I used to love this place. Their products (own brewed beer and somewhat famous bbq farm chicken) were always a treat. This does not make up for their execrable customer service. My experience: I went out with a couple of my friends one afternoon for some drinks. We sat down at the first table with no "Reserved" sign on it and drank a couple of rounds of beer and what do you know: we got hungry. Ordered a bbq chicken, when the waitress comes back to us saying: "We're sorry but I can't let you order food since this table is reserved in 10 minutes and you need to leave". You can imagine that this came to our surprise since we just had a fresh round of beers on our table. After our options were presented: "Move to the bar and ask the table manager if we could be seated again", we asked to speak to this manager. She came over and explained how because we were not eating anything they presumed that we would not stay more than 2 hours. Frankly an apology that they mixed things up was enough for us to leave but she was seemingly shocked how we don't understand that this is normal. I understand the fact that they are located in an area where they get enough tourists to not care about having customers, but this was too much in my book. read more

We stopped in at Bierfabriek while in Amsterdam over New Years. We were wandering about and thought it looked cool. It is right in the middle of the city so pretty convenient. Note: don't come in if you're allergic to peanuts as the floor is covered with shells. They give you a couple handfuls of peanuts on the table and when you're done the waiter just pushes them onto the floor. We were feeling snacky so we decided to order a bunch of random dutch stuff from the menu (very descriptive huh?). We were actually given a dutch menu so we decided to be bold and just order having no clue what we would get. From the finger food we tried the bitterballen, goat cheese croquettes, ham croquettes, calamari, chorizo, prawns and olives. We also got 2 of the bruschetta boards. I figured all this out after we left and checked the english menu hanging in the window haha. All the seafood lovers enjoyed the shrimp and calamari while I dug into the croquettes. Sadly... they were all pretty mushy and tasted the same.. kind of a bummer as we were STARVING. We had no clue what to expect from bitterballen but it said they were a dutch snack so we obviously HAD to try them. We were surprised when we heard they contain beef - they tasted like mushy cabbage. Luckily the bruschetta was tasty (minus the truffle one). I really enjoyed the caprese and artichoke ones but the truffle was just very overpowering. I guess I am not used to getting anything in the states that comes with 1/2 cup of "truffle cream" on it for 7 euros. I don't think I would venture back for another round of mushy croquettes but overall we had a nice evening. x read more

They don't know it, but this place has accomplished something quite amazing: they made me actually like a beer place! yay!! At the Bierfabriek,you walk in and you wonder when was the last time they actually swiped the floors, as they are covered with peanut shells. They you realize this is part of the charm of this place and you start eating peanuts like crazy and throwing the shells on the food just like everybody else. Then if you're lucky, you're sitting at the one of the tables where you get to tab your own beer and because it's fun, you start pouring beer even though you don't really like beer. And that's when the miracle occurs: this beer actually tastes nice!!! They have three beers: Puur (a blond beer), Rosso (a red ale beer, my personal favorite) and Nero (a dark beer). They also do food: small bites (the traditional bitterballen are nice) and their signature dish, roasted chicken, which has been marinated for 24 hours and is truly delicious. They also have a few other dishes that change daily. Overall this place has a nice wibe, good easy-going friendly atmosphere. Perfect to catch up with friends around borrel or dinner! read more

Great place to start a Friday or Saturday evening with friends. Plenty of space and lots of beers! Free Peanuts everywhere for those who love to nibble while sipping. 3 choices of beer all home brewed. Kids will have fun especially when no one complaints when they mess up the place with peanut shells. read more

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Great place to relax and have a beer! They have peanuts on the table for free to snack on and great food to order. I highly recommend the chicken here which is slow roasted on a rotisserie over charcoal which gives it a wonderful flavor, they serve it with fries and a amazing barbecue sauce. The place is also conveniently close to Dam square and also the tram which can quickly take you to Rembrandt square both very lively squares with lots to do. read more

