish. Their porter has a nice coffee roast to it, the summer ale is refreshing and light, and their IPA is a mother of a IPA, great if you like a really hoppy one. Overall, none of their styles is tremendously different from its designation, the porter tastes like porter, the wheat ale like wheat ale, the snozberries like snozberries but all of them are really great representation of their respective type.
I was fortunate enough to also get to snack on a pizza which had a surprising amount of spice to it, a nice treat. Much better than typical bar food and pizza that could hold its on.
This tour was great if you haven't been on one before and want to this is the place to do it. There were folks on our tour who were actually on their second tour of duty. I can't testify to how it is in the evening but it's more classy and cleanly presented inside than most bars which again sets the AA apart. It's a nice looking place inside, with a nice staff, and some nice beverages and eats. Yeah, a visit to the Ale Asylum...NICE!
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