I'd never been to a Granite City before this visit. Apparently they are a regional restaurant & brewery chain.
I came in for dinner one evening - and to try out a flight of brews.
I sat at the bar and ordered the meatloaf - which was actually very good. If I was ranking Granite City only on my food experience - I'd give them 4 stars. But...
I also ordered two flights of brews:
The Northern (American Lager) (4.4% ABV)
Peel Off (Witbier) (5.5% ABV)
Prairie Vixen (Hefeweizen) (4.8% ABV)
The Admiral (Pale Lager) (4.7% ABV)
The Duke (Pale Ale) (5.4% ABV)
Batch 1000 (DIPA) (7.2% ABV)
Nemesis (Black IPA) (5.5% ABV)
Oktoberfest (6.1% ABV)
I found all of the brews to be very vanilla - very average. Nothing about any of them got my taste bud excited. None of them were bad, just, well, average.
The service at the bar was pretty good.