04/24/09

great beer and chow

by britbeerswigger

i visited a while ago and sampled many beers.....to my delight they were really good, apart from being served chilled as us brits like our warm beer...marstons pedigree and bass pale ale are brewed on my doorstep in burton on trent, england..so i know a good beer when i taste one or two...my aim before i go back to blighty is to sample as many brews in all the brewerys in tucson, ready for when i move here in time for xmas....cheers !!

• Pros: some damn good beer and clam chowder
• Cons: I'm only here for another week

12/06/07

beerreviewnumberonemyass

by nik76

it is so obvious that beerreview1 works for nimbus, it makes me ill. and so does nimbus beer. the end

10/13/07

Maybe the worst excuse for a brewery EVER!

by beerreview1

Where is the brewery? It's not there. The beer is brewed off site at a location now called Barrio Brewing. This place is an old run down dirty hut and the beer taste like the place looks too. The food at the location where they brew their beer is impossible to stomach. I review breweries professionally for a living and seldom do I run across one so poorly put together with no positives to write about. This place takes the cake and so does their University location known as Gentle Ben's! NOT AT ALL RECOMMENDED! Only a bum would go to eat and drink there but I don't believe they would work for the food or beer.

• Pros: Available locations for eating and drinking elsewhere
• Cons: Beer, Food, Service, Location Sanitation, etc...

11/06/06

A Pleasant Sunday Afternoon

by lt2

On a pleasant Sunday afternoon in September, just after the college crew arrived, my Wife & I went to Tuscon, took a walk, rode the trolley and at the dead head a passenger asked "Where can I get a cold beer?" The Motorman pointed towards a non descript brick building. It was Gentle Ben's.

We went in, sat down at the bar, were greeted and served promptly & pleasantly. The place was empty!

The ales were very good! I had some IPA, the Heffe & the stout. We also had a snack, which was excellant and the menu looked good.

Micro brews are an acquired taste.....so the Bud, Bud Lite, etc, etc, etc people generally do not like them.

Cannot attest to anything else but my visit was very good and I will be back, even though it is almost 2 hours from home, where Texas based Shiner Heffeweizen is called an imported beer!

• Pros: Good ale!
• Cons: Location

10/20/06

Good beer

by paigeflag

The beers they make are good. The food leaves little to rave about and the service isn't the greatest. Stay away from this place anytime during weekend.

• Pros: Beer
• Cons: Nothing else is that good

07/13/06

Amazing Beer, Great Food

by kcv1974

I am not sure where the other reviewers went, but this place has been a long time favorite of mine. The beer is really good and there is a lot of variety, I have to say the same for the menu. The service is good and the atmoshpere is casual. The only reason people may not like this place is if they are used to Budweiser or Miller beer and McDonald's food. As a long time fan of Microbrews (and food) I feel that Gentle Ben's is certainly worth checking out!

• Pros: Beer & food
• Cons: Parking since it's near the U of A

06/24/06

I wish I would have read the reviews before I went!

by beertaster2000

Don't waste your time or your money in this place, You will be doing yourself a favor. The beer is about the worst I've ever had and the food is not much better.

• Pros: Leaving the Place
• Cons: Going in there in the first place.

01/24/06

Upchuck Yuk!

by worldclassbeerman

What positive can be said for this place and its beer? Upchuck Yuck! Quite possibly the worst place that claims to be a brewer of beers. Far from it, not worth it, DON"T GO THERE, you will end up regretting it. I did.

• Pros: There is not , any more places, like this anywhere!
• Cons: Beer, Food, Atmosphere

02/01/05

If its for the beer forget it.

by wedonotsow

Gentle Ben's re-opened at its new location some years ago and has never recovered. The beer is, as the previous reviewers state, below recommendation. Food and service depends on when you go, 11:15 AM in a nice sunny winter day outside on the patio? A pleasant experience. 1 hours later when you have to be seated in the foul smelling, awful looking interior and you are in for disappointment all around.

• Pros: downstairs patio
• Cons: upstairs bar, interior smell, beer

08/21/04

This Place Needs Work In the Worst Way!

by beer_meister

I think this place is supposidly a college bar? A Micro- brewery? A Food Serving Establishment? None of which they do well. For a college Bar it is booring. For a Microbrewery, they should give it up because it is by far the worst microbrew beer in Arizona. I was told by one of their servers "the beer was fairly good three or four years ago, but the owner ran off the only good brewer the place ever had and the problem with the beer served today was Gentle Ben's has been through three brewers in less than a year due to the owner and that was why the beer was not so good" Well I say to them "OUIT BREWING UNTIL YOU GET IT RIGHT!" And finally the food could be much better. I don't thik I would return to this place and would not recommend it to anyone!