Climate City Brewing Co.

Visited here on a Friday night, small but lively crowd. Friendly brewer invited us back to the Brewhouse to show us around and offer some pours straight from the tank. Small menu available. Interesting interior included some performance space. Beers were all good too.

21st stop on the Unending 2017 Great West Coast Beer Walkabout. 2 pm, Wednesday.

80°F! Quite the change from Portland. I had to sit outside. Almost no customers this time of day. Direct view into the brewhoise with a couple of employees actively involved in the process. The air is redolent with fermenting malt.

Thirteen house beers available. I got the flight of six, Hot Shot Helles, Citrodora, Raptor Creek Fresh Hop IPA, Savage IPA, Powerhouse 100 Double IPA and Bigfoot Bourbon Porter. Helles was the best, though even more smokiness would be good. Had the house chili, pretty tasty despite the green bell peppers in it.

Puppies allowed outside on the patio. A dozen or so board games available, as well as giant Jenga and cornhole (I hope they call it something different out here).

 

 

EDIT: Visited this brewery again on 11/15/18. The beers are significantly better, thus a revision of the Quality rating from 3.5 to 4.0 is being made along with a bump to the Selection score. Old rating was 3.74. New number is 3.95.
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This was stop #2 on a pub crawl through parts of Oregon while my wife and I were on vacation. We stopped here for dinner and to enjoy the beers. This is an old brick building that is located on the far edge of the downtown area. A large parking lot is at the rear of the building along with the entrance that most people use. A beer garden is off to one side of the building and under a large tree, and I think this is the nicest-looking beer garden that I've ever seen. Unfortunately it was chilly that evening, so we chose to sit indoors.

There were only 7 beers on tap so we ordered a sampler flight of all of them. All of the beers are brewed right to style, but not much in the way of being very exciting. We graded most of them at a C+ level, but notable were the Yellow Belly Blonde and the Octoberfest Lager. Both were given a B- score.

The food here is a bit better than the beers if our dinners were any indication of the overall food quality. It was a good-sized menu, so there is something for everyone here. The beers are good enough so that I'd really like to come back here during the warm season to sit in that beer garden and enjoy this place some more.

Climate City has a nice atmosphere, good food, friendly staff, and great Brew. Highly recommended!