First off I love local breweries! I was excited to come down to Mesa for dinner and checked out Yelp and found a new brewery had opened downtown. We had to check out DE.
My first impression was positive. There was a blue grass band playing in the corner and had a cool outside patio. We sat down at the bar waiting to try beer. My main complaint was that it took nearly 5 mins for anyone to greet us or at least say a word to us. I used to work in the restaurant business and I'm forgiving on people that are busy and working hard, but there wasn't many people in the bar, and I counted 5 other people at the actual bar with us. I could see the 2 bartenders were busy but I was watching one wash glasses and talk to other employees and talk to other people at the bar besides us...hmm...we were just about to leave but were finally greater with "had anyone talked to you two yet". I decided to try their beer because I'm not in Mesa that often and wanted to try the brewery.
I had the Route 66 IPA and the wife had the super strong imperial IPA. First and foremost I'm a huge fan of IPAs and that's pretty much all I drink. I honestly really didn't like this one. It was like an unfiltered IPA with a taste if bananas. Like a cross of a Hefe and a IPA. I tried my wife's imperial and it was horrible as well?... I asked for a sample of the Clubbers IPa they make and it was even worse! I've never been to a brewery I didn't like but I have now.
The only reason I don't give it 1 star is because I didn't try all the beers. To be fair I may come back one day and try the others to give them a fair rating, but after subpar service even when it's wasn't all that busy, trying 3 beers that I would never try again...a 2 star rating is all its getting.