Standing out the front of Stomping Ground Beer Hall and you have a slight underwhelming feeling that comes over you, because let’s face it the building itself is an old warehouse with four walls and a roof. It’s what they have done inside that takes your breath away and it’s then the realisation of where you are “Utopia” “Beer Utopia”.
This place is big, really big. Decked out with a nod to the industrial hood that they call home. This place has it all, open kitchen complete with a wood fire pizza oven, long bar place strategically in the centre of the room and a retail area selling beer and hoodies, but it’s the brewery looming over the beer hall like a proud father that completes this venue.
But, whilst I was super impressed with the fit out, we all know you can dress up a venue anyway you like but if the product and service doesn’t meet the same expectation, you just won’t come back. So it was to the bar I head to test the waters, I mean beers. The beer menu is as impressive as the venue it lives in and has all tastes covered.
So we grabbed our first round and ordered a couple of pizzas and headed into the mix of the crowd.
So it was a big tick to the venue, the beer and the food, but what really impressed me was the demographic of the punters. What Stomping Ground has magically managed to do, is not only attract the ever popular beer loving hipster, is the young family unit, and they have done this without turning it into a McDonald’s on a Saturday afternoon with five kids parties taking over the dining room.
This place truly impressed me and if you love beer you’ll also love this place.
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