Upper Mississippi Brewing
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Reviewed by mynie from Maryland
2.8/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3 | service: 2.5 | selection: 2.5 | food: 2.5
2.8/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3 | service: 2.5 | selection: 2.5 | food: 2.5
Ahh, my old hometown of Clinton, Iowa, a city that is anything but a bastion of fine dining. As a matter of fact, the last I checked the race for “fanciest” restaurant in town was between an Applebees and a some local Italian place where I once saw a rat run across the floor.
Clinton is a dirty factory town. Only most of the factories have closed down and so everyone is very poor. The factories that remain are all very smelly and cast such an odor over the entire city that no business owner in their right mind would ever want to put up shop. There’s a dogfood factory that smells like dogfood, then there’s a corn processing plant that smells like burning grain, and then there’s a byproducts plant that smells like burning corpses, all within three miles of each other, all close to the commerce districts, all stinking to high heaven.
So what happens when your city is one in which the citizens do not have money to eat out and the restaurant owners do not want to build restaurants? You don’t get very many places to eat, that’s what. And what you do get you don’t expect very much from.
So it was with no small amount of trepidation that I mounted the steps to local Brew Pub. And I must say that I was pleasantly surprised.
Nothing about this place was exceptional, at least not as far as most brewpubs go. It was all just decent—some of it even nice. The place was very nicely decorated, not too busy, and pretty quiet. No horrible music blasting, all the TVs were located in the bar. The building that this place uses has to be at least a hundred years old, and the owners of this place take full advantage of the aged appeal.
The beer selection was paltry. There was a lager (named “lager”) a raspberry weisen (named “raspberry”), and an amber (named “amber.”) The lager tasted like water but the Amber was actually pretty good. The food selection was great, though, the menu was huge. Only the food really wasn’t that good…
This place is more a restaurant than a brew pub, and it’s not a very good restaurant at that. If for some ungodly reason you find yourself in the hellhole that is Clinton and you’re looking for a nice-looking bar to go to, this is the place. Otherwise, steer clear.
Sep 23, 2004Clinton is a dirty factory town. Only most of the factories have closed down and so everyone is very poor. The factories that remain are all very smelly and cast such an odor over the entire city that no business owner in their right mind would ever want to put up shop. There’s a dogfood factory that smells like dogfood, then there’s a corn processing plant that smells like burning grain, and then there’s a byproducts plant that smells like burning corpses, all within three miles of each other, all close to the commerce districts, all stinking to high heaven.
So what happens when your city is one in which the citizens do not have money to eat out and the restaurant owners do not want to build restaurants? You don’t get very many places to eat, that’s what. And what you do get you don’t expect very much from.
So it was with no small amount of trepidation that I mounted the steps to local Brew Pub. And I must say that I was pleasantly surprised.
Nothing about this place was exceptional, at least not as far as most brewpubs go. It was all just decent—some of it even nice. The place was very nicely decorated, not too busy, and pretty quiet. No horrible music blasting, all the TVs were located in the bar. The building that this place uses has to be at least a hundred years old, and the owners of this place take full advantage of the aged appeal.
The beer selection was paltry. There was a lager (named “lager”) a raspberry weisen (named “raspberry”), and an amber (named “amber.”) The lager tasted like water but the Amber was actually pretty good. The food selection was great, though, the menu was huge. Only the food really wasn’t that good…
This place is more a restaurant than a brew pub, and it’s not a very good restaurant at that. If for some ungodly reason you find yourself in the hellhole that is Clinton and you’re looking for a nice-looking bar to go to, this is the place. Otherwise, steer clear.
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