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They just announced they are shortening their hours this week to work on ironing out some of the kinks. Most of the complaints I have heard relate to poor service and beer prices being out of whack. Hopefully they will address both.
According to what I've read on Twitter they do plan on changing pricing and getting service up to speed. Though the service will be better when the initial rush dies off. Evidently people were lined up down the block Saturday to get in.
Or maybe there is room for another similar place around here.
Friday night at like 9pm there was also a line of like 30 people to get in. We went around 530, had a couple drinks then went to dinner somewhere else. Should be a nice place once the crowds die down and the kinks are worked out, we still had fun Friday there.
Any time someone mentions a new business on "Glenwood Avenue" I get excited. But then most of the time they are referring to Glenwood South, which from my perspective (Brier Creek) might as well be downtown. (I guess technically it is downtown, isn't it?) Oh well. Sounds like an interesting place. Maybe I'll check it out sometime.
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I'd not be happy if I popped 8 or 9 bucks for some exotic pint only to find it had gone skunky because there's been little turn in the product.
A beer will go "skunky" due to exposure to light. This should not be a problem in their tap system. What you may be referring to is when beer sits in the tap line too long and picks up a moldy/mildewy character from improper tap line cleaning.
Now that I am a bit older, I find 6 to 9 dollar beers to be expensive. I try to find specials and mostly buy good beer and take home to enjoy by the pool. I wish I had this mind set when I was younger and I would be rich.
Funny, the older I get the more I tend to AVOID places that simply sell
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Unfortunately any establishment in Glenwood South isn't about providing products or service for a good price. Much like DisneyLand your paying a premium for the experience.. A few dollars more per item and paying to park weeds out the customers who prefer to budget and spend their money rationally. That's not the clientele downtown is going for these days. Not saying I wouldn't go but I definitely wouldn't expect it to be a good deal ,moneywise.
I think you pay a premium for the higher rents being charged on GWS. Even for GWS, that is crazy high. I don't think you would pay more than $4.50 anywhere up and down Glenwood. I can't wait to go, but if I want to go somewhere crowded and clublike, it won't be a beergarden. I will wait til the crowd dies down.
A beer will go "skunky" due to exposure to light. This should not be a problem in their tap system. What you may be referring to is when beer sits in the tap line too long and picks up a moldy/mildewy character from improper tap line cleaning.
Thanks for the clarification, New. Regardless of the mechanics let's hope RBG sets as high a premium on quality control has they have on prices.
Presumably it should be first rate system since it's a new build. When Carolina Ale House opened their new facility next door I chatted with one of their staffers who told me their keg/tap system room was held to pretty much hospital operating room standards of clean.
I guess the other question I alluded to was if they have a keg of Unobtainium IPA (hey, I just made that name up, but I think I'd better trademark it quick. Not a bad name if you ask me) and they're only selling a few pints a week from a selection of 350+ beers available, at some point the product isn't going to be optimal as an item that turns more quickly. As an owner I guess you have a choice to make: pull the product, serve the product regardless or put it on special quick. In two of those choices you're taking a financial hit. Hopefully it's baked in the fiscal cake, but when you've dropped major coin to build a new operation it leaves the door open for less-than-customer-centric decisions.
I think you pay a premium for the higher rents being charged on GWS. Even for GWS, that is crazy high. I don't think you would pay more than $4.50 anywhere up and down Glenwood. I can't wait to go, but if I want to go somewhere crowded and clublike, it won't be a beergarden. I will wait til the crowd dies down.
$5-$6 for a pint of quality beer seems to be the going rate anywhere in Raleigh for a quality craft beer. $4.50 is cheap. I looked at their price list, and while some seemed really high ($6 for a Yuengling must be because anyone that would go to a place like that and order a Yeungling got dragged kicking and screaming anyway), there were some really good deals on the list. I think I recall $4.50 for a Hoppyyum, which is lower than any non-special price I've seen, and many of the local crafts were low too.
As stated, I think they need to work on their pricing. But I think some are unusually high, and SOME are unuusally low. All in all it's a decent balance.
I may go there at some point in the future, but I'd just as soon find a place with 10-20 quality taps at a decent price, with food and service to match. If they have all that (among their 300+ taps) then I'll go and go again. Also would love to take out of town customers there if the crowds die down...
Flying Saucer is a good "beer knurd" alternative, IMO.
Looking at the way they have the system set up form those pics, the lines should be pretty good. The cooler is right back behind that giant wall of taps and they said they were trying to keep the lines to 12' or less for all of them.
Presumably it should be first rate system since it's a new build. When Carolina Ale House opened their new facility next door I chatted with one of their staffers who told me their keg/tap system room was held to pretty much hospital operating room standards of clean.
Just curious, what new facility are you talking about? And for all the Yuengling haters, I think it's a good beer but not worth $6. Sometimes I drink Yuengling and other times a porter or lager. Yuengling is better than something like Coors, Budweiser, etc.
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), there were some really good deals on the list. I think I recall $4.50 for a Hoppyyum, which is lower than any non-special price I've seen, and many of the local crafts were low too.
