Checked out The Freehouse in the North Loop yesterday. Food was pretty good but not amazing (City Pages and Heavy Table both didn't give them very high marks). The beer was totally uninspired. The plainest beer I've had anywhere in town. If someone said, "I want the plainest, nondescript stout there is.", I'd go with their stout. Same can be said about the brown ale, IPA, and Kolsch. I suppose they may be looking to make the Budweiser of craft beer to appeal to as many macro drinkers as they can at their other restaurant locations as selling their own product instead of others means higher profits but the beer certainly isn't going to go over that great with people that enjoy craft beer.
