FireTap Alehouse in Anchorage

I had the Iron Dog drink, pretzel with their housemade beer cheese and a carnita chicken caesar wrap. My husband got the Reuben sandwich, it was huge! Everything was delicious, that cheese gave me life. I appreciated the kind and helpful staff. I'll definitely be back for more drinks and another pretzel!

My experience here was amazing, the staff was very friendly and attentive. The food was really good we had the chicken pot pie and the Philly cheese pizza, both of which were a home run! The pot pie was perfect on a cold day just the thing to get your bones warmed back up, and the pizza was just delicious with a damn good beer to top everything off, also they have a very good selection of beer. Definitely try this place out you won’t regret it!

I was a first time visitor to Firetap Alehouse during mid afternoon on 05-06-2021.  Aside from the initial friendliness of the hostess, helping me get a window booth seat, my experience was quite poor.  I asked for a King's Bavarian Hefeweizen and was told by my waiter that they had run out, that they had Widmer Hefeweizen which was much the same.  I relocated from the Portland, OR area to Anchorage, AK and Widmer is not the same.  Ok, so they ran out, no biggie, I'll get a soda and ice water with lemon.  The soda was ok - could use carbonation turned up just a bit - and the ice water arrived with no lemon.  I reminder my waiter of such and he brought me a scraggly slice of lemon with his bare hand.  Yikes.  I proceeded to order the large Macho Nachos ($19) and I added chicken ($5.50) - $24.50 total, which has to be the highest priced nachos in Anchorage.  They were terrible.  While a good amount of cheese is dropped on top they are not layered well at all.  Some of the corn tortilla chips under the top toasted layer were actually soggy from the black beans and corn lying on top of them.  The chicken was tasteless, bland.  And, the accompanying guacamole cup was pitifully small, especially for the 'large' 18 inch 'ish long dish of nachos.  So, to summarize, the nachos weren't layered well, there were some soggy chips, the corn and black beans weren't hot underneath, and the chicken was tasteless.  Finally, while not too busy for a Thursday mid-afternoon the place could still use an upgrade in cleanliness, specifically referencing the floor.  Then, there was a gross hidden stash of trash - old face masks, napkins, etc. - located between the booth and where it went up against the window wall.  Disgusting.  Th...