This, our second meeting at Zot, was overall fairly disappointing. First of all, they didn’t open “Upstairs at Zot” because the bartended called out sick. This is disappointing for a couple of reasons. I am a fan of Zot’s beer list, but I was looking forward to $5 American craft draughts. Instead, I paid $7-$10 for their imported bottles. Also I feel the atmosphere “Upstairs” is more suitable for a beer club meeting. Sitting downstairs would have acceptable except that they were short staffed and under supplied. It took longer than usual to get a beer and they appeared to be out of stock for many of their beers. While it may be that our members were choosing the most popular beers on the list and that’s why they were out, but it seemed to me that they didn’t have roughly half their menu. What’s the point of having a beer list of over 100 if you are only going to have 50 of them? Thursday night should not be night where this should happen. It is the unofficial start of the weekend and they should be fully stocked.
It’s not all negative - we did have decent turn out, picking up a random member, Sean Duffy, and having 2 first timers show up.
If anyone had a particularly delicious or atrocious beer at Zot, feel free to share it. It would be nice to get some discussions/debates going. Post it as a comment.
Take Care and Keep Drinking,
Joe