Has potential, but not there yet. (based on THREE visits so far)
As everyone has mentioned, the beer selection is amazing! And it is. Lots and lots of great beers, both foreign and domestic and both local and nationwide. That great IPA in your fridge right now, they probably have it in bottles, maybe even on tap. You cannot beat the beer selection.
On the downside, however, you can beat the price. My buddy had two IPA's (on tap):
1) one was $9 and one was $8!
2) both were served in the appropriate (but smaller) 10oz tulip glass.
3) neither were full due to the 1/2+ inch of foamy head.
so you get about 9oz of a fantastic beer, but at a cost of up to $1 per ounce.
My beers were $5 (pint glass) and $6 (tulip glass). Both were great, but the above issues still applied.
But wait, those prices don't include tax!
So when you get the bill, sales tax is added to it. This is bad for two reasons:
1) typically bar prices include tax so that the bartender doesn't have to make ridiculous change (e.g. everything ends in .00 or .50), but not here. So the bartender has to maintain a full drawer to provide the proper change!?!?!
2) this means the beer is even more expensive. That $8 beer is actually $8.64 and that $9 beer is actually nearly $10.
so billing in this fashion shafts the employees and the customers (and probably makes for worse tips too, but I'm only speculating).
Did I mention the beer selection is fantastic?
So they have this fantastic beer menu (a book really) but all of the staff tell you NOT to use it because it is not complete or accurate (and I noticed there are numerous spelling mistakes and typos, but that is improving). So to see what they have on tap, you have to go read the huge chalkboard across from the bar (or use the app). Great menu, but no one recommends it! lol
I haven't tasted the food, so I cannot comment, though I did not notice any typos on the food menu. I thought the food menu was somewhat pretentious, but viable if the Brass Tap is a destination that people go out of their way for, as it is not typical bar food.
So I think the Brass Tap has potential, once they get the kinks worked out and adopt a more reasonable pricing schedule. This is a neighborhood bar for me, so it has to find a happy medium as far as cost. I don't mind paying a premium for a good beer, but I'm going to buy it at Beer World for my fridge if it feels like I'm overpaying for it when I go out to the Brass Tap.
YELP apparently does not trust my review, tho others have expressed the same sentiment.
In short,
THIS PLACE IS TOO EXPENSIVE, AND THEY CHARGE TAX ON TOP OF THAT.
$10 FOR A FLIGHT. SORRY, NOT DOING IT ANYMORE.
Update 12.10.15: apparently they don't read their Yelp reviews either. Because none of the issues mentioned have been addressed.