Latest reviews from Paso Robles
| 80 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Nice taproom beside a huge factory. $2.75/3oz. About 30 beers on tap. Some sours, some barrel aged, lots of easy drinking. Quality isn’t great on easy drinking. Lots of great cans and bottles to go.“ |
| 82 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “This is a huge complex sprawled over several blocks. There is an Emporium a few blocks south as well - which closes earlier, so I wish I had gone there first. Each place has a slightly different tap list. Service is good, selection is excellent, and bottles and merch are on sale. Food is tasty as well. The taproom has beers from each of their other location. A must-visit sort of place.“ |
| 72 /100 Paso Market Walk (Beer Store) 1803 SPRING ST “This is basically a hipster food court, and I mean that in a good way. In the center there's a good coffee place, on one end is a Napolitano style pizzeria and on the other is a vegan burger place. There is also a deli, a bbq place and a ramen bar, plus the aforementioned Hog Canyon pseudobrewery. The ramen bar has a dozen or so real Japanese beers, not just Hitachino Nest, an the ramen is OK.“ |
| 70 /100 201 SPRING ST “Visited June 2023.
Was a short trip from our rental place for the Firestone Walker festival, so stopped in on the way to Tin City. Pretty huge space inside and they had a lot of outdoor space as well. Big parking lot.
Took a seat at the bar and tried a couple half pints. Had already eaten, so did not try the food, but it looked pretty decent for brewpub fare. There were I believe 8 house beers on tap during my visit. I tried the American Lager and Centennial IPA, both of which were fine but nothing to write home about.
Seemed like very much a locals place. The staff were friendly and helpful and the service was quick.
A decent stop, but not necessarily a beer destination. Nothing bad to say about the place though.“ |
| 72 /100 Paso Market Walk (Beer Store) 1803 SPRING ST “One of the northernmost beer places in the city. I went there looking for Hog Canyon Brewery, which supposedly opens at 3PM. They have 6 beers on tap for $8/pint or $16 flight (which I didn’t see). Actually it turned out to be a bar. There are no beers from Hog Town brewing. They get kegs from other breweries, like Mojito from BarrelHouse and Opening Haze from Strike.
The shopping center is actually quite awesome with fantastic pizza and pastries and a decent selection of cans of beers and ciders. A wine bar as well.“ |
| 72 /100 201 SPRING ST “8 beers on tap, easy drinking styles which includes 1 hard seltzer. Very spacious place. 6oz tasters for $3-4 each. Full menu: maybe they are seeking a dinner crown more than beer patrons. Plenty of parking. 3.6 mostly because selection is small.“ |
| 82 /100 525 PINE ST, STE B “Wow. The tap room is really really hidden. There is a bar called the “Pour House” with 20 beers on tap including 4 Silva beers. Nice place. In the back of the bar there is a small sign saying “Silva Brewing” with an arrow. Follow that to the back, where there is the “empty of course” brewery tasting room, which is actually quite awesome with 11 beers on tap, including a nice sour.“ |
| 74 /100 1346 RAILROAD STREET “Beautiful location in downtown Paso Robles. 13 beers on tap: All easy drinking styles. $3/5oz taster. Flight of 5 for $15. Beautiful wood and corrugated steel walls. Spacious. Easy street parking.“ |
| 84 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “A whole big thing with multiple establishments on premises, the store, the taproom, the emporium, etc. Good beers and good people abound. Solid ‘biance. Ticks on site, ticks to go. You won’t be disappointed. In fact, I guarantee on my honor as a ticker that it will appoint you very much.“ |
| 68 /100 1300 RAILROAD ST “Killer spot in downtown Paso with a great’biance and pretty solid beer selection, 20 taps and a bunch of bottles. You’ll get ticks but nothing super rare. They have flights for aforementioned ticking. Huge outdoor space, great burgers and lobster rolls and the like.“ |
| 64 /100 1346 RAILROAD STREET “Nice outdoor space. Good view. Chill bros running the bar. Fun area. Beer is ok. About 10 taps and all are in the neighborhood of average.“ |
| 66 /100 1346 RAILROAD STREET “This place is quite big. They have two buildings and then a big outdoor courtyard/patio area in between. I ended up going in to the northernmost building and took a seat at the bar.
