Missing Mountain Brewing Company

Nice place to hang outside along the the riverbank patio.

 

Cool vibe, friendly servers plenty of selection (10 taps of all their own beers) I like this place and will definitely be back. Not a lot of seats at the bar but plenty of tables. Food was good. Beer selection was great. Talked to one of the brewers while I was at the bar. I LOVE it when a bar is still small enough that that happens.

 

 

Dabbling in newer trends while also doing well with established styles, the beer here is pretty good. Most brews have a nice soft, round body and are quite drinkable and flavorful. They even sometimes have a few guest drafts. The food is okay, but it's mainly sandwiches and wraps, though they do have a smoker that's occasionally offering the meats in limited quantities.

Unfortunately, the design is terribly short-sighted for this highly-trafficked, easily accessible part of town, and the parking lot is much smaller than it first appears. The interior is very small, while the exterior patio is quite large. This is great for the 3-4 months of decent weather we MIGHT get in NEO, but they better have plans for somehow enclosing that larger exterior during the Winter months, because as it is right now, it doesn't seem they do.

They obviously put a lot of thought into the aesthetic, which is like a modern, fancy sort of mountain retreat, but some aspects are highly questionable for such a new place. Gender specific single person bathroom doors are the first thing you're met with when you enter, next to a chained off "Employees-Only" upward staircase. From this odd introduction, without signage, you must choose to walk left or right. If it's your first time here, it's very confusing because everything is couched behind and beside the jutting buildout the bathroom and stairway creates.

You can order full pours, food, 5 ounce pours and flights at the bar on the right, and only full pours at a small tap station outside to the left during busier days. At the bar, which has a surprisingly large amount of taps for such a small seating area, you have to stand in line at the right edge, which is also the employee entrance into the bar. Not everyone knows this and it also doesn't work well as it spills into the communal seating area after only 2 or 3 people get in line.

Obviously, this means there's no service currently, but with the poor floor plan funneling everyone through such a tiny space, they should simply nix the line idea and begin service. Employees are running all over no matter what, and it gets real cramped in the area you're supposed to order drafts at. Not having A/C in the dead of a 95° week didn't help make this any more pleasant, but they seem to have remedied that particular aspect since.

Even though everything seems pretty solidly built and set up with a vision, I suspect they will still find a way to make it work more smoothly, and in time it will be a worthwhile place to enjoy a pint. As for now, I'll limit my visits to the off-est of off-days.

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I look forward to amending and all out deleting much of this review once these early growing pains and unique quirks shake out. Unfortunately the ordering situation is exactly the same mid-2019, and they're stubbornly refusing table service even despite how spread out the seating areas are, on top of the fact they have people constantly available to bus tables. The situation at the bar is very uncomfortable, both to order at, and to sit. I simply refuse to sit at the bar, at all. Frankly it shouldn't even have seats set up Thurs-Sun.

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It's 2026. We've gone through all manner of unmentionables since my previous reviews.

The bar situation has been remedied. The stools have been eliminated entirely, turning the counter into a multiple POS walk up from end to end.

The outdoor area has been built out in multiple stages on multiple levels, impressively so, including some enclosed space adjacent to the physical building complete with heaters for the ~8 months of cold, cloudy misery we know and "love" here in grey NEO. Under certain circumstances they offer limited table service for the many tables out there.

That having been said, most visits remain a chore. The hospitality continues to be standoffish at best. At worst, combative. It's weird, because places like Magic City made it a tongue in cheek schtick of theirs, but here it seems to be their true North, which is odd for the Akron area, eternally, though often artificially "Midwest Nice." I guess in that way it's sort of refreshing, but it seems like their culture isn't the healthiest, or perhaps the customer base in the Falls is just the right level of Karen to pull this mood out of the staff, unless the POS stations still piss everyone off.

Their admitted forte continues to be well made hazies in particular, though CLAG has solidly become the preeminent haze producer in the state.

However, their food remains meh at best. There are few surviving breweries in the Akron area, so the options are limited, but almost all of those who serve food have much better options. It just always seems half-assed here. With so many other restaurant options nearby, you're better off eating before or after getting a pint or two here.

My prior overall was 3.6. It is what it is. I still prefer to be here solely when it's less busy, and warm. Drinking for the river view during low foot traffic is peak MMBC.