OpenRoad Brewery

This is another recently opened brewery that came on my radar for a visit to try their beers. The place is located in the main downtown area in a storefront setting along with The Daily Brews coffee cafe. The interior has a long L-shaped bear that seats about 15 people, and there are about a dozen tables/chairs. The coffee machine is behind the bar, so coffee drinkers mix with beer drinkers here. A couple TVs hang from the walls, and several sections of the walls are lined with clear glass mugs, presumably owned by mug club members.

We ordered a sampler flight of 6 of the 10 beers that were on tap. (There is also some ciders brewed from another source.) Sometimes a brewery opens its doors too early before they have their recipes dialed in to the equipment, and the beers must illustrate that point. They are fairly close to style, but one seemed weak, one was overbalanced on the hops, and one (the Belgian Dubbel) just had some sort of problem that I could not identify. Strangely, the Belgian Tripel was the best beer of the bunch, and we scored it at a B-minus grade. Overall, the beers were graded at 3.25.

There is a light food menu that is offered here but we did not order anything. Overall, I'm going to wait a while before making a return trip here, and I hope the beer recipes will have been tweaked so that I can write an updated review and change my rating for this brewery.