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Great place if you enjoy good beer. It's a great venue for hanging with friends or maybe a party with a group. Don't worry if you make a mess because they encourage it - you can throw the shells of the bar nuts on the floor. I just love it here. read more

The chicken here is unbelievable. I have never had anything like it. The fries are also amazing and so crispy. The chicken is fall off the bone tender yet has a smoky flavor from being grilled. Chicken is mostly dark meat but that didn't bother me at all. We had the Pilsner beer and it was good- golden. The best part of the experience? The bbq sauce is perfect. One is spicy and the other a touch sweet but balanced with vinegar. I would purchase it or steal it to bring back to Florida if I could. Service is slow but whatever. read more

Bierfabriek - Peanuts - Brewpubs Near Me - Amsterdam, New Hampshire

Sitting in a booth with your own tap, how much closer to beer heaven can you get? The beer hits the spot on a hot Amsterdam afternoon. The peanuts are fun. Their chicken and fries are good. My family and I loved the place. read more

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Came to Bierfabriek on a Tuesday night while traveling for business in Amsterdam. It's a casual brewery/pub that makes their own beer and also has some bites. I really enjoyed the rosso beer! Easy to drink with more flavor than a light one. The beers were so incredibly cheap...I got 2 for 7 Euros. The group I was with also ordered a few apps to split amongst 10-15 people over the course of the night. I tried the fries, goat cheese croquettes, meat croquette, and samosas. They were all great! My favorite was probably the goat cheese croquette. Super oozy on the inside and crisp on the outside. Great spot to grab a drink and light fare in a convenient downtown Amsterdam location. read more

This restaurant bar is much bigger than it appears from the outside or at least it seemed that way. I entered from the front off Rokin. The person up front said the tables they'd reserved for us were on the other side. Indeed they were. It seemed a distance. Maybe because it seemed dark and it was still daylight outside. Regardless, it seemed they had a somewhat limited menu which on the one hand doesn't give you much choice but does enable them to put out mass quanties if they needed to. The main entree was the grilled range chicken. It's a somewhat simple presentation with a small whole chicken on a plate with a few garnishes. The chicken was really quite tasty. We also got fries with the chicken. There were three main choices of beer on tap, a white beer, a red beer and a dark porter. I had the dark porter. I liked it a lot. It wasn't heavy nor bitter but had a really nice flavor and was quite smooth and easy to drink, really easy. One very interesting feature was the piles of peanuts on the table ready for shelling and eating while drinking your beer without a care for where the shells fell, on the table or floor. No matter. It was Interesting and kind of fun. No I didn't fling shells across the room nor think of doing that. I did eat a lot of peanuts though. As the night progressed it got louder probably due to the fact that there were so many people in there now. Later though as the crowd thinned it still seemed loutd. Like the music went up to compensate for less people. One last thing. They are dog friendly!!!! read more

Food is average but I like the atmosphere, friendly service and very tasty beer. Tried all their brewed beers. Cool place to hang out with friends before going out for the night. Very affordable too read more

An interesting concept for Amsterdam. You can actually get FREE peanuts here while you are drinking you beer, in a country where nothing is free, be sure to take advantage of this one. Just walk up to the huge bags of peanuts on the wall, take some back to your table and throw the shells on the floor. Probably the most interesting thing though it you can sit at a table with a beer tap that is built into the table. Unfortunately did not get to try this when I went because out group was too large. But, the place is really big and if you do have a big group, it is not a problem. There are really long tables in the back that can accommodate a lot of people. The beer itself was not bad. They had a light variety and a dark variety and was served in small (not the 1L Oktoberfest variety!) German style mugs. read more

If you just go for peanuts and chicken, you'd be going for the right reasons. Yeah, the chicken is a little on the pricey side, but you might want to split it with a friend, lest you get sodium overload. Still hungry? Fill up on unlimited peanuts! Skip the bread - it's lame and pricey. Two important points about the chicken: 1. It's marinaded in their beer. 2. It's cooked over coals. Both add intense flavor to the little things that can be found at few other places. Bonus, the chicken comes with three decent sauces (the red pepper one is awesome), and you can substitute delicious potato wedges for the fries. read more

