BarrelHouse Brewing Company - Paso Robles

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.

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.

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.

Great place. Feels like a winery. Nice beer, good staff and great flight prices. Outdoor scenic seating and big open indoor seating.

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.

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.

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.

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.

While researching the breweries in California we discovered this gem in Paso Robles. The small brewery is located in a business park. They do a good job of making you feel you are in a special place. The bar had large windows that opened to the yard with grass and a rock setting with flowing water. Picnic tables and chairs were available in the grassy area. There was music at 3 PM on Sunday. Ginna was our bartender. The beers were good to average, and I purchased a Bomber for the road of the IPA.