Insurrection AleWorks

Went to Insurrection right after they opened and had a wonderful time. Great beer and great wings.

Went here last Friday night with the fiancé. It was a mixed crowd of mid 30s hipsters and professionals. We sat at the bar, the place was hopping! Very crowded, but it was still fun. I like how you can choose to have a half pour rather than a full. The food menu is concise and specific. We tried two different types of meat and cheeses which were presented on a butcher block cutting board with fresh bread and mustard. I had the cranberry mead which was very tasty! Didn’t even taste like beer to me, which I like since I’m not a huge beer person. My fiancé loved all the beers he tried, and he is a beer guy! Matt, the owner, is very hands on and friendly. The other staff is also friendly and helpful. You can tell they’re happy working there.
Main course… I had the mac n cheese with chorizo, it was very good! The fiancé had the dolphin steak sandwich with fresh chips which I stole of course!
Overall, a nice place for apps and beer in an area I would not normally go to. Looking forward to my next visit.

Bad location right on main road with cars buzzing by. Poor on street parking. Subpar beers. Had about 5 IPA’s. No variety. Food was poor. Chicken sandich with avocado was terrible. I was looking forward to some creamy avocado, but bit down into som w thing very hard, harder than raw carrots. It was the avocado s. The cook should know his produce and never sent that out. Customer service is poor.

I came here 1 week after it opened. The beers were good, adventurous, over all well done. I’m an IPA fan and they did those well. I loved the half pours because they gave me the option to try a large amount of the beer list without having too much. They do ½ pours instead of flights. So don’t be disappointed if there are no flights, because the ½ pours are perfect… you can try so much more! It wasn’t overly crowded and the service was on point. The cheese and meat board was a nice size and you can choose your own. The wings were also pretty good. The place is the start to something wonderful.
There is street parking only, so take it when you can get it! Also, although the street sign says East Railroad Street, those of us from the South Hills know this road as Washington Pike coming from Bridgeville and Washington Ave coming from Carnegie. I’m not really sure why the township renamed this road East Railroad Street because it parallels West Railroad Street. As a person in the map making field… this is really odd. You don’t usually have east & west road names parallel to each other. So just be aware, this is on the main drag.

I came with a group of four for their grand opening. The beers ranged in style from a cider to a stout and everything in between. The cider was decent, not sweet but a bit tart and sour. I really enjoyed the dark star beer, I would have to say it was my favorite one of the night. They have some unique beers available and I’m excited to see what else they will have available in the future. Since this was their first day of service being open to the public-​I felt that service was okay. Our server wasn’t super knowledgeable about the beers and even though she wrote our orders down-​she kept forgetting what we ordered. The food menu looks good-​my friends ordered wings and they looked tasty-​they even have a ghost pepper sauce for their wings that I can’t wait to try! I will come back and give Insurrection another try as I always love to support local breweries-​but it will probably not be for awhile in order to give them time to work on their execution and service.

I went there for their opening night. Their beers were generally good and very interesting, with some unique varieties such as sours that you don’t see too often. I was disappointed they didn’t offer a flight option but they did let me taste a few so I could decide what I wanted. The food was also decent, but not amazing. I was really excited about the meatballs stuffed with cheese, but sadly they must have forgotten to stuff it with cheese :(The service was the part that was most lacking. I called the meatball issue to the attention of the waitress but she didn’t seem concerned and just walked off, not to return again. I would’ve been ok if they would have just brought some cheese to put on top at least. She also forgot one of our drink orders we had to remind her of, then she still brought the wrong thing even though she had written down the original order. We had to get her attention many times before she could finally bring the check. It took about 30 min from when we first asked her to finally get it. She seemed to have trouble using the machine to check us out and there was only one machine that could be used at a time. She didn’t apologize at all (not about the meatballs lacking cheese or about the delays or forgotten drink orders) until the very end when she finally produced the check and she took the meatballs off of it. I know it was their opening day though so they are probably still working out some kinks, so I still hope to go back and see how they do.