Seneca Lake Brewing Company & The Beerocracy British Pub — Restaurant in Town of Reading

Terrible on multiple levels - beer, customer service, and the taproom condition.

The beer is clearly contaminated, with a hefe, neipa, and golden all tasting sour, so infected. It's completely unacceptable.

For the record, I'm British living in the US, and I am very familiar with Cask, a member of CAMRA, and regular attendee at cask festivals. This is a poor representation of cask beer, and no matter what serving style, whether keg or cask, this is just bad beer.

As for customer service, we walked in and said 'hey how are you?' and the British guy grunted and put his head down. Then were told that they had closed the kitchen, more than 30 min before closing, despite their website saying that the kitchen was open until 7pm, and there was a sign outside saying that the kitchen was open.

The taproom itself is dark and smelly, and it looks nothing like a decent pub from my home country.

All in all, this is a pathetic excuse for a brewery and, frankly, should be shut down for its dodgy infected beer.

Oh, good view of the lake, though. See pictures.

[Edit - The owner has subsequently left a response on my wife's review calling her "abrasive" which is a complete lie, and frankly sexist and racist to say to a woman of colour who made a friendly 'hello how are you' on entering the brewery. I guess he thinks that woman...

We stopped for dinner after checking out their website, it looked like they had a great menu. The place had a cool entryway. As we walked in we were greeted by a very nice bar tender, when she saw our children, told us that the kitchen was closed due to them not having a chef. I get that, but there should have been some notice on the website as the food options are pretty far apart right around there, even a sign outside. As of me writing this, there is now a notice on the website, but I only saw that on my computer, not my phone. She did suggest a place up the road but we just ended up going into town. I love beer and was excited to try what they had to offer. I was let down on their hefeweizen, it was warm and flat. My wife ordered something not beer - maybe some bubbly wine, again, flat, no bobbles and warm. I was curious about the "glamping" they offer for $175 per night so I walked around the property. It's a big tent on a platform with a large bed in it. If I booked that, there was no food options due to a closed kitchen, and the beer was bad, I'd be mad. I'm an avid camper and I would not spend $175 a night for that. There is only one tent, so you can't even camp with friends. It's really a shame that a place like that has so much potential to be super cool can't live up to what...

Unfortunately, the experience left much to be desired. I am local and have been here before a few years ago and decided to get it another try with some friends. When we walked in there was only two or three people inside and two people behind the bar, we were not greeted, We sat down at the bar, and again we’re not acknowledged. we decided on our drinks but the waitstaff seemed as if they did not have the ingredients for their own menu items and The menu did not reflect the ingredients of the drinks they gave us, our drinks were extremely water down. I had to return mine but my friend decided to keep hers because she said she didn’t want to drink that much anyways and what she got was just like drinking watery juice. Even though there were less than 20 people in the entire building the staff seemed very frazzled. We ended up having to stand because all of the outdoor seating was extremely Wibbly wobbly, There was confusion with our bill but was eventually settled. The folks were nice enough, but it was not a welcoming environment. The live musician was very talented but we will not be...