Blue Bell Creameries Review

great place and the tour was good and interesting but they don't do it any more (sorry) and who doesn't like ice cream...a must visit

Great learning experience. Got to see how Blue Bell makes their amazing ice cream from the viewing deck, then got to sit and enjoy a $1 bowl of Americans Greates Ice Cream in their parlor.

Very nice, clean and the staff where exceptionally friendly. Nice gift shop and ice cream bar to try and buy ice cream at a low cost!

What a fun place to visit! Gift shop with many Blue Bell items to choose from. The Observation Deck was closed for maintenance, but the Visitors Center had a great video. They have flavors that are not sold in local stores. While we were there, they served HUGE free samples of their Black Cherry which was delicious!! If ever in Brenham, this is a MUST! Their website has information about the history of the creamery. Such a fun experience!!

So neat to see all the history behind my favorite ice cream

Very nice, we learned a lot today about a true Texas landmark.

Blue Bell is always in my heart. The whole experience and visit keeps you in a nostalgic feeling. The ice cream is creamy and luscious ready to tantalize your tastebuds and bring back good memories.

Loved it I want some more of that milk n cookies ice cream

Always a joy! In Texas we love our Blue Bell. If you haven't visited Brenham, Texas put it and The Bluebell Creamery on your bucket list. It is old fashioned wholesome goodness. It is privately owned and they put a little Texas love in every bucket and visiting a real creamery is special. When we arrived, the parking lot was full. You can go upstairs and $1 you can get a big old scoop of your choice. There isn't a bad choice in the bunch. Really that scoop is bigger than just one. Call for tour hours!

Great place to visit. Quiet, clean and Excellent Ice Cream!

Awesome self guided tour and $1 a scoop. Cant beat that!

Miss the tour. After the tour, they would give you 3 samples of ice cream for free. Now they charge a $1.00 for a large scoop. & no tour!

A personal Mecca. Great tours, beautiful greenery with history attached.

Ever wondered how that tub of Bluebell Ice Cream makes it to you? This is the place to go. The tour is reasonably priced and includes a scoop of Blue Bell at the end. The ice cream parlor has many flavors to choose from and at $1 a scoop you can afford to really eat your fill, if you are so inclined. The down side. They only have tours Monday through Friday.

Cool place, the ice cream area was pretty dirty though. $1 a scoop is pretty awesome!

Appt at 11. Checked in at 9 and getting loaded almost immediately. Very organized

BlueBell creameries is one of those significant attractions along 290 that has become as one may deem a mandatory stop just as Buc-ees is for gas. The staff is friendly and there is even a baseball hall of fame museum. they have flavors not available in store which is really neat.

It tasted pretty good! My favorite is Cookies and Cream!

Sorry, but I just wasn't impressed. The tour hours and days are ridiculously limited, so I never got a tour when I was there on a Saturday. NO WEEKEND TOURS, folks. Seriously, how can you not have tours on your two busiest days of the week?? So, if you work a typical M-F job, Blue Bell's factory doesn't cater to you. If you're lucky enough to get there during a designated tour time, you get a free cup of ice cream for your trouble. Otherwise, you pay an outrageous price for a cup. Also, I bought a cup of Cake Batter ice cream at a bbq restaurant in Elgin a few years ago, and it was delicious, tasting like yellow cake batter. Months later, when Blue Bell finally introduced Cake Batter ice cream to stores, it was white cake-batter flavored instead of yellow cake batter. Why the change, idiots? The yellow tastes much better. I'll stick to buying Blue Bell ice cream at my local H-E-B, but certainly not the Cake Batter flavor.

Its absolutely free and only costs 1.00 for an icecream after. Its not very big so really takes no time at all to visit. You can also see how the icecream is made from the observations deck. No pictures are allowed though from the deck, as you can imagine. Lots about the history and great place to visit if you are just passing through!

Cool place to swing by and read the history and also enjoy some good ole ice cream.

There isn't much to do there besides get ice cream. The gift shop doesn't really have much blue bell branded stuff in it. The only kind of cool thing is the observatory but that's only opened till 2.

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Got unloaded , then went inside to tour and eat ice cream !! Loved it !!!!!

Great place to see a century old ice cream factory and how it's made and enjoy a scoop of various flavor of icecream for 1$. Great place to get kids to see.

Finally made it. interesting history, but it is all about the ice cream.

Too bad we couldn't take the tour... went on a Saturday. But the ice cream was DELICIOUS!

Fast unloaded on my delivery in and out in 39 minutes!

Not real technical... but how can you not love ice cream. Plus you can eat as many "scoops" (translation- a cup packed full ) of ice cream for $1 ea. Nice people, I say make the trip. {PS ask why it's upside down }

Awesome place to take the family. My family visiting from out of town loved it.

Very nice and clean place, cute shop and delicious ice crean. You get a scoop for only $1. The thing that I do not liked was that they close the observatory deck 3 hours prior to closing the place. That's too early! The should leave it open til 4:30 at least. We drive a long way and didn't get to see it.

My visit to blue bell creame de brenaham tx I did with my children this Summer 2018 all very well, they are very happy to know the place that makes the most delicious snow in texas, we could see how it is manufactured and packed snow, very well for the trees that surround the place and what I like the most is that for $ 1 dollar you can buy the little glass of the snow that you like the most.

I loved the creamery! You could see the employees make and package the ice cream from the viewing deck. The ice cream is really good. You can get a bowl of ice cream for a dollar.

What's not to love about the best ice cream in Texas? