Eugene City Brewery

When I saw that this place was a Rogue Ale Public House, I begged my boyfriend and one of our friends to take me while I was in town. I was pretty disappointed. My friend loved it, my boyfriend and I were not impressed. First of all, all the beef is labeled "Kobe beef." I highly doubt it's real Kobe beef, because the taste quality is not there. As of September 2012, Kobe beef IS exported to the United States, but the menu was obviously old, so who knows how long they were charging high prices with lower quality meat. I ordered a taco salad because the menu is limited and generally unappealing. It was not the best. I ate it to be polite because the waitress raved about it.

The inside leaves a lot to be desired. There are holes in the booths, the inside is drab. I was here when a Duck's game was on and the place was desolate. I was surprised because I thought it would be hopping. The hazelnut ale I ordered also did not taste fresh. It tasted rather disgusting. I pawned it off on my friend.

We joined the Rogue club with blank cards. I haven't tried to use it, but it looks like other reviews state that it's not even worth trying. I don't think we'll be returning. I feel like the Northwest has better public houses and breweries to frequent.

Delicious kobe beef burgers and Caesar salad. We had a great experience with a waitress from U of O.

This establishment, over the course of two years, has inspired more hatred in me than any other business I can remember in my entire life. There's the time when they denied my gluten-free friend his free Rogue Nation birthday drink because there were no ciders on tap. There's the time they denied me my birthday drink because I didn't have my blank Rogue nation card, which has been blank for two years because they've never had a working printer and they refuse to consult a customer database to confirm my membership, despite the fact that I've given them all my valuable personal marketing information. There's the idiotic signs on the bathroom doors. There's the fact that no server has ever been bothered to make eye contact with anyone at my table more often than once every half-hour. There's every single food item I've ever ordered, which has been absolute sh***se, . There's the fact that a single pint of the flagship Dead Guy, ordered _from the Rogue brewpub_, costs $5.75, which is out-of-this-world expensive by Oregon standards. There's the fact that there are no beer style descriptions or prices to be found anywhere in the bar or on any menus.

Rogue's marketing department is run by Nike people, and it shows. Every single aspect of the Rogue Pub is designed to shout, "Eff you!" and vacuum money out of the pockets of anyone who is not a regular customer intimately familiar with their staff and their entire offering of mediocre beers. There is a reason this place is always empty except for the hardcore alcoholics who grace the bar area. No one who goes here is ever tempted to return, except for their birthday, and even then it's usually a fight to the death to get the free stuff you're so cheerily promised when you sign up for Rogue Nation.

You can get a good craft brew for a good price from a smart establishment on practically any corner in Eugene. Rogue has somehow managed to distinguish itself from the rest of the city's offerings by being relentlessly predatory and extortionate to every customer that walks through its doors. They might be able to market elsewhere in the country, but they sure can't win any fans in their own backyard--and that's the sign of a company that's insubstantial and rotten to the core. If you're in Eugene and you like beer and you have self-respect, go to Sixteen Tons, go to the Bier Stein, go to Highlands, go to any restaurant, but for Pete's sake don't go to the Rogue.