Firestone Walker Brewing Company (Taproom, Visitors Center, Brewery Store)

Finally got to visit this classic place. Gigantic operation with room for hundreds in the various different sections of the place. We visited after Covid reopening, so you can order by QR core and they bring out the beers. Very large taplist with 3 oz pours available for between $1.75 and $3.75, which is very damn reasonable for the quality of the beers. We sampled 10 and were impressed with pretty much everything. Top-notch service rounds the experience it. World-class place.

Huge place, sat at the visistors center, not much ambiance to speak of, but an excellent selection of FW brews, service is competent. Don't miss when passing through.

Bit outside town really nice place.

Visited on a beautiful spring day and sat outside in the taproom. Waitstaff was top notch - came by at just the right times, had opinions on the beer - quite good. The beer itself - it's FW. I was hoping for crazy rare vintages of their barrel aged stuff. They had four taps of those but nothing crazy rare for someone who lives in CA. The sour selection was superb though. Tasters available of everything. Everything was good to spectacular. Picked up a couple of bottles I've never seen before to take home. FW is superb. They do some amazing stuff and their brewery / taproom is a great place to taste some of their more experimental stuff along with their old classics. The mothership is a bit off the beaten path, but it's well worth the visit if you're ever anywhere near the Central Coast area. Worth going out of your way for. Even my fiancee loved this place and these beer bars are something she does to humor me.

Great food. Beautiful place. Great selection plus opportunity to take home super rare bottles. A must stop.

Wow, a huge complex. Big restaurant and bar area. Don't have time for a tour today, maybe next time. Good beer and service. The calamari was pretty bad, I hope the rest of the meal is better. Edit: The salmon was great.

Visited after RateBeer Best 2017. Huge brewery, the brewery store was closed so I only got to check out the taproom/restaurant. Pretty spacious bar and table seating. Very friendly and attentive service. Pretty good selection of beers on draft including some taproom only beers and their limited sours/reserve releases. Flights available in sets of four and reasonably priced. All the new beers I tried were top notch as expected. Food was all fantastic and really well done especially for a brewery. Since the brewery store was closed, they had bottles/cans available to go, pretty much all of their barrel aged bottles and several sours. Plus their year round and seasonals. There’s not a whole lot to do in Paso Robles but this is well worth a visit if you’re passing through or want to make the pilgrimage.

This place is like a GD campus. It’s enormous, with the golf-carts whipping around, an entire block’s-worth of kegs towering over one sector. The bottle-shop area didn’t have much in the way of special stuff and was no more reasonably priced (maybe even higher on vintage stuff) than I can find here in PDX. Didn’t stop for lunch but grabbed a growler fill of the special pub-only beer. Not an overwhelming experience, but really the most reliably amazing brewer of beers I can think of.

Only did the visitor center and the tour, but it was great. Beautiful brewery with a nice bar to try some samples at before and after the tour. Service was great, friendly and knowledgeable, I think all were cicerone beer server certified. Selection was awesome, the core stuff plus some stuff I didn’t even know Firestone made. A very cool brewery making great barrel aged beers, as well as some superb regular stuff.

I went to gain weight using food and beer. Sorry, no tour. I was successfull in my goal but wait, there was more. Friendly service, above average food, and a good tap selection.Velvet Merlin on tap? Yes fucking please. Oh, there’s a sweet view of the freeway, too. No but seriously, Paso is beautiful, but this freeway view was stellar.