Six Rivers Brewery

one of my favorite brewery around. great beer and food. best chicken wings in the county! it is extremely loud in there though is my only complaint.

We are from out of town and were looking for somewhere to drop in for lunch. Just happened to pass this time place on our way to another place and thought «hey let’s try it». Glad we did! Food was awesome… great atmosphere… great view… and some top notch beers! If you’re in the area, I highly recommend stopping in and trying the chili beer!

Full of felons. Confronted in the restroom regarding my Law Enforcement t-​shirt while I was «busy», of course. Not some place I want to take my kids.
Food ok, staff was good. Not for me. 10 – 22

We stopping in on our way home from Oregon for a quick bite and a few pints. Beer was good as I’d had it bottled before. The food was standard pub fare. The service was a bit slow took a long time to get noticed and served but after that it was ok. We would probably stop again someday.

We have had some bad service in the past but tonight, our server Kurt was on the ball!!! We had great service and excellent food. The teriyaki wings and the Bbq wings were outstanding!!! There are a lot of great micro breweries in the Humboldt area and I think Six Rivers beers are closer to the bottom of the list however the IPA is pretty good and I would recommend it with an order of wings!!!

Waited 20 minutes when they had 7 tables open and they said 5 minutes. Sad! Food very good. Service very slow…

Food was fabulous and wonderful beer to match. Server was a doll and we look forward to coming back again when we’re in the area. Great experience! Loved the deck seating as the weather couldn’t have been any better!

Estuvo mejor de lo que pensé que iba a estar este lugar, las alitas de mango con habanero (las pedimos lo mas picositas que se pudieran) y las sliders estuvieron sabrosas todo me gusto, la cerveza ni se diga pedimos unas muestras… hubo una cerveza de chile que hasta me raspó la garganta otra dulcesita de rasberry (son las que mas puedo recordar):p la atención estuvo muy bien, si recomendaría este lugar.

I want to like this place. Good, unique menus for a pub. The staff can be awesome, but last night I left my first tip less than 20% in a long time. No eye contact, totally ineffective and cold. I felt like she was thinking about the next table every time she came to serve us.
Awesome Perfect Margarita, burgers and home made pizza but the Caesar salad was droopy and came with the dressing on the side and tomatoes all for $ 12! Don’t call it a Caesar salad if it’s not one!!! They obviously make them ahead and put them in the cooler to wilt. They handle a huge volume, so maybe it just shouldn’t be on the menu.
Overall I think they work hard to provide the only decent food in Mckinleyville aside from sushi.

Don’t be this person. Blocking the view of the ocean. There’s a sign that says Compact cars only and will be asked to move but apparently The sign is a false statement. Dinned two hours and the truck remains in the same spot for most of our stay. Why have binoculars inside to view the outside when all you can see is a huge truck? Silly.
Fit nor cal beet salad is excellent. Service was great. The Beer is good. ~ cheers

Good food and beer. Our server was great and made wonderful recommendations. It was a little more spendy than I realized. We had three beers, nachos, and a quesadilla and it was $ 42.
The nachos were amazing though!

I enjoyed the local, casual feel of this place. The service was great, the food was well prepared and the ambiance was good. I like that they have a lot of big windows. Easy to get to from the freeway. I would be okay bringing kids. Overall, nice place.

We made plans to come here. The outside is deceiving to the elegance inside. The food is classy and delicious. If you like beer, this should be a «must stop» for you.
I gave it five stars because we eill definitely go back, but it does take a long time for your food, so plan a leisurely meal.
Female owned brewery, two-​thumbs up

There is limited parking and is surrounded by homes and apartments so be careful where you park. The entrance can be difficult to see from the road.
Atmosphere
The inside is typical brewpub style. It’s really loud if a band is playing.
The bar stools and chairs are hard steel and very uncomfortable.
Ticket time
This is our second time here and once again the wait staff seems overextended. The last time we received a wrong order but had waited so long for food and there was no one to check on us so we ate it anyway.
This time we ordered a special fried appetizer that came out cold. The guacamole seems like it’s prepackaged.
We ate in shifts as the meals came out at different times.
Food
The burger was good. Fresh local bakery bun and grass fed beef. They don’t get the temperatures right. Asked for medium and medium rare and received well done burgers.
Drinks
We started at the bar where the woman bartender did a great job avoiding eye contact and ignoring us until finally the guy bar tending at the other end who acknowledged all the customers came down and helped us.
The spiced martini and macadamia nut porter were delicious but can’t say the same for the momma cat stout. The temperature on the beer was a bit on the warm side.
We always give places at least 3 tries before we never return. It’s strike 2 for this place!

This place is interesting… I’ve been there three time and all three times is beer has been warm? What’s up with this? I don’t mean a little unchilled… it’s warm. Is this on purpose? Also be prepared to pay $ 14 for a burger, and wait 30 minutes for a table.
My first two meals were good, but this last visit all of our burgers and French fries were cold.
Anyway the most entertaining aspect is that’s it a major pick up joint with lots of cougars trolling about.
Here’s what I over heard in the bathroom, «so what do you think of Fred?» «Eh he’s ok, kinda meh» «what? He’s hot» «have you been there & tapped that» «no» «uh huh, he’s probably good for a booty call» «definitely» LOL!

