House of Beer

If you are looking for a good dive-ish bar in a not so divey area...look no further! In the strip mall in Hunters Creek this unassuming place offers a plethora of beer choices and a laid back atmosphere with a local crowd.

Not a bad place overall. Great beer choices, with a few local brews and from what I can tell, pretty cool staff. Definitely has the feel of being a possible "cheers" bar for immediate area locals. Worth a try if you are looking for a simple place with good beer.

Mom & I were out on Mother's Day & planned to stop at the big beer bar in this complex but it looked so crowded.  We drove by H.O.B. it looked quaint so we went for it. We were met by a friendly bar tender and great beer that we enjoyed out on the patio.  When I went to pay he even comped my mom's for mother's day.  Very sweet gesture thank you!

I think this is one of the worst beer bars I've found in the country. World of Beers would have been better. Then again, maybe I should have known better, this being in a far-flung suburb and much too close to Disney. I thought the $1.50 toll barrier might keep most of that crowd away, and that does seem to be the case. But this place still kinda sucks.
The beer selection is not really what I would have expected. It's much more focused on beers from outside the region. I saw only one Florida beer on the draft list, a Cigar City, and their "house" beers are brewed by Naragansett (although that's more local than it sounds). They have a number of somewhat interesting taps, but nothing that got me too excited. And it's all overpriced. Not only that, but all three beers we were poured were warm. That made the high prices all the worse. The last beer was poured as a half liter and took the bartender ten minutes (not exaggerating) to finally finish pouring because "all our beers are pouring slowly tonight." I responded "because they're warm" but was not heard.
The bartenders are inattentive, somewhat apathetic (at least to me) and do not seem to know much about the beers, at least individually. If asked a question, they would usually have to walk away and ask someone else, if they tolerated the questions at all (one would walk away as she answered the question). The last beer thing bothered me because I think the good service response would have been "Our beers are pouring slowly. Where are you sitting? I'll bring it out to you when it's done." But no. That beer was just left on the bar after I got tired of waiting, and then I had to wait for the bartender to come back to tell her the name on the tab. It got to me because it really wasn't that busy and there were three people working back there.
I should also note a couple of other things worth mentioning: the house music is awful, and they allow dogs inside (take that as you'd like).
Maybe it was just a bad vibe. Maybe it was just that we had been at a really good beer bar in Jacksonville the previous night and I was comparing the two. It's one thing to have high prices, but they also just come off as cheap. On the draft menu, there's a card (it takes up a spot in the draft menu) mentioning that you only get two samples per order. That's fine if you don't want to just give out free beer all night, but don't put it on your menu, because it makes you look like cheap.
But I go to a lot of beer bars. I seek them out as a way of trying local beers. Those who know what's good in a region do the weeding out for me so I don't get stuck wasting time and money at a bad brewery. But there's no need for stuff like this. I mean, at least they're not serving up solely Fat Tire and Sam Adams and calling themselves a "craft beer bar," but they have a long way to go still.
There are some good places to get good beer in Orlando, but this is not one of them.