Green Beacon Brewing Co

I went at 7pm on a Saturday and the place was practically dead. There was no vibe. Which is unfortunate because the brewery itself is very cool. I love the long wooden bar that continues out to a two-sided bar table - very, very cool. The beers are meh. Only 2 seasonal beers were on tap, which meant there was basically a typical 1x lager, pale, IPA, stout tap lineup. Nothing exciting. Disappointing. Dog friendly though, and the food truck is great - the pizza was amazing. But if you're not with dog, I wouldn't go out of your way to visit. You can try the beers they have from most bottle shops.

The beer here is fantastic - one of my top 3 breweries in Brisbane (one of my top 4 in Australia). I had the imperial pastry stout - it's very strong but it's got this great malty caramel flavour and they give it to you in a fancy glass so that you can enjoy the flavor better. Last time I was here they had a kitchen but now they just have food trucks - the range of chips wasn't great but I was there for beer. I relaxed with my wife watching the ashes on the TV great afternoon!

I have always enjoyed coming to Green Beacon. The locally brewed beers are all fantastic. (Just a heads up, if you're not beer drinker you'll be limited to either cider or a limited wine menu). While their beers are now commercially available it's still great to drink from the source. They also do offer many small batch beers that don't make it to bottle shops or other pubs. The food truck model works well here too with a rotating list of food trucks. My favourite is Wednesday night when king of the wings turns up.

The environment is really nice, the architecture makes up wooden tables and barrels, there are also cylinders producing beer behind the bar in the place which makes it rustic. The beers are wonderful, one tastier than the other and the price is cheaper than some other brewery. I tried some and chose a India Pale Ale, I advise anyone to know Green Beacon.

Met some friends who had a table until 6pm. Saf was incredibly rude to me and I've never experienced such a rude welcome in any restaurant/pub/bar. Tried to order a beer at 5:25pm where Saf (brunette girl with braids) yelled above the girl serving me to say "you better finish that in 10minutes, are you going to finish that in 10minutes? Because I'm clearing your table then." I said don't worry about it because she was so in my face. For the record, my partner and I were going to share the drink to finish it quickly as we were aware we had to rush and leave before the next booking. Our friends already had their drinks served and had pizzas on the way and we were all painstakingly reminded every 10minutes that we needed to leave by 5:30pm. She let other tables stay at 5:40pm?? So was clearly a lie.

Green beacon has become my favourite craft beer so had to come down and see where the magic happens. Turns out their brewery is awesome inside, nice laid back place with loads on tap. I have already been through the core range so helped myself to some limited release beers. Very interesting beers indeed! Just wish they let you do take away singles instead of 4 pack only.