January 22, 2012
Decent location and nice view. Plenty of space indoors and outdoors with live music. House beers are plain horrible; 5 styles that were all watery and astringent. Wish I had read the other reviews here before I went!

November 27, 2011
The view and setting is wonderful. Everything else is horrid. I went a few years ago and the beer was so awful I vowed never to return. But curiosity and the view brought me back again a few months ago. The beer was just as awful.

July 14, 2011
In short, there is no reason to ever go here especially if you have even heard of ratebeer.com, which you obviously have since you are reading this. The establishment is your run-of-the-mill gimmicky microbrewery that makes 4-5 of their own beers just to say they do. Brewing equipment is old and unkept, the beer is served force carbonated with no head formation, and every single beer on tap (I tried all of them) was lactobacillus infected, which probably improved them all. Food is overpriced and pretty poor. If you have the unfortunate experience of needing to eat in downtown Jacksonville, go somewhere that is actually good like BB’s or Charthouse. Don’t waste your money here. And definitely do not come for the beer.

February 11, 2011
I echo most of the existing comments. Disappointing. I was served a lager when I ordered a pale ale, or else the on-site beer was just that off/bad.

December 8, 2010
Awesome location on the water across from downtown Jacksonville. Thirty years, three name changes, and a couple bankruptcies ago this was a kick ass place to go... a real hotspot popular with the downtown yuppie crowd. I loved it. Now there is very little to draw any type of crowd. Expensive food, house beer that is an afterthought, and a bar that will suck any party mood right out of you. Corporations use it for an office party spot ( which was the reason for my attendance), but I imagine there is less of that in the current recession.

February 3, 2010
Great lcoation on the river walk. They food is pricey but can be top of the heap at times. We been here 3 times, to eat mainly good thing as the beer selection is not good and the brewed on site beers are about the worst of the A1A, 7 Bridges, ragtime, area beer. They make Bold city look good. Service has been good, selection if is ok if you want bud in a plastic bottle.

September 6, 2009
Wow, what an amazing location right down town on the water. Too bad the amazing (or even enjoyable) part of the visit ended right there. We opted to sit in the less formal pub area that is run down, a bit musty and almost no one here on a Saturday afternoon. I imagined with this location it would be crowded. They had five or so house brews available to try. Rumor has it they only brew beer about once every three months. I guess the demand is very low. But that means some of this light weight (not meant to be aged) beer I’m trying is more than a year old. The quality of the beer confirms it as the beer had no aroma, very tired yeast and various off flavors (when there actually was flavor to be sensed). I don’t think I’ll come back here for any reason.

August 16, 2009
Visited with ibrew2or3. WARNING!!! avoid this dump. They have a huge building right by the waterfront which could be an amazing beer garten. Unfortunately, this place is falling apart, at least that’s the impression I got after walking in. Looks nice and spacious until you are rerouted to the side bar which looks like the crummy area and makes you feel like an untouchable. Waiter looked passionately bored and almost insisted on sharing his boredom, The place had this old mid 80’s feel with tap handles that reminded me of smoked out mom and pop bars in Europe. Beer selection had some of the RCBC beers served in wonderful cheap plastic cups that definitely helped enhance the below average beers. Sadly for a brewery, they sell the disgusting BMC beers which really doesn’t make a lot of sense. Lucky for us, the beer samples were free. Most of the beers were either stale, flavorless, boring at best. Leading us to believe that they either brew once every blue moon or that they don’t clean the lines and keep the beers for months before brewing new batches. This was later confirmed to us by outside sources. Food was nothing exceptional. It’s sad because they have a prime location that could easily be an amazing beer spot, instead you have a rundown restaurant that is trying to look "in".

April 17, 2009
Nice building downtown on the waterfront. Big patio outside, boring non descriipt decor inside. Five house brews on tap. Lots of BMC. Seems like a destination top spot with beer as the side show. Not recommended.

February 13, 2009
A splendid riverside setting wasted on a depressing brewpub. The scenery does make up for the corporate monstrosity that this is but the plastic cup samples of horrible brews put it right back in the gutter.