Hanovers Draught Haus

I swear I can smell the foul stench as I drive by this place.
It is such a dive. Would be better if it burned down and they had to rebuild it.

My cousin was playing here one night, my sister and I wanted to go see him play. My sister and I called up here to see if this place allowed kids, since we looked it up and saw there is a playground in the back. The person on the phone didn't even know there was a band playing that night even though we could here one playing in the background on the phone. THE PERSON ON THE PHONE SAID THIS PLACE WAS KID FRIENDLY.  
We explained the situation on the phone clearly.
We drove 40 minutes to go here. My sister brought her 6 month old, since she is breast feeding. We had to walk though a smoky loud bar to the backyard, getting ugly looks the whole way. Thankfully there wasn't anyone by the playground really, but people were still staring at us and talking about us.
My sister and I had to take turns going inside to watch my cousin play, we hadn't seen him in 13 years or more.
We were there 30 minutes before we were kicked out, the guy said you had to be 21 or over. I guess he was afraid the 6 month old was going to try and sneak alcohol.
My sister went out to my car while I said goodbye to my cousin. I noticed there was a 13 year old there hanging out with her mom. I guess the establishment there thought she was old enough to stay. It was a bad experience, people were rude, the staff there didn't know what they were doing and gave us bad advice, and then kicked us out cause of the bad advice they gave us.

Ok so, my friend and I decided to go out for drinks a Friday night. We googled "drinks & bars near Austin, Tx" (we live in Manor, Tx) and Hanover's came up. We'd never heard of it but at times she and I like trying new things and decided to gps our way there.

Parking wasn't too far from the pub. We walked to the door and were hit up for an $8 admission fee. (I'm used to bar hopping at no entrance fee so that threw me off a little, but it wasn't a big deal). I just thought in my head "gotta head to the bar and get my money's worth haha". We got there like at 8:30pm, it wasn't too crowded yet. We were the youngest girls at the pub (22). I would say everyone was in their 30s and older. Of course, being used to the Downtown scene we were the only ones a little over dressed. Um, awkward. We strolled around the pub to pick out our seating, we checked out the volleyball courts, neat! Great place to bring a group of friends. We chatted and drank a little, an hour had gone by. A band was setting up the stage, woohoo live music! I have no idea what the band was called but they played 80's big hits, loooooved it! Everyone was dancing and enjoying themselves.

We totally loved the place, I don't remember what the tab was but it was so much fun I didn't care. I hope it's this cool when I bring other friends to check it out. Staff seemed laid back and the over-all crowd seemed nice and sociable as well.