Jeff K.
Yelp
I have been a fan of Young Blood beers for awhile now and even run into one of the owners at local establishments from time to time..
Our first visit to the actual Young Blood building left me a little sad. It's October and yet they're quite heavy on the sours and IPA's. Maybe that's what you guys strive to be, but there's a season for IPAs, and there's a season for dark ambers, porters, and stouts. I think there was one or two non-pale ales/IPAs on the entire list, which is fine if you're a warm weather state, but Wisconsin is not, and beer styles need to change a bit with the seasons here. I will say that everything we drank was tasty, but I could've gone for a brown ale or a rich dark porter. If you want to stick to your guns and be IPA heavy, that's fine, but if I go into a beer bar in November, I'm going to be picking something other than IPAs, in general.
Letdown #2.. when seated, the beer lists are kind of hard to read from a distance and your only way to see them without getting up is by scanning the QR code and getting the list on your phone, which is fine, but 1. Cell service sucks in their building and 2. The guest wifi was broken. When I told the bar manager, he kinda shrugged. Rebooting the access point may have been a quick fix.
I do like that their merch is affordable and cool, and we bought a couple items while we were there.
Still love Young Blood!