Eel River Brewing Company

A nice old school brewpub in a shopping center type area, with a small indoor space, but an awesome outdoor biergarten. Service was good friendly and cordial, had beer suggestions, but was mostly just trying to turn tables for lunch crowd. Selection was solid, ran the table for styles, old and new, including hard seltzer and bourbon barrel barleywines. I'd go here again if I lived in the area for sure.

A pleasant enough place with memorabilia of reckless resource exploitation from a century ago. Beer is decent but no flights limits what you can reasonably taste in one visit. Food was good. Service was pleasant but not fast. Worth a short detour off 101 if you are passing through.

Biggish place rather outside the centre of town, great for us however as we were staying in a hotel practically next door. Good service. Decent selection on offer, most beers were rather good but the high gravity stuff was a bit disappointing. Food was great, I had the tri-tip dinner and my wife had the chilli with some onion rings. Prices were good, apart from the one 'special reserve' barley wine that I had, which was rather expensive. Worth a visit.

Very handy if you’re driving past, the food was absolutely fantastic and the beers are excellent as expected. Great place to stop.

Great inside and outside. Service was great. Maybe ten taps or so from them? Food was fantastic. Prices were very reasonable for a brewery. Overall, great experience.

Stopped in here on 8/5/10 and got a sampler. Decent enough looking place, but they’re going for the local dive angle with lots of stickers with funny slogans up by the TV. Beers were not very good. Porter was the best and it was pretty mediocre. Didn’t try the food. Service was okay. I can’t say anything incredibly good or bad about the place. It’s just kind of average all the way across the board.

I had no idea what to expect at this stop. Other than that it was in Humboldt county, so our motel required the odd signature that we would not smoke or sell marijuana on the premises. We were so amused that we photographed the disclaimer. The Organic IPA here was scrumptious. Food was plentiful and decent (great burgers!), and service was great if you were at the bar like us. Otherwise, plenty full and busy, even on a Monday night. Troed several brews, but settled on the IPA as the best (my own taste). Interesting brewery with all sorts of folks as customers.

This is your typical American brewpub, with generous food, friendly service and clean, good brews. All in all, nothing really stood out (although the beer garden seemed like a nice place to hang out when it didn’t rain) and that is mostly why I can’t give Eel River a great score as a place.

Nice place and good beers. Awsome bartender. Lots of entertaning stuff on the walls.