Here & Now Brewing Company
645 Main Street
Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 18431
United States
(570) 253-0700 | map
hereandnowbrewing.com
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Reviewed by slander from New York
4.13/5 rDev -0.5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.25 | selection: 3.75 | food: 4.25
4.13/5 rDev -0.5%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.25 | selection: 3.75 | food: 4.25
Yep. Left the lake and bailed on the fam for an excursion in beer. Again. I’m a terrible child. Halfway to Hawley and hooked a sharp right turn up the long ridge road to 6 in the Here & Now. In Honesdale. In Pennsylvania. On the main drag. Quarter an hour meter fed and in…
A storefront single deep room for the most part. Big brick walls with distressed concrete patches some of which is all muraled up, and marbled to the rear with a kitchen window and a special’s board to the left. Ooooooooooold plank floors, and a white pressed tin ceiling & crown molding. Ductwork down center, drop black hairdryer lamps in 2 rows, drop alt height baby lights tracing the bar, spots over the barback & the ‘on tap’ list, and strung egg lights across the room. Disco ball and growlers dangling.
The bar, well, it’s shaped like a backwards question mark, wait, no, not quite. It’s something else, wait, I’ll get it, okay, I know, I know, it’s like the Greek letter Omega with a hook on one end. Can’t see it in your head? Think of a straight bar with a jut they can step into that serves 5 sides of an octagon around. Phat wood plank topped with a vertical & horizontal slat wood base, and seating for 15 on wood chairs.
Barback is dark wood shelving on brick to both sides of a framed center space with a 12 tap, carved pieces & things handled stainless tower, fronting a large seemingly 3D copper logo piece backlit red. Shelved glassware to both sides below growls, books, plants, animal carvings, skulls, an old camera, jars o’ stuff, a sea shell, day of the dead painted skull, a pair of bongos, figurines, a status, bric-a-brac, you know, the uge. And cupboard space below.
A dozen tables about the room; hightop & low, round, rect, & squared. Roll up & human doors to the slight deck out front with a few more tables outside decked and sidewalked below. There’s also a small private room off to the side and around the bend. I found it while on walkabout. Deer head mounted over an old safe over there (me, pointing), and a can cooler cornered up front, this being PA and all.
I perused the printed list (beer, style, ABV, and pricing for 3oz, 8oz, & 16oz pours, and 32oz & 64oz growl fills) and found there to be just 4 beers up. Did I mention this was during pandemic times a while back? So, yes, 4 beers (Gang Green, single hop/malt hazy IPA, 7%; Trademarks, Cream Ale, 5.5%; Bat Patterns, Porter, 6.8%; Secret Epicenter, Pale Ale, 6.2%), and then a shandy made from your beer of choice + lemonade, and 8 canned selections.
Bat Patterns, Porter was quite nice, good roast, some chocolate; Gang Green, hazy IPA, was pleasant, and not real Hazy, which was just fine with me; and the Trademarks, Cream Ale, was an Absolute WIN. Very nice beer. You know what? I’m getting a can of the Scutters, Black IPA, 6.2%, pine, nice roast, it’s got some licorice to it, I like, you know I like that, you do. Solid beers, though I would like to have taken the place in with a larger tap list.
And food, because try as I do, I can’t live on just Pico. They do mostly pizzas, but then not pizzas, too. Wings, please; I went Lindy, which were done up seasoned salt with a BBQ drizzle & Ranch, and then pleasantly found that the Ranch came on the side, as it should, so it can be ignored. Wings was goods.
Was talking with some nice kids from somewhere not here, and then offered a tour by owner Allaina, unsolicited (thank you). 7 barrel system out back and cold room below. Friendly folks, tasty food, solid beers, and good tunes. I like it here. If you need to escape a family vacay on a nearby lake for a few hours, I recommend doing it here. This was time well spent.
Mar 08, 2023A storefront single deep room for the most part. Big brick walls with distressed concrete patches some of which is all muraled up, and marbled to the rear with a kitchen window and a special’s board to the left. Ooooooooooold plank floors, and a white pressed tin ceiling & crown molding. Ductwork down center, drop black hairdryer lamps in 2 rows, drop alt height baby lights tracing the bar, spots over the barback & the ‘on tap’ list, and strung egg lights across the room. Disco ball and growlers dangling.
