A few changes since our last visit with our Girl Scouts several decades ago. Visited with our now adult daughter and enjoyed it even more! The changes: it now costs for the tour but you get a huge scoop of one of their 13 awesome flavors at the end of the tour. Our tour lasted about 35 minutes. Our guide, Nikki, was informative, funny and answered everyone's questions as well as helped serve us our ice cream at the end of the tour. A family owned company, not open on the weekends so their staff can be home with their families, their workers are home by 8pm, the assembly line workers are rotated every 40 minutes so no one is stuck at one place all day and they all get as much ice cream as they care to eat for their lunch break. No pictures inside for the privacy of the workers but you can tell how happy everyone is by the waves given to the crowds and the smiles when you pass them in the halls. A really tasty Texas tradition well worth the drive.
We had a wonderful time at the Blue Bell Creamery. The staff is very friendly and our tour guide had a bubbly personality and was very knowledgeable. The best part of course was the ice cream tasting at the end!
Blue Bell is what Brenham is known for and really, who doesn't like ice cream? The tour was about 30 minutes and fairly educational. Free cup of ice cream at the end of the tour was a bonus. Try the Mardis Gras King Cake flavor, sweet and tasty! There are no pictures allowed n the tour, but plenty of other photo opportunities. All in all, well worth $6 tour price! Be aware, there are no tours on weekends.
It's a part of being Texan and it's interesting. Pluse you get free ice cream. What more could one ask.
Interesting tour for all ages of how ice cream & ice cream treats are made. Learn some fun dacts. Tour lasts about 35 - 40 minutes. Free ice cream at the end! High traffic & lots of children on weekends & holidays. You can pre-order tickets online to avoid a wait when you get there.
The tour itself was fun and pretty interesting. It also wasn't extremely long, which was good for the young kids in our group. The free scoop of ice cream at the end of the tour is definitely the highlight and was BIG. You can purchase additional "scoops" for only $1 and it is a perfect way to try all the fun flavors.
We came to Brenham to visit the factory. I liked the large amount of information, It was interesting and the ice cream with delicious.
We didn't tour the ice cream plant this time. We went to get some ice cream. They let you have taste tests. The ice cream was very good at a good price. There was a nice gift shop, too.
The tour was wonderful led by Dottie our guide. It was a lot of fun, educational, and in the end extremely tasty. At the end of the tour we each got to try 32 flavors of ice cream, and a scoop to eat. There are new flavors coming out soon and I can't wait to taste those. Next time we are passing by Brenham, we plan to stop by and get a scope for only $1.00 at the Blue bell factory and our kids hoped we would have gotten one of each on this trip, bu trying 32 flavors is a lot of ice cream to begin with.
Informative tour and the Ice Cream is great! You can just visit the parlor to enjoy the wonderful Ice Cream at a very reasonable price, with the bonus of many articles to read about the Blue Bell story.