Ponysaurus Brewing

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Overall 4.4/5

 

  • High Chairs - NO
  • Changing Tables - Both Bathrooms
  • Alcohol - Craft beer & Wine
  • Food - Snacks by the scoop only
  • Kids Menu - NO
  • Activities - Large, mostly fenced grass area, movie screen
  • Staff Kid Friendly - yes
  • Patrons Kid Friendly - yes
  • Dog Friendly - yes, outside only

 

Good to Know

  • Outdoor and Indoor available, but outdoor area more kid friendly
  • picnic tables only, little red chair friendly
  • Water misters running outside, great for hot days

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Wicked Weed

Wicked Weed

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Overall 3.5/5**

  • Outside and Inside
  • High Chairs & Booster Seats
  • Changing Tables both bathrooms
  • Alcohol - TONS of beer, draft and bottles, wine & cocktails
  • Food - Good, full menu
  • Kids Menu - No
  • Activities - None
  • Staff Kid Friendly - Tolerant
  • Patrons Kid Friendly - Tolerant
  • Dog Friendly - Extremely

Good to Know

  • Outside area has large corner with fire pit that is mostly fenced and great for running around

**This is purely a rating with kids, this place is really great without kids

Abridged Beer Co.

Abridged Beer Company

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Overall 3/5**

  • Outside best but inside available
  • High Chairs - no
  • Changing Tables - Women's bathroom
  • Alcohol - Draft beer (in house bottled)
  • Food - Great small menu with burger specials
  • Kids Menu - no
  • Activities - small kids shelf inside with toys that can be taken outside
  • Staff Kid Friendly - yes
  • Patrons Kid Friendly - some yes, some no
  • Dog Friendly - outside

Good to Know

  • No smoking allowed!
  • outside area had 3 unfenced corners

**This is purely a rating with kids, this place is really great without kids

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Round 6 – Full Review

I love a good brewery and Round 6 does not disappoint!!

I have driven past this place a million times and seen the little beer garden lights and always been super curious, so we finally decided to check it out.

Round 6 is slightly hard to find, even though you can see it from Alcoa Highway, you have to turn on like 3 side streets to actually get to the parking.  I advise phones GPS, as always….I actually don’t know how I’d live without it.

We walked into a super empty bar (like 4 people) with zero kids and were at first thinking we would grab a beer and head on, and probably wouldn’t bother adding to the website…boy were we wrong!!  

This was in the corner of the bar

I’m pretty nothing says bring your kid to the bar like a corner dedicated to them!

Also in the bar is the magical popcorn machine!  The popcorn is free, fun for kids to watch and my son may or may not have eaten 7 bowls of it...hey, it was Friday.

Connected to the bar area is a porch that has a railing on all sides but the stairs.  There are tons of picnic tables and this adorable little fake grass area with tiny Adirondack chairs. 

The grass area has only one side unfenced and it’s super easy to keep tiny humans wrangled.  Bonus, the chairs are plastic and really lightweight and fun/easy for kids to move around without anyone getting their toes smashed.  

A food truck (or more like a food cart) showed up around 4/4:30 and had great food that everyone loved.  The bartender said there is always a food truck by 5. 

There is also a charcuterie board available that we meant to try, but honestly drank beer instead and forgot.

We ate on the little porch and then headed down to the big beer garden.

The beer garden area is across the parking lot and down a ramp.  This giant area has a somewhat covered section with tables, an enclosed bacce court, a large fake grass area and a surrounding parking lot.  Also a little stage for bands. 

There was tons of construction going on, so I’m not sure how much things will change.  The owner told me that they are working on building an enclosed dog park area next to the beer garden, which will be fantastic. 

As for dogs, there were tons.  I actually met the biggest St Bernard I have ever seen at 201lbs!!  (I seriously could not stop hugging him)

This picture does not do justice to the massiveness of this creature

At 3:30 on a Friday we were close to the only people there.  But by 6:30, there was a band playing, lots of grown ups (but not too many) and at least 15 kids running around like lunatics.  We were so caught off guard by how fun Round 6 would be, that we had showed up around 3:30 and planned to leave by dinner, and instead ended up inviting friends and staying until almost 9pm!  This may have been the latest my kids have ever stayed up (I’m a little crazy about early bedtimes).  But all the kids were having so much fun, and so were we!  We just couldn’t make ourselves leave.  

Oh, and about the beer…the beer is MAGICAL.  They make everything, have tons of options on draft and everything we tried was so good.  Growlers are supposed to be available soon.

The only draw backs to Round 6 are that you have to walk a ways to get your beers from the main bar as beer is not currently served in the beer garden (I know, walking 50 feet is not that big of a deal).  Also, smoking is allowed in the outside areas and as a parent, this always bothers me.  

 

Round 6 Brewing

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Rating 4.6/5

  • Outdoor mostly, small inside bar with kid corner
  • High Chairs - No
  • Changing Tables - Men's & Women's Bathrooms
  • Alcohol - Lots of great rotating draft beers
  • Food - 1 food truck a day in the evening
  • Kids Menu - No
  • Activities - Inside kids corner, free popcorn machine, small porch with fake grass area with kid chairs, tons of room to run, bacce, corn hole
  • Staff Kid Friendly - tolerant
  • Patrons Kid Friendly - very
  • Dog Friendly - yes in outside areas

Good to Know

  • Bands play in the evenings

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