Conshohocken Brewing Company - Bridgeport Brewpub

 

 

 

Conshohocken Brewing Company's new Bridgeport location shows that they know what they're doing. There are basically 4 sections to it. There's the beautifully restored old building that has two floors. The downstairs offers a bar and a good amount of seating for dining while the upstairs has more of just a bar character (of course you can still eat there if you'd like). Then there's also a small patio area right outside for dining when the weather is nice. The pièce de résistance, however, is the very chill, relaxed beer garden-like area along overlooking the Schuylkill river. It's completely separate from the rest of the operation in many ways (one of which is the large parking lot); and really unique in the area - the perfect place to hang out after work when the weather's good.

Moving back inside, they brew special beers on their 3 BBL system while filling out the remainder of their 14 taps with standard beers from the brewery. That gives you a pretty wide selection to choose from. (Note: there are only 6 taps in the beer garden truck).

The food is basic but good, and standardly priced: Caesar salad ($8), nachos ($8 + $2 for each add-on), tacos (2 for $10-$14 depending), portobello mushroom sandwich ($10), cheeseburger ($13), steak frites ($18).

Overall I really enjoy it and I have no doubt that they'll be very successful.

 

Nice looking place with a decent size bar, almost too full to get a seat the day I was there. They've got a good assortment of beers on tap, with some cans you can purchase to take home. The food menu looked good but wasn't hungry at the moment. The service was good.

 

Sat at the main bar on a Saturday with my girlfriend.

Standard industrial chic that you've seen in a million breweries/brewpubs. Large area, but we didn't get the see the upstairs. The large window looking into the equipment was cool.

Pushy and borderline rude bartender. Asked us within 30 seconds of handing us the menus what we wanted to drink. She spilled my beer everywhere on two occasions because she was in such a hurry to slam it down and walk away. Just an overall condescending attitude.

Decent selection of beers. Several English styles that you rarely see, coupled with American staples and a few exclusive scratch beers. Beers themselves were hit or miss. I probably had 8-10 different ones during my visit and half were good/great and the other half OK/poor.

Low food score is not based on the quality of the food itself, but because the two of us both became ill shortly after leaving the brewpub.