Fantastic, spacious brewery with a wide selection of different beer types to drink. Beer tastes good, there's so much available seating and space, and they have a limited restaurant menu to make sure you don't go hungry either. Awesome!
PROS:
-Oh my god, this space is SO large and perfect. We came during Memorial Day weekend (after I spent the morning going back and forth on whether that was a good idea with the crowds) only to find that Eudora is so beautifully huge and spacious that even the holiday weekend didn't seem "cramped".
-Seating is so beautifully varied. You have the bartop seating, tons and tons of tables, indoor tables and outdoor tables, couches, and more. The only thing this place doesn't have is booths, really.
-Eudora has a bit of a focus towards environmental-friendliness. I can't tell you about all their practices, but I was impressed by their water bottle refilling fountain - and the nearby clean stacked cups. Not only does this eliminate the "single glass" water pours that bars usually do and reduce the stress on the bar staff to pour water, but you can bring your own water bottle and never have to wait in line for water!
-Beer flights are pretty darn cheap. I'd recommend starting your adventure there. As Eudora only has 12-ish beers, their six beer flight covers the vast majority of them in one go. The bartender will ask you to write down the names of your choices on a laminated paper, and you can easily reference that paper when you're back at your table.
-Line for beers ends up decently long most of the time. Since there's no table service, you pretty much get up and stand in line to get your beers whenever you want it. Staff kept up on the line most of the time, and when there was a noticeable pause, it was usually a customer holding up the line.
-Each table has a binder full of beer information. We were surprised this binder didn't include the food menu (we had to find that online), but it was really nice to have full information about each individual beer they made right at our fingertips. It made our tasting experience so much nicer to go "oh, I definitely taste the honey hints they added!" instead of guesstimating information.
-Of course, the beers are all pretty good too. I was impressed by the variety of types. If you just like Budlight, they have a beer for you. If you want the hoppiest beer known to man, they have a beer for you. Stouts? Yep. IPAs? Yep. Despite having a (relatively limit) beer selection compared to a lot of breweries, they manage to fit in SO many different beer types, and it's impressive. No matter your beer tastes, you're likely to find a beer that fits it. Their stout was so good that I wanted to take some home.
-Designated Driver? Yeah, they have some in-house-made root beer too. Didn't try it, but it sounded SO good. I love it when brewing companies have some options for the non-alcoholic too.
CONS:
-Wasn't too fond of the pretzels. I love that Eudora serves a neat "snack-ish" food menu, but I wasn't too fond of their pretzels - definitely with a crust that's way, way too rough. The included beer cheese, though, was fantastic.
-While the rest of the interior has been nicely renovated to really reflect the "brewery" (versus the old building's use), the bathrooms still could use some love. They're not dirty by any means (they're quite clean, actually!), but they feel very, very basic - and like a very different atmosphere - than the rest of the brewery.
-Eudora had some pamphlets out that advertised the Dayton brew scene. Only to find out that the information was pretty out of date and some of the included breweries were closed. Same could be said about their displayed poster from a 2018 event. Might be time to update that stuff and make sure patrons are getting good info. read more