Gordon Biersch Brewing

Gordon Biersch Brewery & Restaurant

Brewery: Gordon Biersch Brewing

Location: Seattle, WA

Date: Feb. 28, 2018
Tag Team Partners: None, however the bartender was awesome (See below)

 Intro: Getting pumped up for Emerald City Comic-Con 2018, I ventured into the city today to do a ShadesExpress delivery for Rich Bernatovech, one of our artist friends who flew in from New York.  If you're in for the con, check him out and pick up some excellent artwork in Artist Alley at Booth W2.

Located high up on the 4th floor of Pacific Place sits Gordon Biersch Brewing's Seattle Restaurant.  Personally, I love Pacific Place in terms of how it is set up, and I love the feeling of being way up in the skylines of the city doing the things you love (drinking, eating, movie theaters, etc.)

Gordon Biersch presents itself as a classy restaurant on a top floor of a higher-end shopping mall.  I had already eaten, so I did not get a chance to taste the food there, but I was able to grab a Flight of brews before heading into AMC to see a 12:20 showing of The Post.  

SOTR1989 Shoutout Moment: The bartender Sarah is new to the Seattle area (Welcome to the Northwest!)  She was very kind, awesome to talk to about beer, and various things to do around Seattle, and overall added to the experience.  Thank you Sarah for your awesome service!  Keep up the Great Work!  You get my #SOTR1989 shout-out for "Spreading Awesomeness Worldwide."

The beer was pretty good, and gave a nice variety of the different styles and flavors that they offer.  As stated before, the staff was amazing.  Even the guy sitting next to me was pretty cool to talk to about different beers and breweries.  Even talked about On-Demand TV, and the wintery conditions in London for the Soccer match.  I definitely recommend this place, and will have to return to try the food as well.  Recommended.

On my Tap for the Evening was: 

- Golden Export
Style: Lager
Brewery: Gordon Biersch Brewery
Untapped Rating: 3.25/5
Description: "Very nice and smooth for a lager, Golden, crisp, fluid, hint of ginger."
Comments: Nice lager, golden and fluid, but crisp enough to give it a nice effect.  There are hints of ginger mixed in to add some extra flavor to the mix.  Good beer.

- Märzen
Style: Märzen
Brewery: Gordon Biersch Brewery
Untapped Rating: 3/5
Description: "Nice malty smooth and clean Oktoberfest beer, almost caramel-like."
Comments: This malty brew was very smooth and clean.  The flavor came across as almost caramel in taste, and was very refreshing.  It went down light, and was a good selection.

- Festbier
Style: Festbier
Brewery: Gordon Biersch Brewery
Untapped Rating: 3/5
Description: "Smooth fest beer, crisp, golden lager taste, sweet."
Comments: Nice and smooth beer.  The golden taste is immediately noticed, and it finishes in a crisp and sweet lager aftertaste.  These aren't your typical boring lagers, this is another good choice.

- Belgian Pale Ale
Style: Pale Ale
Brewery: Gordon Biersch Brewery
Untapped Rating: 3.5/5
Description: "Very nice pale ale.  Slight hop, hint of banana, pale with a great Belgian finish and a dash of spice."
Comments: This was an interesting, and the first one that really jumped out to me as one of their best.  It's a refreshing pale ale, with hints of banana that finishes with a great Belgian taste, and a bit of spice to add to the mix.  I recommend trying this one.  Very good!

- Got Your 6
Style: Pale Ale
Brewery: Gordon Biersch Brewery
Untapped Rating: 2.75/5
Description: "Hoppy pale ale, bitter, roasty but light."
Comments: This wasn't bad, but I didn't care for it as much as the Belgian Pale Ale.  Perhaps drinking the former first spoiled this one for me, but this was just a regular pale ale with some hops and bitterness mixed in.  Credit for making it a light roast flavor, but almost too much going on at once.  I recommend trying it, and maybe I'll retry it someday and have different thoughts.

- Imperial Stout
Style: Beer
Brewery: Gordon Biersch Brewery
Untapped Rating: 2.75/5
Description: "Good stout, full, rich."
Comments: This was a decent stout.  It's nothing out of the ordinary, but makes for a nice dessert beer.  The fullness and richness is certainly there.  You get what you expect.

- Hefeweizen
Style: Hefeweizen
Brewery: Gordon Biersch Brewery
Untapped Rating: 4/5
Description: "Very sweet beer, almost like white wine, banana taste, clear, smooth, striking taste."
Comments: This was given as an extra sample as the gentleman sitting next to me enjoyed it.  It was actually very good.  Very much on the sweet side, gave off a taste of banana, and white wine flavors.  It was clear and smooth, and the taste strikes you.  At the time I could not remember the beer it reminded me of, but now that I recall, it is much like the Scuttlebutt Hefeweizen.  For some reason, when I am offered Hefeweizen, I can never recall the taste of the style.  Part of me believes this is due to my first Hefe being Widmer Brother's Hefeweizen which carries a stronger citrus taste as opposed to the sweeter more dessert-like versions. This has almost forced my opinion to think of the style as much more bitter like a Pale Ale, but my mistake.  Regardless, very nice beer, and much recommended.