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| - Growlers Pourhouse Round Deux:
I swear that I didn't mean to spend 6 hours at Growlers today. It just happened...but I'm glad it did. After my last experience at Growlers I wrote a snarky and somewhat scathing review of my time there. I don't know if all restaurant/bar owners (or employees) read Yelp reviews of their establishments but Growlers certainly did. I promised Jeff that I'd visit the bar again and I did much sooner than he probably expected. Here are the changes from then until now:
1) Upon first visit the beer menu board was nearly impossible to read. First, the writing was much clearer on the board today. The best addition is that there are beer menus printed out that list the tap number and the corresponding beer. I noticed that one tap in particular had both the beer that was on tap and the beer that was in the on-deck circle. Pretty cool.
2) The waitress that I had during my first visit was surly, unconcerned and unknowledgeable about the product she was selling. When I bellied up to the bar today MacKenzie was right on top of things. She definitely knew her stuff and offered suggestions. At shift change I was lucky enough to have Drew behind the bar. Gotta say that he was considerably less attractive than MacKenzie but definitely spoke my language when it came to beer. Both were the type of bartenders that should work selling craft brews. Top notch all around. I didn't see the server from my original visit during my long stay today.
3) The beer was skunky and metallic tasting during my first visit. In an effort to perform an experiment properly I drank 7 different beers (6 from the regular taps and 1 cask) to make sure that a good cross section of the lines were tested (a good excuse to drink more). Absolutely no taste issues today. I let Drew know that I was the jerk who wrote a sarcastic review of the place, etc and he told me that they were having some problems with the lines at one point. Perhaps my first visit was during that time.
4) OK, so maybe the homemade pretzels looked and tasted like Super Pretzels, but let me tell you that the hot dog at Growlers pretty much kills every other hot dog on earth. Have you ever seen real meat juice come out of a hot dog before? Right. You haven't. That's because you haven't had this dog. I think it has 3 different meats in it (all real meats people--no snouts or holes in this sausage), which means that there's one meat for each meal. That's right--this is the food for all occasions. I'm not kidding.
If you read my first review you're probably wondering: holy @%$#, man!! How could things change so quickly? Maybe they didn't. Maybe Growlers had an off day. Maybe my first server really was a teenaged Claire Danes. Maybe the beer lines were having a bad day. Who the hell knows. All I know is that I spent 6 hours in a bar today when I had other things to do and I loved every minute of it. Well, except the part where I saw how poorly Bobby Hurley has aged.... Jeff, Drew, MacKenzie, et al I loved my Saturday at your bar. I'll do it again soon.
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