The feel of the place very much fits in to the sort of cowboy/western feel that Paso has in general. Exposed wood everywhere, kind of meant to look like a barn, I suppose.
They had 8-10 beers on draft during my visit. I opted to do a flight (they do sets of 5) of some different styles. The pale ale was quite bad (very buttery), but everything else was just okay. The kind of beers that you wouldn't dump out, but wouldn't make a point to seek out a second time.
Service was friendly and they had plenty of TVs with the Sunday NFL games on for your viewing pleasure. Not terribly crowded, but doing a decent business on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Main issue here is parking since the place is kind of on a side street and their lot has room for about six cars. I was able to find something up the street, but you may have to loop around a time or two to find something.“ |
| 80 /100 3005-A LIMESTONE WAY “Visited July 2019. Large tasting room and patio area out front. Located in the Tin City industrial park and pretty much next door to Barrelhouse Brewing. They have a large variety of ciders on draft that you can do tasters or full pours of, also have cider to go. A variety of just plain apple ciders as well as some different fruited versions. The quality also kind of spreads from good to not so good, but with the number of offerings you can probably find something you like. Good service and a cool place to hang out. Obviously it can get very hot here, so keep that in mind when planning your visit. They also have some patio games like cornhole outside. Cool place and would definitely stop in during my next trip to Paso.“ |
| 80 /100 3340 RAMADA DR, STE C “Have been here a few times. Most recent visit was in July 2019. Just a minute or so down the road from Barrelhouse and Tin City in a little business park. Plenty of parking available. Large L-shaped bar with some barrel high tops around the inside of the main space. There is also a little second room here. They've gone with a polynesian/Tiki style decor that kind of fits their theme. You order beers and food at the bar. These guys make a pretty wide variety of styles here and also have some good guest taps from other California/central coast breweries. I've never eaten here, but the beers are generally pretty decent. Flights available as are full pours and beer to go in growlers. Definitely worth a stop when you're in Paso.“ |
| 70 /100 The Pour House (Bar) 525 PINE STREET “Have visited this place a number of times over the years on trips up and down 101, usually to try to visit whichever brewery was operating out of the back. This rating is for the bar/venue itself. I've never eaten here or seen a show, just grabbed a beer or two. They have a nice patio area out front, but it always seems to be 100 degrees when I visit, so I don't sit out there. Tap list is generally good, though not amazing. Most recent visits have been largely focused on Paso/other Central Coast breweries like Firestone, Barrelhouse, Central Coast, Silva, etc. Service and pricing are decent. Might as well stop in if you're visiting Silva Brewing.“ |
| 80 /100 525 PINE ST, STE B “Have visited here a few times, most recently in August 2019. Small bar/tasting room in the back of Pour House, I guess you would say. Was excited to come here and try the beers since I was always a big fan of Chuck Silva's beers at Green Flash back in the day. Unfortunately, the beers here are nowhere near as good as those old Green Flash beers. They brew a wide variety of styles and generally nothing is bad, but nothing really outstanding either. It can get quite hot in here in the warmer months (which is a lot of the year in Paso). Tasters, full pours, growlers, and bottles all available. Definitely worth a stop when you're in town.“ |
| 96 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Finally got to visit this classic place. Gigantic operation with room for hundreds in the various different sections of the place. We visited after Covid reopening, so you can order by QR core and they bring out the beers. Very large taplist with 3 oz pours available for between $1.75 and $3.75, which is very damn reasonable for the quality of the beers. We sampled 10 and were impressed with pretty much everything. Top-notch service rounds the experience it. World-class place.“ |
| 66 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Huge place, sat at the visistors center, not much ambiance to speak of, but an excellent selection of FW brews, service is competent. Don't miss when passing through.“ |
| 92 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Bit outside town really nice place.“ |
| 74 /100 3055 LIMESTONE WAY “Paso Robles is beautiful and this has outdoor seating so this gets high scores on the intangibles but the beer was pretty disappointing. Far from bad, but not particularly interesting. Best thing here was a nitro stout they brewed for St. Patrick's Day - thought the sours were rather one-dimensional and the IPAs a bit watery.“ |
| 94 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Visited on a beautiful spring day and sat outside in the taproom. Waitstaff was top notch - came by at just the right times, had opinions on the beer - quite good. The beer itself - it's FW. I was hoping for crazy rare vintages of their barrel aged stuff. They had four taps of those but nothing crazy rare for someone who lives in CA. The sour selection was superb though. Tasters available of everything. Everything was good to spectacular. Picked up a couple of bottles I've never seen before to take home.
