Overall this tour was a great value for our family with bottomless soda for kids (should you dare) and four generous beer samples for adults. The tour is quite short (I would have liked to have seen more) but interesting.
We stopped on our road trip but unfortunately we were there too early for a tour and didn't have time to wait the 2hrs till the next one. Instead we wandered the store and bought some items to do our own tasting at home. We will have to go back and do the tour the people working there were very friendly!
tour was short amazed by the fact that root beer could be made in the morning and bottled already that night after the tour you get 4 generous glasses of beer or unlimited sodas along with a free glass souvenir also had the pretzels that you can buy separately were not rushed out of tasting room so we could relax and savour our different beer samples would definitely do this tour again when in the area
We toured this brewery today. If I had to do it again, I would skip the tour and just purchase the low-priced and delicious Sprecher's soda from the gift shop. The person working at the front/reception desk was a very poor representative of the company - lacking personality, friendliness, or even eye contact. The tour started 15 minutes late. The tour guide tried too hard to project so his voice was shrill and unpleasant to listen to. (Give him a portable microphone!) The tour was uninteresting - the first portion was nearly 15 minutes standing in the same spot. After enduring the tour (did learn a few things but that VOICE!) we were given a spiel about tips (after we already paid for the tour) and then ushered into the bar area for our samples. When we made our departing purchases at the gift shop, the same fellow who sold us the tour tickets was there and still projecting the image that he would rather be ANYWHERE ELSE. He could barely look up from his phone to ring up the sale. This place was a disappointment.
Love Sprecher Root Beer and was interested to hear all about their beer brewery. Our tour guide needs to spend a little more time learning the 'story' of the place. Almost every time someone asked a question, he said "I've been asked that lots of times before but I don't know the answer." If you've been asked even once, get the answer! Excellent beer and root beer and nice gift shop.
so the tour was not on my schedule, but enjoyed my visit. spoke with one of the brewmasters who let me try a couple sips (liked the Abby). Very nice merchandise store from glassware to shirts to soda and beer. very worthwhile stop. And hey! The beer is top notch!
This is an interesting brewery that seems to be as well-known for its non-alcoholic sodas as it does for its beer. We arrived by Uber but there appears to be plenty of parking on-site. While the website recommends a tour reservation, we arrived without one and were quickly accommodated by the friendly staff. (We had called ahead to ensure tour availability, however). The fee for the tour was reasonable at $5 per person. The tour itself involved a walk through the brewery and bottling facility with a description by the tour guide of the beer-making process and bottling line. At the end of the tour, you can sit in the bar area and sample 4 glasses of beer or hard root beer/hard ginger ale or unlimited non-alcoholic sodas. The hard root beer was especially good and is worth a try. This is a good brewery tour to check out if you are in the area.
Toured Sprechers brewery today in Glendale and let me tell you it's by far the worst tour ever! You don't see squat and it's actually a pretty dumpy place but I still recommend going because even though the tour costs a whopping $5 you get to keep your glass and you get 4 beers which were all pretty tasty. You can have unlimited sodas as well, so for $5 you waste about 90 minutes and have some very good beer and have a keepsake to take home.As others have mentioned it would be far better to just skip the lame tour and go right to the beer garden.
On Saturday, October 4th, as a group for my tall person's club's mini convention, most of us went to this very nice brewery. They not only had a tour, which was the average brewery tour, but had some of the best beers and soda's I have had for awhile. Plus after the tour you are allowed, I think it was four beers. They keep track on how many beers by pulling off one at a time from your special bracelet they attach at the beginning of the tour. You can drink all the soda you want. The cream soda was out of this world! Also, something you can only get there is the alcohol root beer. Now that was so good that you couldn't tell it had alcohol in it. At least I couldn't tell. Most other beers and soda's you can get from their gift shop. It was a great decision to go here. I recommend it.
My brother took my husband and I to the Sprecher tour when we just had a little time to sightsee in Milwaukee. I really enjoyed the story of the brewery, the tour was more personal than the Miller brewery or the Budweiser tours I've been on in the past. After the tour we got to have several tastings in souvenir glasses (which are really nice!) I'm not a big beer drinker, but I still had fun tasting the brews and sodas. We ended up buying a ton of beer and soda to take back home, and all the bottles survived packed in our checked luggage!