First Look: Grab a locally brewed beer to go with your artisan pizza at this new Inner Harbor taproom

First Look: Meier's Creek at Inner Harbor

The opening minutes at Meier's Creek at the Inner Harbor. The doors opened at 4 p.m. Thursday. An hour later, 43 customers roamed the bar. (Charlie Miller | cmiller@syracuse.com)

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(In First Look, we pay a quick visit to a new restaurant or bar in Central New York to give readers an idea of what to expect. Our food critics might visit these places eventually and give us their take, but we want to highlight what’s new in our area. If you know of a new place, send an email to cmiller@syracuse.com or call/text me at 315-382-1984. If I take your suggestion, I just might buy you a meal.)

Syracuse, N.Y. — The silent opening for the Meier’s Creek Brewing Co. taproom in the city’s Inner Harbor was supposed to begin at 4 p.m. last Wednesday. The bartenders finally could describe the 16 beers they’d be pouring from the taps. The pots and pans had just arrived in the kitchen, and they still had their UPC codes stuck to the bottom.

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