FW is superb. They do some amazing stuff and their brewery / taproom is a great place to taste some of their more experimental stuff along with their old classics. The mothership is a bit off the beaten path, but it's well worth the visit if you're ever anywhere near the Central Coast area. Worth going out of your way for. Even my fiancee loved this place and these beer bars are something she does to humor me.“ |
| 92 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Great food. Beautiful place. Great selection plus opportunity to take home super rare bottles. A must stop.“ |
| 78 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Wow, a huge complex. Big restaurant and bar area. Don't have time for a tour today, maybe next time. Good beer and service. The calamari was pretty bad, I hope the rest of the meal is better. Edit: The salmon was great.“ |
| 86 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Visited after RateBeer Best 2017. Huge brewery, the brewery store was closed so I only got to check out the taproom/restaurant. Pretty spacious bar and table seating. Very friendly and attentive service. Pretty good selection of beers on draft including some taproom only beers and their limited sours/reserve releases. Flights available in sets of four and reasonably priced. All the new beers I tried were top notch as expected. Food was all fantastic and really well done especially for a brewery. Since the brewery store was closed, they had bottles/cans available to go, pretty much all of their barrel aged bottles and several sours. Plus their year round and seasonals. There’s not a whole lot to do in Paso Robles but this is well worth a visit if you’re passing through or want to make the pilgrimage.“ |
| 68 /100 3055 LIMESTONE WAY “Decent sized taproom in a small business park. Beautiful outdoor patio. Friendly service but somewhat slow with one bartender even though it wasn’t busy. Good selection of beers although it was mostly hoppy stuff on my visit. Worth a stop if you have time before hitting up Firestone Walker.“ |
| 86 /100 525 PINE ST, STE B “Stopped by with SamGamgee after a run down to Firestone. New spot behind the Pour House (tap room), and you can enter either through there (Pine Street), or through the other side (6th Street). Not sure about food, looked like you could bring your own in. Lot of stainless steel everywhere, and a nice board that showed the 10 beers on tap along with wrap around shelving stacked with crowlers, growlers, and other stuff for sale. I liked the pouring sizes, 5oz and 10 oz only, which give you the flexibility of sampling many of their brews. Sampled about 4 between the three of us, all good. Service was excellent, and there was a constant flow of customers in and out. Great addition to the Central Coast.“ |
| 72 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “This place is like a GD campus. It’s enormous, with the golf-carts whipping around, an entire block’s-worth of kegs towering over one sector. The bottle-shop area didn’t have much in the way of special stuff and was no more reasonably priced (maybe even higher on vintage stuff) than I can find here in PDX.
Didn’t stop for lunch but grabbed a growler fill of the special pub-only beer.
Not an overwhelming experience, but really the most reliably amazing brewer of beers I can think of.“ |
| 68 /100 5800 ADELAIDA RD “Damn that’s a beautiful place. Decent cider too, I like it a lot. The wine is also top stuff. Tried a few ciders, a few wines liked the lot.
