The Seed: A Living Beer Project — Restaurant in Atlantic City

We checked this brewery out on 5/4/2024! We were in town for a concert (we live around 9 hours away). Got some of their darker ales to go (had to play it safe, more on that below…). Went back on the way out today for a glass I changed my mind on getting and a few more to-go cans.

What I got to-go (since it won’t allow pics in comments):

“Stay What You Are” - x2, “As Simple As Shadows” (Smoked) - x2, “How The World Will Be”, “Stay Awhile”, “Fiora” - I think that’s the name? It’s an Italian Pils, $10 bottle of Saison. I don’t recall the name. 3 diff glasses.

My experience and thoughts:

It’s definitely a “hole in the wall” (smaller) brewery. I was expecting a bigger space, given everything I’ve heard about it over on Reddit and elsewhere. Nothing wrong with this, of course - just expectations, lol.

I tried their “As Simple as Shadows” beer and it was AMAZING. Also tried one of their IPA’a (don’t recall the name) and it was OK. I’m not a huge IPA person, but slowly finding which styles I do like. I typically don’t like the super bitter ones or the ones that taste like a “flower garden”. Yeah, I know. I’m weird!

Staff was …OK? Not the friendliest and seemed to get irritated with my questions and asking for suggestions, based on what I like. This was based on both my experience last night and on the way out today (two diff staff members).

Brewery was super clean, including the bathrooms!

A few things threw me off:

They don’t allow tastings. They don’t do flights. They don’t do 5oz pours or anything. It’s all full pours or bust.

This doesn’t allow for any experimentation or trying new things and for me, this severely affects my decisions for what to take home. I didn’t get to sit and drink and try everything I wanted because of time limits.

I’m usually a big spender, especially if I find a brewery I like…even moreso if it’s out of state - I like to take a lot home, for myself and to share. But…given all of this…it left me with the feeling of needing to “play it safe” with the beer types I feel comfortable with. Which kinda sucks… I’d loved to have brought home something I enjoyed and don’t have a lot of, already.

Some suggestions/ideas/room for improvement (Pros/Cons):

I know they were busy. But if they could allow tastings in tiny plastic cups (like the little 1oz ones or so), that would cut back on glassware use - just toss or recycle ‘em.

Do flights - this allows guests to try a little bit of everything and not commit to a full 16oz glass and perhaps not like it. To me, if a brewery doesn’t do or offer flights, it’s immediately questionable.

The overall theme is great! The glassware is awesome, too - just wished they sold the badass glass mugs! I wouldn’t have even cared to have paid a premium for one.

I love the “Earthy” vibes and it can for sure be tasted in the beer. I can tell they use super high quality ingredients and the Shadows was the first “Smoked” beer I’ve ever had. It’s very unique and I loved it (got two packs of these!). Smoked Shadows is definitely gonna be my Elden Ring beer, when the expansion releases, haha!

Anyway, that’s my experience. Some positives, some negatives. Overall, I’d give the beers a 5 out of 5 rating (based on what few I tried) and the brewery itself a 2 out of 5.

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