May 6, 2012
Not bad. Their "pub only" brews can be quite delicious. The everyday beers are meh. Love the "beer cellar" room downstairs. Definitely worth the stop when in town but dont expect to be blown away.

April 28, 2012
Brewery: Do the tour, its free and fun Pub: Large resuruant with two bars, on when you immediatly walk in and one down the steps to the right. This place fillls up almost nightly and its best to make reservations ahead. Bar up stairs features holes where Elliot Ness was shot at. Bar down stairs is like a celler and usually not quite as crowded. Food is upscale pub fare and tasty. Never a problme with service during my 3 years coming here. Lots of fun.

February 18, 2012
Great place to remind you of the Prohibition days! Gotta love the Lake Erie Monster as well

February 2, 2012 [ Updated February 4, 2012 ]
This place is always busy. From open until close it seems. I have eaten in the bar area, restaurant area, cellar, beer garden, upstairs, and have attended several events across the street in the tasting room. And have toured several times. They have marked at the bar a bullet hole where someone took a shot at Elliott Ness. That is pretty cool. Service is typical and can be slow when they are busy. Food is upscale bar food. Its always very good and consistent. They only carry their beer on tap which is a downer. But they make solid beer so that’s not such a bad thing. And they always have 1 or 2 pub only exclusives on tap to try. Overall this place is very cool. Great setting, place has a ton of history. If you go downstairs to use the bathroom just walk into the cellar area to check it out. They tap Thursday firkins in the cellar there and have held events there as well. Its worth a look. Overall a great brewery here. I just wish they collaborated more with other local places. They just keep themselves isolated from the ’scene’.

January 17, 2012
place has some serious charm from the big bar on main floor to the beer garden to the pld school irish pub in basement just outstnding

December 26, 2011
nice but been to better brew pubs.

December 8, 2011
Visited during Cleveland Beer Week. Extremely crowed. We came to get a beer sampler, and I would have preferred to sit at the bar, but we were put upstairs. It’s a cool building, but I wish the upstairs was given a little more attention. The beer wasn’t really anything you can’t get at a store. I would come back, but only if I was also visiting Fat Heads for better beer.

December 6, 2011
Very crowded, small bar area with another small bar in the basement. Not many tables. About a 30 minute wait to eat on a Saturday at 3. Service was pretty good. All their regular beers on tap plus a couple brewpub exclusives. Food was awesome. Old World Burger and Pretzel Chicken are magnificent. Prices werent bad, definitely better than some surrounding areas. Gift shop prices were pretty high though, as an aside. I find it odd that the going rate for pint glasses in Cleveland is $5.95, when I dont think I’ve ever paid more than $4. Overall it’s a pretty nice place, but the small, crowded bar area and lack of any interesting pub exclusives will probably keep me from going back.

November 24, 2011
The food is really amazing 99% of the time. The other 1% is usually when they have some sort of change over in the menu based on seasonal foods. Some of the food is a bit pricey for what you get and the rest is well worth the money. The place itself creates a good atmosphere with all the old history of the building and wood work. Service, like everywhere you go, can be hit or miss. It’s usually very good though. The beers that are exclusively on tap at GLBC are usually nothing short of amazing. Firkin Thursday should not be missed.

October 23, 2011
Great food, but the beer selection can be a bit lacking at times. I do not understand why they will not pour pitchers of beers that are over a certain abv. Service is sometimes great and sometimes not. I have noticed a decline in the quality of their beers over the years as well. The Blackout Stout and Lake Erie Monster are always good though. I would stop in if you are in the Cleveland area, but I would not kick myself if I missed it.