Bought a mix of bottles and went on my merry way. Definitely worth a stop if you’re winding your way out to Tablas Creek or wherever.“ |
| 90 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Only did the visitor center and the tour, but it was great. Beautiful brewery with a nice bar to try some samples at before and after the tour. Service was great, friendly and knowledgeable, I think all were cicerone beer server certified. Selection was awesome, the core stuff plus some stuff I didn’t even know Firestone made. A very cool brewery making great barrel aged beers, as well as some superb regular stuff.“ |
| 80 /100 3055 LIMESTONE WAY “This is more of a family friendly, bring your dog, let the kids run around with shit in their pants while we get sloshed on some unique beers kind of place. Curly Wolf Vanilla Maple Stout was on tap last I went, perfect. Surprisingly successful for a brewery this new.“ |
| 82 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “I went to gain weight using food and beer. Sorry, no tour. I was successfull in my goal but wait, there was more. Friendly service, above average food, and a good tap selection.Velvet Merlin on tap? Yes fucking please. Oh, there’s a sweet view of the freeway, too. No but seriously, Paso is beautiful, but this freeway view was stellar.“ |
| 90 /100 3055 LIMESTONE WAY “Great place. Feels like a winery. Nice beer, good staff and great flight prices. Outdoor scenic seating and big open indoor seating.“ |
| 78 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Did not have time to do a brewery tour, unfortunately. A nice place with nice ambiance, very american! Located right next to the Freeway. The food was good, the beer is Firestone Walker, which I had wanted to dry for a while already. Food was not cheap, the beer flights are quite cheap. Overall recommended.“ |
| 88 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “fantastic place to visit. visitor center and restaurant have different tap lists, so you "have" to hit both :) selections galore...barreled, hoppy, dark and light.“ |
| 68 /100 3055 LIMESTONE WAY “Really cool tasting room atmosphere, large out door area. Mostly street parking (feels kind of residential for Paso). A good place to hang out. No food when I was there. Very friendly. Beers ranged from mediocre to good. Will stop by again. Fun atmosphere.“ |
| 72 /100 The Pour House (Bar) 525 PINE STREET “New Pour House on Pine Street. Stopped by during a conference. Friendly people. Most regulars are wine industry people looking for an afterwork beer. Full of regulars. Local beers fill the taps (probably 20 or so of them). Good atmosphere, front patio. Street parking. Stop by if you are staying in town and are tired of wineries. If you are only driving through, go to FW.“ |
| 80 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “At a conference in Pacific Grove with a day off, so we headed down there on a Wednesday after booking a tour over e-mail 2 weeks out (probably not necessary, as there were only 2 others on the tour). Tour was fun, cool history with some samples during it. Our tour guide gave us a few more samples in the tasting room too, which was really cool and appreciated. Had lunch across the street in their tap room. A little disappointed that the barrel aged beers (4 of them) were available at the tasting room but not across the street in their restaurant. Food was very good. They also had bottles for sale (Stickee Monkee, Velvet Merkin and 17). Would certainly stop by if driving past on the 101!“ |
| 74 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “Went on a tour and had lunch at the brewpub. Tour was pretty good, a few samples and some neat stories (Current head brewer breaking in when FW bought the brewery from the bank, was then hired due to the dedication to the beer, still in tanks, that the FW crew saw in him) Great selection in the brewery taproom after the tour. Some vintage stuff as well as their more well distributed offerings. Lots of beer for takeaway, both growlers and bottles. Prices seemed rather high. Food at the taproom was good, though pricey (I think...thanks Jeff!). I had the daily special pizza. Overall, I’d return again for the beers in the brewery, but would probably scroll past lunch there.“ |
| 78 /100 3055 LIMESTONE WAY “Visited on a Friday evening in August as they had a band playing in their outdoor garden. The place has a huge brewing facility and really well done aesthetics overall. The outdoor area is nice as there is a stage on the back of an old truck and lots of grass areas to site or a number of tables and chairs. Water feature is also nice and lots of room for kids to run around and play. The bar area is fairly large and they had around 10 beers on tap with 3-4 being limited release stuff. The beer itself is ok, nothing stellar but nothing was horrible. The bar itself was nice as you could order beer inside or outside as they have windows that open and allow for full use of the bar area. They had a food truck when we were there but they also were cool with bringing in takeout food or just a picnic on the grass. Definitely worth a trip if you are headed to Firestone and have little ones along with you that want to do something besides watch dad tick beers.“ |
| 62 /100 5800 ADELAIDA RD “Visited July 26, 2014.
