
COLUMBIA, MARYLAND
In a freestanding tan building with red-green trim inside Dobbin Square Mall five miles south of Ellicott City, Columbia's
ROCKY RUN TAP & GRILL (closed September 2007) had outside deck, rear dining, and glass door-separated sportsbar (with multiple NFL games on several TV’s, wall-strewn brewer’s posters-insignias, and extremely cool tap handles).
Visited November ’06, left side glass-encased brew tanks served menial fare to go with pub grub. Pale malt-softened cereal-oats-deferred mild-hopped
Bar Wench Brew Golden Ale, tartly acidic citric-candied sorghum-neutered
Maple Leaf Lemon Wheat, diacetyl cornmeal-biscuit-y
Big Gut Pale Ale and oily prune-fig-grape-fronted ice coffee-barren
Brewhouse Barrel Stout were run of the mill.
Try instead, honeyed amber-grained, caramel-malted tranquility
Mountie Red.
www.rockyrun.com