Liked it a lot! Tasty beer, affordable prices, friendly staff, free peanuts, delicious bitterballen. Will return! read more

Great brewery in downtown Amsterdam! Not a huge selection, but beer is very good! Love the peanuts on the floor concept. Service is always great and food is very good! Thought to get a seat at busy times so make reservations if you can. read more

Absolutely love coming here every time we're in Amsterdam. Great beers that they make in house. Food is delicious! Staff is great and knowledgeable!! Peanuts on the table, so if you've got a peanut allergy, take care read more

This place is awesome for chicken and beer. Seriously though the best chicken for €13,50! We walked in on Friday evening and there was a bit of a wait ~ 20 minutes. We headed straight to the bar and ordered a round of beers for 3 of us to try. Then another round, and voila table is ready! 3 chickens and a bowl of fries. The succulent, juicy meat and smoky flavor made this chicken unforgettable for me! I loved the place. It's a bit messy but it's a style with all the peanut shells on the ground, 4 beers to try and one type of chicken to order. It's like a farm life: simple and delicious. I would bring my friends here in a heartbeat! Please don't change, I love you as is! read more

We grabbed the last table by the door, which was perfect for watching the street roll by in the rain. They did have an outdoor area that smokers huddled in on occasion, and it looked like it would've been a decent place to sit outside. Bierfabriek had an entire BBQ chicken on the menu the day we were there. They were on the rotisserie for 24-hours, and it was a great meal if you walked in hungry. (Size is relative to your usual experiences, so I personally thought the 'whole chicken' was on the smaller side, as in the USA one would not order a whole chicken on a plate for themselves and expect to finish it! This was definitely the perfect sized good meal for one.) Apparently they offer this regularly, and have a great setup that you can walk by a window to the kitchen and see all these chickens rotating on the spit. Very cool. They had complimentary peanuts that you shelled, and threw your remains on the floor. For as busy as it was, and as drunk as many of the patrons seemed, their bathrooms were very clean. Hooray! Waitstaff was very nice. Some tables offered a keg and tap setup with two beers at your fingertips, which seems an efficient choice if you're there to drink heavily. Their beer list was short, but good. Definitely worth a quick trip to request a flight to try their brews (or hunker down on a rainy night.) I felt the experience was more like a regular restaurant that made it's own beer instead of a brewery. If you are looking for a beer-lover's experience I would pop in early, and plan move on to other options. read more

This is a nice place with a good atmosphere. They have 4 of their own beers, I tried 2 and both were good. The menu was more cheese platters and appetizers other than one chicken dish. So if you're really hungry and are looking for something other than chicken, be prepared. read more

Really bad service. The staff makes no effort to be pleasant or even polite. Just don't bring your friends here. There's plenty of options in town. read more

Really great service, but the food is just okay. The bartender even offered to refoam our drinks when she saw we were taking pictures of them. I tried the bitterballen, which I thought was okay, but I've had better. The novelty of throwing the peanut shells on the ground is fun too. read more

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Very good chicken place. Meat falls off the bone. Chicken is very small but house meals comes along with fries to fill you up. Sauce selection is small but they are quite good. Nothing spicy but bbq is the play. read more

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This place is something unforgettable !!! Beer is great, food is great, people of any age ( not only 25 or younger like someone said) and everyone is happy to be here. You can compare it to Munich"s Oktoberfest, but it is much smaller, but food variety is larger and testier. read more

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Always fun in the Bier Fabriek , tap your own beer at the tap table and enjoy a succulent chicken. Friendly staff here people. Nice spacious atmosphere for informal dinging and throwing some peanuts around read more

Good beers. Good food. Fun atmosphere. Don't go if you have a nut allergy. They serve in shell peanuts for every table. Shells all over the floor make it feel a bit more casual but hip place. Also some big feast size tables so good for big parties/groups. read more

