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Gritty McDuff's Brewing Company
396 Fore St
Portland, Maine, 04101-4026
United States
(207) 772-BREW | map
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Ratings by Duhast500:
Reviewed by Duhast500 from Rhode Island
4.25/5 rDev +12.1%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | food: 4.5
4.25/5 rDev +12.1%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | food: 4.5
Set just a few blocks from the waterfront, Gritty McDuff's was just one of the places on my list to visit when vacationing in Portland, ME. I seeked it out for a late lunch after just arriving in town and was happy to find it on a tourist map. The wait staff was pretty welcoming and friendly and had a decent amount of knowledge of the beers featured. The menu was quite good for a brewpub and my meal was quite good and the portion size was great. It didn't get too loud while I sat back and enjoyed my lunch but I'm sure it would be different on a game night or other event. The beer I chose was an IPA and was nice and fresh. I will be making sure to stop in when in the area again.
Aug 11, 2010More User Ratings:
Reviewed by jmdrpi from Pennsylvania
3.72/5 rDev -1.8%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 3.75 | service: 3.75 | selection: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev -1.8%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 3.75 | service: 3.75 | selection: 3.75
Stopped in for a beer after dinner on a Sunday night at the brewpub in downtown Portland. Old school type brewpub, large bar, lots of wood, and dinning table. Draft list is centered on traditional styles, including a couple of cask beers. The beer I had was decent. Didnt have any of the food, looked like typical pub menu.
Sep 06, 2021Reviewed by erosier from Connecticut
4.03/5 rDev +6.3%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 3.75 | selection: 4.25 | food: 4
4.03/5 rDev +6.3%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4 | service: 3.75 | selection: 4.25 | food: 4
Great spot in downtown Portland making old school types of beers. The service was good, the food was pretty good too. Selection of beers was great, the dry irish stout was fantastic, great to see that as a choice. The ambiance is an old school bar with an old school mug club. Overall it's worth a stop if you're in town.
Jul 24, 2021Rated by Davepoolesque from Massachusetts
3.48/5 rDev -8.2%
vibe: 3 | quality: 3 | service: 4.5 | selection: 3.25
3.48/5 rDev -8.2%
vibe: 3 | quality: 3 | service: 4.5 | selection: 3.25
Hole in the wall. Super dark. Dark wood and low lighting. The beers tasted old. Super divey. Went her while we waiting for dinner.
Sep 12, 2016Reviewed by Grogsky from Canada ()
4.44/5 rDev +17.2%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 4 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4.5
4.44/5 rDev +17.2%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 4 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4.5
If you've got just a few minutes to try a few samples and experience some craft beer in Portland, ME, I highly recommend checking this place out. Upstairs is great, but if downstairs is open, definitely head down!
Apr 23, 2016Reviewed by ScorpioFemme from Pennsylvania
4.68/5 rDev +23.5%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 5 | food: 5
4.68/5 rDev +23.5%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 5 | food: 5
We Want Gritty's!!
Southern Pennsylvania needs Gritty's to find a distributor in York County who will bring your incredible Scottish, Christmas, and Halloween ales to our area so the locals can taste splendor in a glass! I am forced to drive to Philadelphia (90 minutes each way!) to get my Gritty's Fall & Winter Ale fix but hope that I won't have to one of these days. If you haven't been fortunate enough to enjoy one of their seasonal ales (for lover's of Scottish & ESB's), you are missing out on their yummy versions of those styles. I miss Maine terribly and Gritty's almost as much!
Oct 25, 2015Southern Pennsylvania needs Gritty's to find a distributor in York County who will bring your incredible Scottish, Christmas, and Halloween ales to our area so the locals can taste splendor in a glass! I am forced to drive to Philadelphia (90 minutes each way!) to get my Gritty's Fall & Winter Ale fix but hope that I won't have to one of these days. If you haven't been fortunate enough to enjoy one of their seasonal ales (for lover's of Scottish & ESB's), you are missing out on their yummy versions of those styles. I miss Maine terribly and Gritty's almost as much!