The bar, well, it’s shaped like a backwards question mark, wait, no, not quite. It’s something else, wait, I’ll get it, okay, I know, I know, it’s like the Greek letter Omega with a hook on one end. Can’t see it in your head? Think of a straight bar with a jut they can step into that serves 5 sides of an octagon around. Phat wood plank topped with a vertical & horizontal slat wood base, and seating for 15 on wood chairs.
Barback is dark wood shelving on brick to both sides of a framed center space with a 12 tap, carved pieces & things handled stainless tower, fronting a large seemingly 3D copper logo piece backlit red. Shelved glassware to both sides below growls, books, plants, animal carvings, skulls, an old camera, jars o’ stuff, a sea shell, day of the dead painted skull, a pair of bongos, figurines, a status, bric-a-brac, you know, the uge. And cupboard space below.
A dozen tables about the room; hightop & low, round, rect, & squared. Roll up & human doors to the slight deck out front with a few more tables outside decked and sidewalked below. There’s also a small private room off to the side and around the bend. I found it while on walkabout. Deer head mounted over an old safe over there (me, pointing), and a can cooler cornered up front, this being PA and all.
I perused the printed list (beer, style, ABV, and pricing for 3oz, 8oz, & 16oz pours, and 32oz & 64oz growl fills) and found there to be just 4 beers up. Did I mention this was during pandemic times a while back? So, yes, 4 beers (Gang Green, single hop/malt hazy IPA, 7%; Trademarks, Cream Ale, 5.5%; Bat Patterns, Porter, 6.8%; Secret Epicenter, Pale Ale, 6.2%), and then a shandy made from your beer of choice + lemonade, and 8 canned selections.
Bat Patterns, Porter was quite nice, good roast, some chocolate; Gang Green, hazy IPA, was pleasant, and not real Hazy, which was just fine with me; and the Trademarks, Cream Ale, was an Absolute WIN. Very nice beer. You know what? I’m getting a can of the Scutters, Black IPA, 6.2%, pine, nice roast, it’s got some licorice to it, I like, you know I like that, you do. Solid beers, though I would like to have taken the place in with a larger tap list.
And food, because try as I do, I can’t live on just Pico. They do mostly pizzas, but then not pizzas, too. Wings, please; I went Lindy, which were done up seasoned salt with a BBQ drizzle & Ranch, and then pleasantly found that the Ranch came on the side, as it should, so it can be ignored. Wings was goods.
Was talking with some nice kids from somewhere not here, and then offered a tour by owner Allaina, unsolicited (thank you). 7 barrel system out back and cold room below. Friendly folks, tasty food, solid beers, and good tunes. I like it here. If you need to escape a family vacay on a nearby lake for a few hours, I recommend doing it here. This was time well spent.
Reviewed by Drinky_Time from Massachusetts
4.13/5 rDev -0.5%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.25 | selection: 3.75 | food: 4.5
4.13/5 rDev -0.5%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.25 | selection: 3.75 | food: 4.5
Nice place with duck fat pop corn served with the beer! Brews are good and food even better. Good service and vibe. I also enjoy how they have fitted out the place with reclaimed materials. Definitely going back soon.
Sep 26, 2019
Reviewed by DumbAzzGuard from Pennsylvania
4.15/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.25 | selection: 3.75 | food: 4.5
4.15/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.25 | selection: 3.75 | food: 4.5
One of the best selections of beers in any brew pub in my area. We drive over an hour to get there. The service is world class and the food (mainly pizza) yes I said pizza, is some of the best I have ever had. Homemade sausage and goat cheese. Locally sourced ingredients and killer wings. Homemade pretzels. Great deserts, this place has something for most everyone.
The vibe is comfortable with all ages welcome to stop in and get a bite. The chef does an outstanding job. The staff is knowledgeable and on top of their game. One of the owners spent 20 minutes talking beer with my wife and I the last time we were there. Absolutely love this place.
Feb 28, 2019The vibe is comfortable with all ages welcome to stop in and get a bite. The chef does an outstanding job. The staff is knowledgeable and on top of their game. One of the owners spent 20 minutes talking beer with my wife and I the last time we were there. Absolutely love this place.
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