Doesn't serve food so can't rate that. Staff is awesome! They are friendly and make the best shots. Great selection. Older place but clean. Have pool and live music sometimes.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Shots
R K
Total and complete dive bar. Filthy. Disgusting. Uneven floors. Gross bathrooms. I give it a 5/5 for dive bars, if they had their own scale. I was there on a football weekend, so there's your context - it was wall to wall people. I enjoyed it for what it is, enjoyed some live music, had a couple drinks, and moved on. If I had friends that wanted to pop in for a quick drink, sure, I'd go. If I had friends that wanted to spend a great deal of time there, I'd ask them if they were serious. All that said, I'd go back. Take that for what you will.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 5
Mango F
The Brew used to be cool. Came in last night to celebrate my birthday with my friends, hoping to get a couple rounds of their iconic shots and play some darts. Paid cover, came in to a relatively busy bar, ordered one of the shots... but the bartender refused to make them, and we were told that they "don't do specialties on the weekend anymore." Talk about lame. I get not posting the huge list of shots while its busy, or not honoring low-cost specials, but when customers come in excited to order rounds of shots, you'd think they would just charge us a little extra for them. If you want to drink anything other than midlife crisis beer or straight liquor shots, you will most likely have more fun somewhere else. The vibes are cool, but vibes aren't enough to remedy lame bartenders.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Harry Foss
The Brew used to be cool. Came in last night to celebrate my birthday with my friends, hoping to get a couple rounds of their iconic shots and play some darts. Paid cover, came in to a relatively busy bar, ordered one of the shots... but the bartender refused to make them, and we were told that they "don't do specialties on the weekend anymore." Talk about lame. I get not posting the huge list of shots while its busy, or not honoring low-cost specials, but when customers come in excited to order rounds of shots, you'd think they would just charge us a little extra for them. If you want to drink anything other than midlife crisis beer or straight liquor shots, you will most likely have more fun somewhere else. The vibes are cool, but vibes aren't enough to remedy lame bartenders.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Olivia
Great place to go for a casual drink.........when the AC is working
Jyanix Bach
Watch the rats... when you talk about dive bars this is it
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Ava Wagner
Craig is anmazing along with all the other staff. Best place in State College. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Maya Foster
Craig was great! His service was amazing and quick?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Rachel Spinelli
The best barrrr ever. Shout out Craig.
Jim Dalzell
Celebrated my 86 birthday.. always wanted to see this historic place. Rocky treated me in a way that made the experience memorable. Highly recommend
My friends and I got kicked out because one person in our group used the male bathroom instead of the female bathroom because the female bathroom was FLOODED and out of order. Tried explaining the situation to the manager and he didn’t listen—kicked out our whole group anyways. Yelled in extremely unprofessional way. I work in food/bar service. This is not how it’s done. Their bad. Disappointing. Yikes.??
Service: 1
Tara Barndt
This is the place I met my now husband! And regardless of that, I cannot speak higher of this bar. This place brought so many different members of my family together. Whether it was cousins, aunts, dads, moms, brothers, this list goes on and on. This place has my heart and soul ❤️❤️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Shots, PBR and Rumpleminze Shot, Yuengling
Eugene Hunsinger
Great entertainment and phenomenal service by Rockey and Shooter! Very friendly people there, always enjoy my time there!
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Yuengling
Archer Christman
If you want to listen to Lowjack at peak performance, you need to go to The Brew.
Wheelchair accessibility: Multiple curb sized steps from the entrance to the main space.
Doesn't serve food so can't rate that. Staff is awesome! They are friendly and make the best shots. Great selection. Older place but clean. Have pool and live music sometimes.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Shots
Total and complete dive bar. Filthy. Disgusting. Uneven floors. Gross bathrooms. I give it a 5/5 for dive bars, if they had their own scale. I was there on a football weekend, so there's your context - it was wall to wall people. I enjoyed it for what it is, enjoyed some live music, had a couple drinks, and moved on. If I had friends that wanted to pop in for a quick drink, sure, I'd go. If I had friends that wanted to spend a great deal of time there, I'd ask them if they were serious. All that said, I'd go back. Take that for what you will.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 5
The Brew used to be cool. Came in last night to celebrate my birthday with my friends, hoping to get a couple rounds of their iconic shots and play some darts. Paid cover, came in to a relatively busy bar, ordered one of the shots... but the bartender refused to make them, and we were told that they "don't do specialties on the weekend anymore." Talk about lame. I get not posting the huge list of shots while its busy, or not honoring low-cost specials, but when customers come in excited to order rounds of shots, you'd think they would just charge us a little extra for them. If you want to drink anything other than midlife crisis beer or straight liquor shots, you will most likely have more fun somewhere else. The vibes are cool, but vibes aren't enough to remedy lame bartenders.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
The Brew used to be cool. Came in last night to celebrate my birthday with my friends, hoping to get a couple rounds of their iconic shots and play some darts. Paid cover, came in to a relatively busy bar, ordered one of the shots... but the bartender refused to make them, and we were told that they "don't do specialties on the weekend anymore." Talk about lame. I get not posting the huge list of shots while its busy, or not honoring low-cost specials, but when customers come in excited to order rounds of shots, you'd think they would just charge us a little extra for them. If you want to drink anything other than midlife crisis beer or straight liquor shots, you will most likely have more fun somewhere else. The vibes are cool, but vibes aren't enough to remedy lame bartenders.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Great place to go for a casual drink.........when the AC is working
Watch the rats... when you talk about dive bars this is it
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Craig is anmazing along with all the other staff. Best place in State College. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Craig was great! His service was amazing and quick?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The best barrrr ever. Shout out Craig.
Celebrated my 86 birthday.. always wanted to see this historic place. Rocky treated me in a way that made the experience memorable. Highly recommend
Restaurantji Recommends
My friends and I got kicked out because one person in our group used the male bathroom instead of the female bathroom because the female bathroom was FLOODED and out of order. Tried explaining the situation to the manager and he didn’t listen—kicked out our whole group anyways. Yelled in extremely unprofessional way. I work in food/bar service. This is not how it’s done. Their bad. Disappointing. Yikes.??
Service: 1
This is the place I met my now husband! And regardless of that, I cannot speak higher of this bar. This place brought so many different members of my family together. Whether it was cousins, aunts, dads, moms, brothers, this list goes on and on. This place has my heart and soul ❤️❤️
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Shots, PBR and Rumpleminze Shot, Yuengling
Great entertainment and phenomenal service by Rockey and Shooter! Very friendly people there, always enjoy my time there!
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Yuengling
If you want to listen to Lowjack at peak performance, you need to go to The Brew.
Wheelchair accessibility: Multiple curb sized steps from the entrance to the main space.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Shots, Yuengling
Preferential treatment and run down interior.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Loading...