Nocterra Brewing’s new taproom and restaurant, years within the making, is lastly open subsequent to the Scioto Audubon Metro Park! The 5000-square-foot area encompasses a full kitchen, predominant eating room, area for barrel-aging, and a mezzanine degree with a secondary bar.
The principle taproom and bar options storage doorways that open onto a 50-seat, dog-friendly patio that faces the park.
The lengthy bar options Nocterra’s acquainted moth branding. Off to the suitable you’ll see the espresso machine – very quickly they’ll open early for espresso service, pouring Jennings Java roasts.
Nocterra is opening with 20 home beers on faucet, starting from lagers to IPAs, saisons to wheat beers, sours to barrel-aged stouts.
Because it was my inaugural go to to the brewery, I opted for 10 ounces of their Beta Flash New England IPA.
Heading up the kitchen is chef Chris Alexa, who brings his expertise with 101 Beer Kitchen and Boston’s Trillium Brewing.
Chef Chris has pulled collectively a menu that goes past the brewpub staples.
We began out with an order of the ancho chicarrons, very crispy and properly seasoned.
The potato and cheese croquettes had been one other winner, served with a guajillo aioli. We ordered a second spherical of them!
Don’t skip out on the Indo cauliflower.
Or the splendidly seasoned labneh with sun-dried tomatoes, sumac, za’tar, crushed pistachios.
Or the lentil hummus with paprika, toasted sesame, and a black garlic Aleppo scallion oil.
The asada tacos had a great taste, though the blue corn tortillas had been just a little powerful, and I feel it wanted a contact extra acid or cream to spherical it out.
The Korean fried rooster sandwich is terrific, utilizing a rooster thigh and flavoring it with gochujang, kimchi aioli, and pickled slaw.
And even in the event you favor a extra conventional burger along with your beer, the Nocterra burger is a more-than-worthy entry.
I completed off with a five-ounce pour of the Path Break lager. I recognize which you can order beers in 5-, 10-, or 16-ounce drafts.
The mezzanine degree options much more seating, plus a full bar with 20 faucets of beer. It needs to be famous that Nocterra additionally gives seltzers, ciders, non-alcoholic beers from Particular Results, cocktails, and wine.
Consistent with their open air theme, Nocterra’s area is related to Bloc Garten mountain climbing gymnasium. There’s an entrance from the principle eating room into the gymnasium, and home windows on the mezzanine allow you to look inside it, too.
This huge new area additionally permits Nocterra to develop its barrel-aging program. They wanted to prioritize area at their authentic Powell brewery for fermentation tanks, however now they’re in a position to shift barrels to Audubon. Anticipate to see the rows of barrels develop over the months and years.
Along with neighboring Bloc Garten, Nocterra’s new location sits throughout from the Scioto Audubon Metro Park, with quick access to bike trails, the climbing wall, and nature middle.
Nocterra’s Audubon location is open:
- Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m
- Friday-Saturday, 7 a.m. to midnight
- Sunday, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Nocterra Brewing Audubon
516 Maier Place
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 896-8000
Net: nocterrabrewing.com/audubon-taproom-kitchen
FB: Nocterra Brewing at Audubon
IG: @nocterraaudubon
