Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant

The establishment is large, the food was good, and the beer was decent / marginal, it's a brewery chain. The upside is there's something for the entire family on the menu which makes it great, but not really a place I'd call a "beer nerd" kinda place. Happy to have visited (once).

I've been here a few times on vacations to the Delaware beaches. It's a big sort of cavernous restaurant in a busy area along highway 1 near Rehoboth beach. Still it's nice inside. The beers I've had have all been good. Service has been fine, we always have a big group and we had a novice waitress who messed some things up but made it right quickly- so can't really fault her or the place too much. The selection is really nice each time with a variety of styles- Belgians, Imperial stout, Porter, etc. The food is good, a real favorite among the girls in the group and so we end up here once each vacation.

Close by the busy shopping outlets that proliferate in the area but still near enough to the beach to make it accessible. Once inside, there is a large comfortable dining area to kick back in as well as the open bar area. Relaxing atmosphere from the lighting to the music. Service was friendly though a bit slow on this late afternoon, midweek visit. Food menu did not stray too far from the basics expected at a pub. Prices are a reminder that you are in a resort area. What we got was well prepared and tasty.

Beers showed some diversity among the 16-17 taps. In addition to the ever present IPAs, there were a couple of farmhouse styles, a Belgian Tripel, a porter, a pils and a dunkel that I can recall, in addition to a few others. The selections I tried were good to very good (the pils and one of the farmhouses).

There are a few good brewery choices in or near Rehoboth (not the least of which is Dogfish), and Iron Hill ranks right up there with them.

Draft beer was pretty solid but then others that were canned 3-4 month old ipas were just old and malty

 

 

 

Just opened this summer, so stopped in on a rainy day at the beach (for lunch and dinner). The place was packed for both lunch and dinner. The beers were above average, with some very good beers (they also had cocktails, including a cocktail flight, which I did not try). The food overall had very generous portions (couple next to us came to eat, not to drink beer), and was better than the average brewpub.