Chino Valley Brewery

No Longer In Business

Interesting tap room, small, but with a couple of groups in there. Probably 10 people max can really hang out in here. Only 4 beers on tap, all of their own. Quality was below average. Nothing so bad, but the palate across the board of these beers is astringent and harsh. Some were diacetyl bombs. Service was friendly. About $8 for a flight of the 4 house beers. Simple place to stop by for some oddball beers you won’t find anywhere else as they only have one bar account. They do have a food truck on Fridays, which is something to keep in mind.

Visited here shortly after they opened for business. As is typical, its located in an industrial park. Not much to see inside, some homemade tables and a simple bar and tap setup. The beer was not good, but hopefully they can improve (quickly).

Visited August 2012.

Oh man. What are these guys doing? They have a homebrew system, only one fermenter (that I could see), and everything was just awful. The space is smallish and the counters are those shelves that I bought from Lowe’s for my garage. I think we spent all of 10 minutes here. That said, I am due for a revisit to see if things have gotten any better.

Oh yeah, these guys are former cops, and they are near a lot of checkpoints.

Small tasting room with an even smaller brewing system. Looks to be about the same size as some big homebrewing systems (maybe 10 gallon?). Cool bar area with seating scattered throughout. They had four house beers but another handful of them on nitro as well as CO2. Service and prices were good, beers were (on the whole) pretty bad.