Good Robot Brewing Co

So excited they have the pub space open now — a great comfy cozy spot to come with friends and try the delightful brews on tap. The enthusiasm of the owners is endearing, and I love the funky décor inside, including the awesome booth-​style double-​seaters at the bar — perfect for chit chat time with your friend or date. Ask for a sample to try a couple of beers before making your choice. I’m impressed with the prices on craft beer brewed on site as well. Looking forward to seeing continued snack and food options as well. Keep it up, guys!

The guys at Good Robot are one of a trio of North End craft breweries. Where North Brewery has the whole zero-​carbon thing going, Unfiltered has the whole beer-​grognard thing going these guys are we just wanna have fun brewery. I mean they have a beer called «Goseface Killah», and one of their suggested beer pairings with their APA is «losing ¾ games and banding your softball team together in the finals and clinching third place»; I’m paraphrasing but you get the idea. The storefront is an industrial garage door. Staff are laid back and knowledgeable about their product. I love, love that they offer samples and wish the other micro brews would do the same. I always like to try before I buy. However, one of the biggest things that IMPRESSES ME is that THEY DON’T KNOCK OTHER LOCAL BREWERIES. I’ve been in the store several times when staff have directed new customers to the other local breweries and recommended their products. It’s nice to see. I love the local support– it would be too easy to bash the other guys as competition. It says good things about the future of the NS Craft Brew as an industry.
Now on to their beer; the guys are all over the map when it comes to style of beer they brew. While the other breweries are following the American West coast brewing scene with hops-​heavy IPAs Good Robot is trying brews like a German Gose which is a fantastic Summer brew and a Kentucky corn beer. Their Tom Waits Imperial stout is great in the cooler weather and the last few batches I’ve tried are an improvement from even a few months ago. I would like to cellar a batch but I can’t hold off drinking it.
I haven’t been to their taproom but with offerings from GR and other local micro brews I look forward to trying it.

Stopped in on our way home from the Forum Market on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Staff at the storefront encouraged us to sit and try the beers in the newly opened tap room. The tap room is a great new space with super comfy bar stools. The bartender was enthusiastic to sample and explain the house-​made beer $ 6.50 and those from local breweries $ 7.50. The Good Robot porter and stout were stand outs. The only bummer was that the rough underside of the bar snagged my pants.

Great beers — the most interesting east of Montréal and north of southern Maine, in my opinion. I generally go for their Gose, but all that I’ve tasted have been great and I look forward to trying other new releases. Very friendly people, and a pleasant location. As well, the taproom is a welcome addition to the north end. I found staff there to be very welcoming, and the design very good.

A hidden north end treasure! Staff are super welcoming and nice, the beers are all top notch, though I’ve only tried the stout and APA (the APA is honestly one of my favourite beers now — citrusy and the hops aren’t overpowering), I’ll be back to try more.
They’re also opening up a taproom soon! This could be a really cool spot to chill and have a beer.

Just visiting from Seattle and was steered to HFXs north end to check out craft brewing. Not disappointed. The Gose was spot on, with nice herbal and floral notes, and the stout was nice and malty with great hop rounding. Not a fan of corn in beer, so the Kentucky Common was ‘meh’. I suppose if you want a craft version of mass-​produced beer… but why? The APA had a familiar hop flavor and mouthfeel to the IPAs out west. Nicely done. Super nice help on Saturday AM, too. I’d come back for more of the Gose and stout.

Was invited to check this place out via an unofficial Unilocal event on a rainy Tuesday in July. Never heard of the place prior, but that may be because I am not a huge beer drinker. However, I don’t turn down anything that has free samples! My partner and I were the first to arrive around 7:20 and since the place is still under major construction, we weren’t sure if we had gotten our information wrong. We stood under an awning for a few minutes until someone else arrived. We were invited inside to the little retail space that is temporarily set up until the tap room itself is complete. You can buy merchandise or growler of beer to go here, and they have good hours to just stop in and grab one if you’re walking by any day of the week. One of the very friendly young owners basically started handing us out craft samples immediately. For what the place was lacking is preparation, it made up for in beer! The four they have on tap at the moment were all good… with my favorite being their Goseface Killah. I’m not going to get into describing them because again, I am not a huge beer drinker. But their stout, APA and lager all went down easily and with a lot of flavor. Our group of about a dozen were taken in to have a tour of the facility and hear the standard brewing process. Sorry that I forget the guy’s name who chatted with us the whole time, but he knows who he is if he’s reading this, and we are really looking forward to coming back here when the place opens fully. Fingers crossed the tap room will be ready in October and the outdoor courtyard area next spring!

I realize the last thing a manly beer brew place wants to be is cute. But Good Robot is so cute! The Robot logo might as well have little heart stink lines coming off of it, it’s that dang cute. Set back off Robie St. tucked between two buildings is where you’ll find the business, and by business I mean the nuts and bolts of the operations. The biz-​ness. My personal favourite brew is the Goseface Killah, which you can get on tap at all the cool places around town, you know where I’m talking about. It’s so popular they were all out that weekend so I opted for a grunter of Burban Legend, citrus American pale ale. It was also top-​shelf. They were so friendly and let us sample all the different beer they brew there before I made my decision, of course super knowledgeable and passionate about their beer. We got a nice intro to each kind they offer.