2/5 Dean M. 5 months ago on Google • 191 reviews
My
wife
and
I
were
in
Port
Royal
visiting
Shellring
Ale
Works
(excellent!)
and
we
decided
to
detour
over
to
Bluffton
and
visit
Southern
Barrel
because
my
wife
is
a
big
fan
of
their
Wild
Bramble
sour.
I’m
trying
to
be
a
little
sympathetic
in
my
review
because
clearly
something
was
amiss
with
the
staff.
My
wife
is
allergic
to
strawberries
and
when
she
asked
our
waiter
if
two
of
the
fruited
beers
had
strawberry
he
responded,
“I
don’t
know,
and
I
doubt
anyone
else
here
knows
either.”
Then
we
overheard
the
bartender
tell
another
patron
in
response
to
their
question,
“I
don’t
know.
I
don’t
really
drink
beer.”
Both
of
these
responses
fail
for
a
response
when
you
are
a
local
brewery.
Also
we
were
sitting
close
enough
to
the
kitchen
to
see
that
they
were
on
the
verge
of
a
mutiny.
Two
kitchen
staff
walked
out
while
we
were
there.
I
get
that
restaurants
have
bad
days.
I
just
couldn’t
tell
if
our
waiter
was
moving
around
with
frantic
understaffed
energy,
if
scattered
energy
is
just
his
vibe,
or
if
he
was
disinterested.
At
one
point
I
needed
more
napkins
and
when
he
brought
them
over
he
never
even
broke
stride
as
he
dropped
them
on
our
table.
My
biggest
hurdle
with
this
visit
is
that
the
location
lacked
any
of
the
atmosphere
you
would
expect
from
a
local
brewery.
It
felt
like
an
Applebee’s
or
TGIFridays
or
BJs
or
any
other
generic
chain
restaurant
that
happens
to
have
their
own
beer
on
tap.
My
fried
chicken
sandwich
lacked
flavor
and
had
so
much
sodium
that
it
could
have
eradicated
all
the
slugs
in
a
10
mile
radius.
My
wife’s
sandwich
was
missing
ingredients,
but
with
everything
we
could
see
going
on
in
the
kitchen
and
our
waiter
fluctuating
between
rushing
around
the
restaurant
and
checking
his
phone,
there
was
no
way
we
were
going
to
risk
sending
it
back
to
get
it
fixed.
At
the
end
of
the
day,
I’m
just
disappointed
that
I
spent
$60
on
such
a
lackluster
lunch.
We
were
trying
to
show
some
love
to
a
local
brewery
that
makes
a
beer
we
like,
but
it
just
felt
very
corporate.
We’ll
still
enjoy
Wild
Bramble
when
we
see
it
out
but
there’s
no
draw
for
us
to
return
here.
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