Under The Radar Brewery

I visited Under the Radar a few weeks ago while exploring Houston. It’s a cool brewery with the production facility in the building and most of the taproom area outdoors on the spacious patio (though much of that is under cover). It’s a very back-garden kind of vibe, and I really liked it; in fact, the whole place seems very DIY. Also, when I was there, they were playing Rush — zero complaints there!

On my visit they had 13 beers on tap, plus one can pour, with an interesting style mix: plenty of IPAs of various description, plus two porters (one spiced for the holidays), BA Scotch ale, Kölsch, märzen, two hefeweizens (one with raspberry), strawberry blonde, and two Pilsners (one with passionfruit). So, a lot of fruit stuff, aside a handful of more traditional styles. The beer quality was not bad, although it seemed to vary a bit from beer to beer.

Service was really friendly, and I’d definitely see myself visiting Under the Radar again if I happened to find myself in Houston.

 

A casual spot, as most breweries are. Pretty much all outdoors, with picnic tables and lots of pub games. Like bags, even a little mini put put area. There are now plenty of TV's (I think when they first opened they had not installed these yet). I'm assuming the guy taking orders at the counter bar was either owner or brewer, maybe both...he is very friendly and personable. Selection on my visits have always been very sparse. They were out of a handful of beers on the menu on my last visit. Overall though, I have never been the biggest fan of their beers. IPA is OK the Bock is just really sweet for my tastes, without any other malt characteristic. Nothing particular bad at all, just not really to my tastes. So, a nice spot to visit, and might be more to other peoples tastes than mine. Which is fine, I'm sure I'll be back but not among the breweries I usually visit.

 

 

 

This is a really low key brewery. They offer a $10 flight that allows you to try their 5 available brewskis. Under the Radar is a great name, they are in a relatively dense area of H-Town but the street is quiet and the music chill. Wooden benches and two little food trucks on the side of the property. Really kind owner who offered me one on the house just for helping him remove some TV covers out in the patio area. Small brewhouse connected to the little tap room. Easy to make a payment on a cool little touch screen. Nice place to get away and enjoy some homebrewed beers in Houston. Will be back one day. Gonna take a $5 glass with me!