I wanted to love this place. Although Humboldt seems known for ciders, they only had one cider on tap, and they were out of it. Had a «be back soon» label. I really feel that they should have more cider.
We tried to go on a Tuesday, and the wait was 45 minutes, so we left. We went back on a Wednesday earlier, around 5:30, and were able to get a seat right away. They are not using the space well. They could remodel. They have a tiny waiting area, despite reviews showing that WAIT is obviously an issue. We were seated in a side area that had two tables, some video games, and a pool table. KNOCK DOWN THAT WALL, and use that as the waiting area so people don’t mind waiting. People will not wait if they have to wait outside in 30 degree weather. If the pool table area had some standing cocktail tables, people would go over and order at the bat and have a drink while they wait for their table. They have a side area curtained off that they occasionally use for comedy shows and stuff. I would think on busy nights they’d use it as additional table space. Management is not doing a great job.
The food was… good. Nothing super memorable, but good. The taster price for the beers cannot be beat. Their signature cocktails are a little on the strange side.

Had dinner here on a busy Sunday night, the food and service were excellent. Good to see lots of kids there. My favorite place to eat in the area.

Stopped in after a day of travel through the Redwoods. The staff was super friendly and welcomed us in to the sixer crew real quick. Before we knew it we were tasting the beers and ordering a ton of food to satiate our hunger.
Our starter was the pretzel with some bomb dot com beer cheese dip and chili pepper ale mustard. I couldn’t stop dipping into both of them. I could literally dip my finger in either and bite it off because the dips are that good.
Up next was a pizza on special, Santa Fe, which was a California dream. It had avocado, spicy shredded chicken, cilantro, and a base of garlic Parmesan Alfredo. It basically was an angel made in the form of pizza that nestled gently on my tongue and played its melodic food harp to my soul. We also split the Emerald wings… aka crack sprinkled wings. I could not get enough of them. I ate them full tilt until my mouth could no longer feel anything from the spice. Our server also told us how to get a hold of the spicy sauce and we went the next day to get some to make at home.
To wash all this down we imbibed in the Bluff Creek Pale Ale and a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ Raspberry Lambic/​Chili Pepper Ale. I know the latter sounds like eating from the spicy ass of a raspberry but trust me, it is good. Also tried the Macadamia Nut Porter and the Pigskin Pumpkin Ale. Both of them tasted exactly as they sound except pigskin… ya that wasn’t part of the flavor profile.
This was a random find for staying in Arcata but would come back if ever in town.

Six Rivers Brewery is a great place for a beer and some food!
We sat at the bar and ordered their flight of beer and some chicken wings. I loved their flight! All the beers were served in these cute little glasses and they even garnished the wheat beer with a lemon to help bring out the favor! We enjoyed all of the beer especially some of their fruity ones. They have an awesome strawberry beer!
We ordered the spicy wings and man were they SPICY! We had a difficult time getting through them and had to keep asking for more water! They were absolutely delicious though! If you like spicy wings, these are for you!
5 stars for good beer, delicious wings and good service!

Always nice to stop here on way from Trinidad to Eureka. But… When they are slammed (as they were), it can be a wait.
No problem necessarily if you sit out on side patio. May take a while … But their summer specialty beers are wildly fabulous!
Must try the strawberry ale. Beautiful.

A recent revisit to six rivers with the new year a new review and hopefully a better experience — the hostess again sat us within a couple minutes, we were the only ones standing at the station though when we walked in — they do have that part down.
After that point though everything goes into slow motion — ten minutes for initial server contact — fifteen minutes to get a beer — on and on… I would understand this slow pace of service if the place was packed — it was not.
I have learned as well, on other visits, you receive better quality service sitting at the bar — why it is always packed with locals (they know this too) — tired to get a seat there, there were none, so off to table service limbo I went — this was my mistake.
I will give them credit — I saw more effort on some on the staff members part — the greeter hostess and the bus boy, but for the most part the staff seem disjointed, and completely out of sync. 15 + minutes to get two draft beers at a draft beer pub? Really?!?
I still stand with my previous review.
Go for the beer it’s okay — the food still feels like an after thought.
Ordered hot wings, pizza and tater tots and after waiting almost 25 minutes just to order we asked her to make our food to go. All told it took a little under an hour from when we walked in to when we walked out with our to go order. Not bad, but not great…
The pizza was good, the wings okay and the tater tots plentiful. Not a bad experience but again nothing memorable enough to make it a oh yeah let’s go back next week experience.
I do stop in here, usually just for a beer as it is close to my home — best advice sit at the bar — go for the beer — the food is just okay — you’re taking your chances sitting at a table as to how long it will take for you to get waited on, complete your meal, drinks, visit…
Just average 2 ½ stars — rounded up for seeing a little improvement — not great by a long shot and still has a long way to go to earn a fourth or fifth star.