Beermann's Beerwerks
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Reviewed by warmstorage from California
2.35/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 1 | service: 3 | selection: 3 | food: 2
2.35/5 rDev 0%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 1 | service: 3 | selection: 3 | food: 2
Yesterday, the Good Senator and I did a little central California brewpub roadtrip. Starting at Beermann's, we had high hopes: they were dashed, on the rocks.
Location: in a historic, pleasant, kitschy retail street just off of Rouet 65, Lincoln's main drag. Located a 45-60 minute drive from downtown Sacramento, without traffic.
Atmosphere: Very, very kitsch: old-California style saloon, with a dozen or so booths right off the kitchen and prep area, a separate bar area with tables, and (apparently) an additional dining area. A wood-fired pizza oven left open made it quite cozy with the rain beating down outside. There is apparently a working butcher shop/meat market upstairs. It smelled, pretty bad, near the stairwell. Entrance to the restrooms has swinging, Old West style saloon doors. Bar area was loud and boisterous, with most patrons appearing to drink the lager and/or hefe while LOUDLY playing dice on the bar.
Service: fine, pleasant, attentive, and fairly unknowledgeable about the beer. Most of the staff seemed to be having a Jessica Simpson lookalike contest, with cakey, hideous, black-eye style makeup, and scary-tight white dress shirts over their frighteningly thin bodies.
Food: was a big disappointment. The boring, Gardenburger-style veggie burger ($7.95) was on promising, thick, cibatta style bread that was bland and dry. The wood-oven roasted veggie sandwich was reasonably tasty, and an appropriate portion size for a first grader. The succotash was bland and uninspired. The fries were easily the best part of the meal, despite being clearly out of a freezer bag. Prices were fine, $7.95 to $11 mostly, but I'd never bother giving them money for food again.
Selection of beer: decent, but not amazing. Eight standards, but one was off (Honey Brew), and another was a light lager. One speciality: a "triple IPA". An "everything" sampler is $9.00, but would only have included eight beers, while four of our choice was $5.00, and we had to drive another 150 miles yesterday.
Quality: pretty poor. Our $5 taster came out in mini-snifters, filled barely to the middle of the bell of the glass, so probably about three ounces each. Our choices were the IPA (6.5%), the Rip Roarin' Red (6.2%), the Industrial Stout (5.5%), and the seasonal "Triple IPA."
Rip Roarin' Red: couldn't have ripped a paper towel. It was darkish ruby, minimal aroma, started with chocolate and wood notes, had a clean, thin finish with more notes of chocolate, and finished with a slightly sour, almost off taste. Would never bother again.
Industrial Stout: this was a robust/strong-ish style stout (export?), the best of the bunch. Dark, with a pronounced light-almond colored, creamy head. Full of roasty, dark, and bittersweet chocolate flavors, without being particularly sweet. Tasty, with very slight hints of metal/aluminum on the finish, but not unpleasant. I'd drink it again.
IPA: what a damn disappointment. Thin, light copper colored, with no noticable aroma, high carbonation, starts bright and strong tasting, but with minimal hop presence. My tastign notes include: "sucks: boring, finishes thin [and] corn/thin grain finish". Just... bad.
"Triple IPA": was an even larger disappointment, since it was slightly darker, a medium copper, but otherwise almost indistinguishable from the IPA. Minimal aroma, flirts with a floral start and body, but strong malt and metallic aftertaste, finishes like a cheap adjunct/thin grain lager, just like its lesser cousin. An embarrassment to the style.
Summary: Pleasant, historical-type dining room, but average to moderate prices, small, boring sandwiches, and terrible beer. I would never bother with this place again, and certainly wouldn't go out of my way. Since there is little other reason to find one's self in Lincoln, I'll probably never bother again. (I'm not even sure I'd bother with the drive if the beer was $1 a pint, which really says something about it.)
Mar 21, 2005Location: in a historic, pleasant, kitschy retail street just off of Rouet 65, Lincoln's main drag. Located a 45-60 minute drive from downtown Sacramento, without traffic.
Atmosphere: Very, very kitsch: old-California style saloon, with a dozen or so booths right off the kitchen and prep area, a separate bar area with tables, and (apparently) an additional dining area. A wood-fired pizza oven left open made it quite cozy with the rain beating down outside. There is apparently a working butcher shop/meat market upstairs. It smelled, pretty bad, near the stairwell. Entrance to the restrooms has swinging, Old West style saloon doors. Bar area was loud and boisterous, with most patrons appearing to drink the lager and/or hefe while LOUDLY playing dice on the bar.
Service: fine, pleasant, attentive, and fairly unknowledgeable about the beer. Most of the staff seemed to be having a Jessica Simpson lookalike contest, with cakey, hideous, black-eye style makeup, and scary-tight white dress shirts over their frighteningly thin bodies.
Food: was a big disappointment. The boring, Gardenburger-style veggie burger ($7.95) was on promising, thick, cibatta style bread that was bland and dry. The wood-oven roasted veggie sandwich was reasonably tasty, and an appropriate portion size for a first grader. The succotash was bland and uninspired. The fries were easily the best part of the meal, despite being clearly out of a freezer bag. Prices were fine, $7.95 to $11 mostly, but I'd never bother giving them money for food again.
Selection of beer: decent, but not amazing. Eight standards, but one was off (Honey Brew), and another was a light lager. One speciality: a "triple IPA". An "everything" sampler is $9.00, but would only have included eight beers, while four of our choice was $5.00, and we had to drive another 150 miles yesterday.
Quality: pretty poor. Our $5 taster came out in mini-snifters, filled barely to the middle of the bell of the glass, so probably about three ounces each. Our choices were the IPA (6.5%), the Rip Roarin' Red (6.2%), the Industrial Stout (5.5%), and the seasonal "Triple IPA."
Rip Roarin' Red: couldn't have ripped a paper towel. It was darkish ruby, minimal aroma, started with chocolate and wood notes, had a clean, thin finish with more notes of chocolate, and finished with a slightly sour, almost off taste. Would never bother again.
Industrial Stout: this was a robust/strong-ish style stout (export?), the best of the bunch. Dark, with a pronounced light-almond colored, creamy head. Full of roasty, dark, and bittersweet chocolate flavors, without being particularly sweet. Tasty, with very slight hints of metal/aluminum on the finish, but not unpleasant. I'd drink it again.
IPA: what a damn disappointment. Thin, light copper colored, with no noticable aroma, high carbonation, starts bright and strong tasting, but with minimal hop presence. My tastign notes include: "sucks: boring, finishes thin [and] corn/thin grain finish". Just... bad.
"Triple IPA": was an even larger disappointment, since it was slightly darker, a medium copper, but otherwise almost indistinguishable from the IPA. Minimal aroma, flirts with a floral start and body, but strong malt and metallic aftertaste, finishes like a cheap adjunct/thin grain lager, just like its lesser cousin. An embarrassment to the style.
Summary: Pleasant, historical-type dining room, but average to moderate prices, small, boring sandwiches, and terrible beer. I would never bother with this place again, and certainly wouldn't go out of my way. Since there is little other reason to find one's self in Lincoln, I'll probably never bother again. (I'm not even sure I'd bother with the drive if the beer was $1 a pint, which really says something about it.)
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