April 18, 2011
I was shocked to see how packed this place was on a Sunday night. They only had 5 house beers on draft but they had 6-7 other taps some nice, Lagunitas wtf, others utter crap, to all those hipsters still drink pbr stop embarrassing yourselves. With the exception of the stout nothing really stood out. The pepperoni pizza, though a bit overcooked, was still flavorful. the restaurant is in a converted firehouse which made for a dramatic setting. All in all it wasn’t a place I’d make a special trip for again.

February 21, 2011
Converted from an old firehouse, BAR has a mainly dark, untreated wood and open brick interior with wide open rooms. The place has various sections with its own separate bars, plus their are lofted tables as well. Cool looking place. Usually there are only 5-6 beers on tap brewed from the facilities. About the beer, it’s not that great; the beers I tried were flat, too watery, and were sour. However, their flatbread pizza was delicious.

August 20, 2010
taps, long bar though was fairly busy when I went an everning pre-school session. Their beer is OK, the main reason for going. Lots of tables, including some intimate tables. Looks like a student hangout, with a rustic appearance overall. Downtown, and easy part of a pub crawl. Sevice was average, but it was fairly busy as I said.

October 13, 2009
This place is beautiful looking, cool old exposed brick, concrete walls everywhere, and cool little nooks. There was some sort of show happening in the back room that was really cool looking... what struck me about that was that we saw some experimental electronic music the first time I ducked in, then later there was some heavier kind of punk rock happening, just kind of cool how they mixed it up. The service was basically bad, but no one was outright rude. The beer selection was ok, but the beer we ordered that was made in house might have been the worst beer I had on my entire vacation. What can I say... it’s a cool place, the apizza looked awesome, and you can get good beer there. It’s ok.

July 20, 2009
Quite the electic decor this place has. I’m pretty sure the vibe is excellent in the late evenings. One dining room on the right side, an odd bar with fermenters and unfinished walls on the left, and a dazzling techno dance room in the back. Lots of care has been taken into decorating the place, it is obvious. If only the same care had been taken in crafting their beers...Apparently the pizzas are very interesting, but we didn’t stay around long enough because most of the beers were problematic.

September 24, 2008 [ Updated September 26, 2008 ]
beer tour 09/22/08 stopped by to check out the beers. Hostess first stated that wait time would be 10-20 minutes, then pointed out a bar we could sit at instead, so points to her. Waitress came and took order, beer sampler for me, water for wife. None of the beers were anything other than ordinary, although the stout was the best of the bunch. Place was very crowded, so possibly I am missing the appeal, but from a beer only stand-point I was not impressed.

April 16, 2008
Pizza is really good and if you are looking to dance to techno it works to but the beer is, ehhh. I found the pale ale as a drinker the best of the bunch. Of course I normally go darker but they were just a bit too flat and not balanced. When i was 21 I loved the place but for different reasons. Still worth checking out and yes, the pizza is pretty good. During late afternoon the bartenders are helpful but forget it after that.

September 29, 2007
The Damn Good Stout was delicious and we had a great pizza. The bar itself was pretty crowded and I was disappointed in their pale ale.

September 15, 2007
Stopped by at 2:00pm on a Friday and had the whole place to myself. They were out of 1 of their 5 house beers (their stout at that). Decent pizzas. I got good service (because I was the only one there!). Nothing to go out of your way to (at least it is minutes off of 95).

July 3, 2007
As with most (nearly all?) American brewpubs, this one loses on the beer. The beer is average, and they don’t even have a huge selection of it. The food? Well, it’s limited to pizza, but the pizza is damn good. The quality of the pizza is enough to redeem my other complaints about this place. The service was quite slow, I might add. Atmosphere? It’s a bit strange...the bar part has a garage door which opens onto the street in warm weather. As night falls, this place becomes filled with lots of pretentious people...not really my style. But the pizza is damn good...