To sum it up, yummm, but the tour was a disappoint...

To sum it up, yummm, but the tour was a disappointment.

I have been to a lot of brewery tours. A lot. Milwaukee Brewing Company churns out some pretty delicious beer for the most part. Unfortunately their tour leaves something to be desired. The beer flows freely, which is hugely appreciated. I don't appreciate being limited on my beer tastings, and this is a big check in the win column for MBC.

The problem is with their tours. Their brewery is based out of one giant room, so the noise from the tasting area and other tours drowns out any hope of hearing your tour guide unless you are right up front. Some of the other tours in town do a great job of walking you through the process and giving you a lot of good information about brewing. MBC, probably tries to give you that info, but you only catch about every few words that they say. The microphones they have don't do much to help and really probably only bring up the noise level in the whole place to a higher level. I realize the only logical way to fix this is to either move... or limit your tours, neither of which are ideal or practical. My recommendation would be to hit one of the earlier tours if you want to get anything out of it besides a buzz.

One of the tours I was on here we had a great tour guide that was very friendly and from what I could hear very knowledgeable. The guide we had on this last tour was pretty rude and literally scolded several of the tourists for talking during the presentation. I understand you want to do your best to make sure everyone can hear, but you scolding a couple of guests isn't going to change the fact that the whole joint is way too loud to hear you anyway. Didn't seem to be very good customer service and actually made me feel kind of uncomfortable even tho I wasn't the one in trouble.