Reviewed by LeRose from Massachusetts
3.49/5 rDev -7.9%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 3.25 | service: 3.75 | selection: 3.5 | food: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -7.9%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 3.25 | service: 3.75 | selection: 3.5 | food: 3.5
Stopped in for lunch on a Wednesday - not a lot of people in at the time until the raucous crowd from the BrewBus dropped in...
We were seated at a communal table that was located in a room away from the main bar area. Nice enough seating and the community feel was cool (without the brew bus gang). Our server was very pleasant and well-informed. The menu was a little confusing about what constituted a flight, but the waitress explained it clearly. Not much to question on the menu - it is pub grub.
There were nine beers in the flight, two duplicates on cask which was a nice way to compare and contrast those beers. The beer was mostly OK, but I though the stout was awful. The food was very good - nicely prepared fish sandwich and my wife said the fish tacos were tasty as well. Good onion rings.
More than the vibe (which to me includes the people) the place does have a nice ambience from all the brick - it's a pretty cool building and the downstairs/outside seating would have been nice on a much cooler day. It was mid-90 weather and the AC was welcome.
I'd like to try the Freeport location to compare. They are always packed and always seem to have something going on. It was nice to check it off, but it's no place I feel compelled to visit again.
Sep 02, 2015We were seated at a communal table that was located in a room away from the main bar area. Nice enough seating and the community feel was cool (without the brew bus gang). Our server was very pleasant and well-informed. The menu was a little confusing about what constituted a flight, but the waitress explained it clearly. Not much to question on the menu - it is pub grub.
There were nine beers in the flight, two duplicates on cask which was a nice way to compare and contrast those beers. The beer was mostly OK, but I though the stout was awful. The food was very good - nicely prepared fish sandwich and my wife said the fish tacos were tasty as well. Good onion rings.
More than the vibe (which to me includes the people) the place does have a nice ambience from all the brick - it's a pretty cool building and the downstairs/outside seating would have been nice on a much cooler day. It was mid-90 weather and the AC was welcome.
I'd like to try the Freeport location to compare. They are always packed and always seem to have something going on. It was nice to check it off, but it's no place I feel compelled to visit again.
Reviewed by mynie from Maryland
2.99/5 rDev -21.1%
vibe: 2.5 | quality: 2.75 | service: 3.5 | selection: 3
2.99/5 rDev -21.1%
vibe: 2.5 | quality: 2.75 | service: 3.5 | selection: 3
I don't know how long they've been open, but Gritty's feels like a very, very oldschool brewpub. The beers are all English-style, served only slightly colder than room temperature, and the quality varies from "okay" to "the first batch of homebrew someone didn't fuck up entirely."
We stopped by around 11 PM on a Saturday. Everyone was friendly but the place was packed and very loud. There's some minor aesthetic signals toward Englishness, but the vibe was much closer to an American sports bar than a faux-English/Irish pub. That's fine if that's your thing--there were lots of early twenties kids there trying to mate with one another. But it's not my thing.
So, not really a great vibe, and not really great beer. Nothing about the place was horrid, but it doesn't really qualify as a beer geek destination in 2015.
Aug 17, 2015We stopped by around 11 PM on a Saturday. Everyone was friendly but the place was packed and very loud. There's some minor aesthetic signals toward Englishness, but the vibe was much closer to an American sports bar than a faux-English/Irish pub. That's fine if that's your thing--there were lots of early twenties kids there trying to mate with one another. But it's not my thing.
So, not really a great vibe, and not really great beer. Nothing about the place was horrid, but it doesn't really qualify as a beer geek destination in 2015.
Reviewed by KLHBB from Arkansas
3.94/5 rDev +4%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 3.25 | service: 5 | selection: 3.75 | food: 3
3.94/5 rDev +4%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 3.25 | service: 5 | selection: 3.75 | food: 3
Fun place, great service. Quiet when I was there, but I can imagine this as a party place. Informal, old world pirate vibe. Beer and food are good enough, but the strength is in the brick and wood charm.
May 08, 2015
Gritty McDuff's Brewing Company in Portland, ME
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3.6 out of
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2053 ratings
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