Ice Breakers Restaurant & Brewery
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Reviewed by GreenCard from France
2.6/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 4 | quality: 1.5 | service: 3 | selection: 3 | food: 2.5
2.6/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 4 | quality: 1.5 | service: 3 | selection: 3 | food: 2.5
Despite the cheesy name and sports-bar exterior, upon heading inside I found a nice, warm atmosphere... looks promising. Nice low-key lighting and wood tones. The beers are listed in chalk on a big board on the left wall as you enter. High cielings with an upper level for private parties. Our waiter was personable, friendly, and boisterous. Their fries are great. My girlfriend (who is not a beer drinker) was happy about the small hard liquor menu of which she ordered a reasonably good Prickly Pear margarita. Those are the good points (I'm afraid the rest are bad).
Their attention to detail is lacking some effort. Spelling errors and typos abound on the menu and the beer chart that comes with the sampler. A direct quote: "One of oue most renoun beers".
The food is adequately satisfying, but nothing to make you want to "slap your mamma" and certainly not enough to entice another visit. A specific example, the 1000 island dressing on my girlfriend's ruben was "the blandest, palest 1000 island I've ever tried".
Last and certainly least, is the beer (made me want to go "slap the brewer"). I ordered a sampler of everything on their taps (a total of 9). I tasted them going from light (and boy was it light) to dark (and boy was that light, too). It made me wonder if they had watered them down from the tap or on the way to the serving tanks. Every single beer was lackluster, lackflavor, and thin. Every beer was carbonated at the same level. The head retention was poor. Even my girlfriend thought they were watery and, like I said, she doesn't even like beer. Their IPA was more like a pale ale and didn't even make her prune up like she usually does when I make her try them. The Bavarian wheat didn't really exhibit any of the characteristics that you'd expect and was also contaminated by their root beer somehow. The Scotch Ale was a diacetyl bomb.
I am VERY disappointed with their beer. Ice Breakers typifies the "brewpubs" that gave brewpubs a bad reputation. Having tasted each beer they had on tap, I feel secure in saying that no self-respecting beer lover need ever set foot in this establishment. I took the liberty of grading the beers by a five point system (five being the highest):
IB Lite 3.5% abv: 0.5
IB Pilsner 4.5%: 1.0
Apricot Honey Wheat 5.5%: 1.0
Bavarian Wheat 5.0%: 0.5
Desert Steam 5.0%: 1.0
IB IPA 6.5%: 1.0
Scotch Ale 8.0%: 1.0
IB Honey Brown 7.0%: 1.0
Espresso Porter 6.0%: 2.0
Mar 18, 2003Their attention to detail is lacking some effort. Spelling errors and typos abound on the menu and the beer chart that comes with the sampler. A direct quote: "One of oue most renoun beers".
The food is adequately satisfying, but nothing to make you want to "slap your mamma" and certainly not enough to entice another visit. A specific example, the 1000 island dressing on my girlfriend's ruben was "the blandest, palest 1000 island I've ever tried".
Last and certainly least, is the beer (made me want to go "slap the brewer"). I ordered a sampler of everything on their taps (a total of 9). I tasted them going from light (and boy was it light) to dark (and boy was that light, too). It made me wonder if they had watered them down from the tap or on the way to the serving tanks. Every single beer was lackluster, lackflavor, and thin. Every beer was carbonated at the same level. The head retention was poor. Even my girlfriend thought they were watery and, like I said, she doesn't even like beer. Their IPA was more like a pale ale and didn't even make her prune up like she usually does when I make her try them. The Bavarian wheat didn't really exhibit any of the characteristics that you'd expect and was also contaminated by their root beer somehow. The Scotch Ale was a diacetyl bomb.
I am VERY disappointed with their beer. Ice Breakers typifies the "brewpubs" that gave brewpubs a bad reputation. Having tasted each beer they had on tap, I feel secure in saying that no self-respecting beer lover need ever set foot in this establishment. I took the liberty of grading the beers by a five point system (five being the highest):
IB Lite 3.5% abv: 0.5
IB Pilsner 4.5%: 1.0
Apricot Honey Wheat 5.5%: 1.0
Bavarian Wheat 5.0%: 0.5
Desert Steam 5.0%: 1.0
IB IPA 6.5%: 1.0
Scotch Ale 8.0%: 1.0
IB Honey Brown 7.0%: 1.0
Espresso Porter 6.0%: 2.0
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