Pour Taproom: Knoxville — Restaurant in Knoxville

I had heard about this company that was doing self serve taps that use an bracelet with a chip to open the tap a few years ago. Unfortunately none were in my area to check out. So when I saw a bar in Knoxville had the system, I said let's check it out. First the bar is in an old warehouse type building with a great brick exterior, exposed beams and high ceilings inside. There is plenty of seating outside for those beautiful days. The inside has tables but set up more to be social tables. So the first thing you need to do is go to the counter and check in. Tennessee has this crazy law where they have to check everyone's ID, even your grandmother's. That was fine because we needed our bracelets. Joy, I think that was her name, explained how it all worked. She even took us to the taps and explained it. The range of beers was great. They had wine on tap that you could get also. Everything is charged by the ounce. You could create you own flight as you went or filler up. Once you hit a total of 28 ounces, you had to go back to the desk to get them to unlock more. That is how they control someone not getting to smashed. The biggest piece to this is there is no waiting for the bartender or waitress getting you a beer, you are your own bartender. They do have food. We looked at the menu on line before heading down. It did not match complete when we got there. That was ok because they still had some great selections. I had the Mambo Italiano. It a few different meats on a rosemary focaccia bread and grilled with some Zacks Voodoo chips. For fun there were different boxes games to grab and play, an electronic dart board and great conversation. There was a calendar of different things going on different days. They also had a stage for live music on some nights. It was a great time and I...

It was a really cool experience, quite nice to be able to try so many different beverages and self serve. The problem is that it was far too expensive and despite the owners protestation, at least some of the machines do not pour accurate quantities. +$40 for 2.5 ish drinks, is absurd price. Should we patronize this establishment again (as we had desired to prior to the bill and quantity discrepancies) we would be bringing a measuring cup. The owner seemed like a nice enough chap but was offended(none was intended) that the calibration would be questioned as though we were daring to impune his honor (casino's have always tampered as often as possible) these devices certainly round up. Had there been a measuring device to validate the legitimacy, our group wouldn't feel so cheated. It was also annoying the wrist bands had a "2 drink limit" and yet that calibration was off as well as I had to have the wrist band reloaded an additional 2 times for a total of 2.5 drinks and the others had to have 2-3 reloads for 2-3 drinks.

They did have some fun group games and fun atmosphere. I'm sure this company will be successful. Though it would gain more traction with more reasonable pricing and the...

I wasn’t going to leave a review because I generally like this place, but I called to let them know that I believed one of their wines may have turned as it gave me food poising the night before (I only had 8oz total to drink and 4 were of that wine which cause major cramping, diarrhea, and vomiting). It smelled odd and tasted weird and my friend who worked at a winery for several years in California told me that type of wine should never smell like that (they were there in person to smell as well). I, being an idiot, still drank it (because I already bought it) which is why I was not calling to complain and when I asked if they had traded it out and called to warn them it may have turned I was told it wasn’t likely and there were too many variables. Not once was was my experience considered and I felt like the problem wasn’t really addressed. If you go here I would stay away from the wines!! (Also doesn’t take much to go “I’m sorry you had an unpleasant experience we will work to see what may have...