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| - I stopped by here this past Tuesday evening with my wife and her parents for dinner. The inside of Saddle Mountain Brewery is somewhat large with bars on both sides of the restaurant and some booths and tables in the middle. Behind the back bar you can also see the brewing equipment (fermenters) so can tell that the beer is brewed here. It is decorated to look industrial so you can she the air ducts, there's so pipes separating a bar and dining room and the light covers looked industrial as well. Last but not least they have a little merchandise area where you can buy apparel, pint glasses, etc.
As I often do whenever I visit a new brewery I went ahead and ordered a flight of beer. At Saddle Mountain a flight consists of 6 beers and I chose the IFR Nitro (oatmeal stout), Rays Gold (IPA), Hop Snob (west coast IPA), 300 Foot Steve (imperial red), clandestine (Scottish Ale) and Hops and Oats (OPA). All of the beers here ended up being good representations of their types with my favorites being the west coast IPA and the OPA. As an appetizer our group ordered the nachos. While we were waiting for them the waitress came back and told us that they were out of the pork chili verde and asked if we would like chicken breast instead. Since we didn't have much of an option we agreed. As soon as they put it down it looked great. The chips were clearly freshly made and not of your standard variety. All of the toppings worked well with the nachos too and I especially loved all of the jalepenos they put on it. I think that they did this to compensate for the fact that the chicken wasn't in a chili verde sauce and so this may not be standard. Then for my entree I went with the fire burger. It consisted of a burger, fire roasted poblano chile, spicy chile pepper blend, poblano cream cheese, pepper jack cheese, fried onion straws, onion and lettuce all on a brioche. As you can imagine it definitely had a bit of a kick to it! It wasn't overly spicy though and the brioche bun was a good pick as it held together throughout my eating of it. The burger was cooked nicely and my favorite part was probably the fried onion straws which gave the burger a lot of flavor and a little bit of a crunch too.
The bottom line for me is that I would head back here again in the future. All of the food here was really good and the beers were too.
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