I really hate giving low scores to great places but there really isn’t much in the way of cider here, mostly wine. I suspect that this shouldn’t be in the database much longer, but we’ll see what happens. They have a new brewery/taproom down the way in Atascadero where they will start making a lot more cider starting with this harvest season. It remains to be seen though if they’ll keep some production here too. Would be cool if they did since it’s a beautiful place. Once you get off the freeway you end up driving about 7 miles inland through the hills. This place is at the top of one of the ridges looking out over the valley. Because the address is right on the street your GPS might put the place in the middle of the vineyard, so look for a gate on the right side of the road about 100 yards early. The windy 5 mile drive up Adelaida Rd is very scenic. Every farm has a sign on it advertising local produce; mostly nuts but also some olives, grapes, and some honey. Naturally there are about a half a dozen wineries on this stretch. I also spotted the drunk bus ("Uncorked wine tours") on my way back down the hill. What I also spotted that I probably should have stopped at was a place about a mile from Lone Madrone called Find Distillery which is part of the Villicana Winery. They have a tasting room but I scrolled on by. Apparently they’re going to be making whiskey at some point so someone should stop in there at some point to see if they sell the pre-distilled beer-type whatever it’s called which would probably count as a tick. At the moment it looks like they only make brandy. As I learned at Bristol on my next stop a lot of these wineries are experimenting with making brandy out of their wine. Hmm. So enough about the area. On to the cidery. it’s in a great spot on top of the hill. These guys do mostly wine but they have a line of ciders as well. The tasting is $10 for the wines and three out of five were zins. I guess this area is big on zinfandel. Of the ciders they have about three in the bottle for sale to go but the only one you can actually try there is the classic. The bottles are mostly around $9-$10 but a couple of them (Blackbeerd and Blackbart) are closer to $20. Service was very friendly and they directed me to Atascadero to try the ciders. The place is dog friendly too. One last note: this year will be the first year that they actually use grapes grown on the estate.“ |
| 78 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “The brewing tasting room is quite nice with more selection than across at the tap room. No real service, just a very busy bartender and small samples. This is where you get the good stuff.“ |
| 78 /100 3055 LIMESTONE WAY “This is a stunning brewery/pub with a great outdoor space. Huge bar and seating, but only their beer on tap and only 9ish at that. Small new and friendly with decent beer. Worth popping in if you are down the road.“ |
| 78 /100 3055 LIMESTONE WAY “Not too far from Firestone and not too far off the freeway. It was kind of difficult to find this place at night since there are zero street lights once you turn off of the main road parallel to the highway. Smallish parking lot but a huge brewery facility. It was dark, so I couldn’t get the full effect of some of the outdoor scenery, but what I could see was really nice. Plenty of seats open at the bar and they had seven beers available (normally 8 taps). Very friendly service, too. The beers were decent on average with a couple being fairly enjoyable. Hard to see these guys competing too much with Firestone a few minutes away, but really a nice place.“ |
| 62 /100 1108 PINE ST “Almost didn’t stop here because I thought they didn’t brew. But did a quick check of t0rin0’s rating and saw that it’s basically the same as SLO Brew, and I was on my way to Paso Robles Brewing Comapny (who funny enough, doesn’t brew anymore). Stopped in just in case they had any house beers I hadn’t tried. Just ordered a flight. Beers were okay--nothing great, nothing terrible. Service was friendly enough. Seems like most people didn’t really care about the house beers. For better or worse, the vibe was not quite the party atmosphere of SLO Brew the last time I stopped there.“ |
| 80 /100 5800 ADELAIDA RD “Came here to try/buy the Bristols ciders, but also did some wine tasting. The ciders and wines are both pretty decent to good. The women working the bar were very friendly and more than happy to answer questions, chat, and maybe even offer a slightly heavy pour. The tasting costs $10, but if you buy two bottles of wine they waive that fee. But of course, they are also $30-$50 bottles. Ended up just buying the ciders they weren’t pouring that day. The place itself is beautiful. Small tasting room, but lots of grapevines on the property, some apple trees visible, and a nice view of the valley below. This took a bit more of a drive to get to than expected, but it was quite nice.“ |
| 66 /100 Beverages and More (BevMo!) - Paso Robles (Beer Store) 2135 THEATRE DR “Pretty typical BevMo here. Your usual selection of Belgian and German imports rotting on the shelves. A healthy amount of Firestone and the other BevMo standby’s and Central Coast staples. Service was quite friendly, prices are typical of BevMo.“ |
| 68 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “The place looks great; however, it’ feels more like a restaurant with the beer as an after thought. The beer was excellent as I’m accustomed to from FW. Our server was okay, but not too knowledgable. Good variety of beer styles, and the wine list looked good as well. The food was crazy overpriced and not very good. I’d only go back to scoop up some take home beers or to grab a pint.“ |
| 90 /100 1400 RAMADA DR “The Taproom was special. There is a sign on the wall that states: "We are living beer." The Taproom is across the street the brewery and their tasting room. It was Sunday and they had the NFL games running in the bar area. Overhead the bar was a track with beer bottles moving in a circle. This is definetly "Industrial chic". The kitchen is open to the dinning area. It has the feeling of inside a brewery. Beers are excellent.“ |
