Ocean City Brewing Company

We went here for dinner after the day on the beach. I was so impressed! We got the short rib mac and cheese- it was a large portion with lots of short rib and it was delicious! The service was great, the beer options were interesting, and there was an interesting cocktail list for the non beer drinkers. Would highly recommend!
5 7 years ago (07-06-2018)

Expected mediocrity, got even worse. Also I find it strange that all the previous reviews are now missing, since a few weeks ago there were many more. Our visit was on Monday, August 7th, 2017 around 5pm. I have to say, I didn't go in expecting much, since the trend is typically that good breweries stay small and focus on quality, and as they grow, advertise, add a restaurant, etc, the quality suffers. So I went in expecting decent (not amazing) beer, decent food, and okay service, and with that, I would have been sufficiently satisfied and rated it 4 stars. Beer: The beer was not good. There were four of us - all of whom are seasoned craft beer drinkers and all of whom are NOT picky. We decided to try one of every beer, sample sizes. Our intention was to find the favorites then order full pints; this never happened. Each beer was barely good, some so undrinkable we joked about who had to suffer through finishing. Let me stress, we love beer, craft beer, and have a wide ranging tastes. These beers just are not good. Service: it took 20 minutes for us to get the first two glasses of water. The place WAS NOT busy at all. It took about 20 more minutes after that to get beer. After that, our service was better. Food: the food was very sub-par. We ordered three apps, mozzarella sticks (average), boneless chicken strips which were literally inedible, burnt to a crisp, then doused with sauce likely in hopes we wouldn't notice. The third app never arrives. The meals were also very below average. The island surf bowls were mainly rice, very skimpy with the toppings and sauce. Nothing special here. The guys got the fish tacos, decent at best. My boyfriend's seven year old loved his hot dog. Not too hard to please a kid. Other: the roof was leaking onto us while it rained and the server just looked up and shrugged it off. They didn't even put a bucket under it. This place is not worth the stop and is way overpriced for what you get in return. Save your money and appetite for somewhere else, and if you want good craft beer, there are plenty of smaller breweries around the are that haven't forgotten about maintaining quality.
1 7 years ago (03-06-2018)

This place is some ass. I love the 20%gratuity added to every check even when only 4 people in the party. Must be why everything took an obscene amount of time. Our server disappeared for what seemed like hours at a time. Crab dip might as well be picked by you since the shells might as well make you choke. Oh and the beer wasn't even cold .
1 7 years ago (06-05-2018)

This place used to be great. It’s under new management now. They only had 3 or 4 of their own beers on tap (they used to have at least 8-10) and the first beer I got tasted like ass. My kid got chicken strips off the kids menu and only one was edible. The other two were like chewing rubber. My burger was $17 dollars and was supposed to be medium but it was so burnt it tasted like I was eating charcoal. The only good thing we had were the egg rolls. Everything else including their beer was overpriced and mediocre. Really sad to see it go so downhill considering this used to be my go to spot in OCMD.
1 7 years ago (27-05-2018)

Felt like i was developing Alzheimers from how long the food took even though we only saw 4 other people in the restaurant. Water has a crappy taste like they reuse the plastic cups. waitress delivered my stir fry bowl with no silverware, realized how bad of a waiter she was, said shed be back with silverware. I then saw her take orders from 3 tables. I ended up waking to the bar to get silverware and they dont have spoons. This place is great to go if you hate food.
1 7 years ago (26-05-2018)