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 house includes a full kitchen, major eating room, house 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 best 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 a bit of powerful, and I feel it wanted a contact extra acid or cream to spherical it out.
The Korean fried hen sandwich is terrific, utilizing a hen thigh and flavoring it with gochujang, kimchi aioli, and pickled slaw.
And even should you choose a extra conventional burger together 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 admire you could 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 presents seltzers, ciders, non-alcoholic beers from Particular Results, cocktails, and wine.
Consistent with their outside theme, Nocterra’s house is linked to Bloc Garten mountain climbing fitness center. There’s an entrance from the primary eating room into the fitness center, and home windows on the mezzanine allow you to look inside it, too.
This large new house additionally permits Nocterra to broaden its barrel-aging program. They wanted to prioritize house at their authentic Powell brewery for fermentation tanks, however now they’re in a position to shift barrels to Audubon. Count on 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 easy accessibility 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