So yummy!!! We got the big meat platter to share and it was plenty of food (sadly no cheese though) the staff were very friendly and I will definitely be back next time I'm in Amsterdam! Pretty lad back, good for family but also great for young adults trying to chill and get a beer! read more

I used to love Bierfabriek. The beer, the peanuts, the BBQ chicken...but a curse has befallen the place: atrocious waiting staff syndrome. when did it become acceptable to grab away the plate and drinks of customers while they are still eating?! Even in other Mongolia they would know that is is plain rude. Shame on Amsterdam's dining scene. read more

If you like Bernie Sanders, you'll love this chicken restaurant. The chicken is pretty good but the service is worse than a truck stop McDonald's. read more

Full disclosure...not a huge beer drinker so a bar with beer in their name is unlikely to get 5 stars from me. I do like a good beer every now and then. Their Nero, the porter, was quite good. Definitely a place for groups, especially the taps on some of the tables, and a decent sound level a place with such a large number of large groups. There are some seats outside but with the construction around it's a little depressing. read more

We looked at the menu before going here so it was fine. If you're looking to split some charcuterie and have some beers this is the place. Limited menu for going out for dinner. read more

Chicken is great, beer is OK, service is beyond horrible--to the point where it seems like they are going out of their way to be rude. Pretty obvious they hate Americans. Don't waste your time (literally takes 2 hrs). Kenny Rogers Roasters would be ashamed. read more

I don't know how it took me so long to try the Bierfabriek - great chicken, nice beer and altogether an affordable dining experience in Amsterdam! If you're like me you think chicken has no taste in this country - in fact I have stopped buying it altogether for this reason. But I will eat it at the Bierfabriek every day of the week. And make sure to load it with one of the sauces (the lighter/orangey one) - it's an American-style BBQ and the best I've had in Amsterdam! It's also for sale - needs to be refrigerated and keeps for 2 weeks. Yum!! read more

We went for an afternoon beer and snack. The beer was good. Seemed like a local happy hour joint, which was cool. We tried the bitteballen (fried sausage gravy balls?) which is apparently a local favorite appetizer, and while it was interesting, I don't think either of us liked it much. read more

Great, boisterous brewpub where the main conceit is peanuts on the tables and peanut shells everywhere. There's substance behind the style, though, with delicious microbrews, charcuterie that is guaranteed to spoil your appetite, and delicious lamb. The BBQ chicken was very good, though you have to take it on its own merits (it's not BBQ in the American southern sense). Our vegetarian did not think much of the vegan plate. read more

A perfect place to grab a beer and dinner. Peanuts everywhere and shells are dropped on the floor. It was busy this Tuesday night, with many people waiting for tables when we left at 9. We shared the roasted chicken and it was fantastic, fries are included. The only reason I didn't give it five stars--- the service is slow. I wouldn't hesitate to come again, but would arrive before 6:30 pm. read more

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The charcuterie board here is everything!!! The beers were good too. The waitress wasn't attentive and it took forever to get another drink.

stumbled upon this place while perusing thru amsterdam. we absolutely loved it, afforable beer and great chicken and great casual ambience. I just wish there was more on the menu but i guess if u got something that works you dont need it. my fav in amsterdam so far read more

Great place to get good specially brewed beers. Didn't try out the self tap but that would be nice for big groups. The food was really good as well, even though the menu isn't very big. read more

Delicious chicken and sauces were so good. Reasonably priced and conveniently located just a few minutes walk from dam square. Beer was super cheap and brewed on site read more

This place is a mixed bag for me.... Beer: 4/5 They have 3 beers. That's it. A pilsner, an amber and a porter. All three are absolutely fantastic versions of those beers. If they had 2 more choices, they'd get bumped to a 5 Food: 2/5 The snack items are pretty good, but their proper meal options are all pretty bland, and unreasonably expensive for what they are. Service: 2/5 Good luck getting anyone's attention. Half the time the folks clearing empty glasses off our table ended up taking new drink orders because no one could find our server. This all has been consistent for me the 4 times I've been there now. read more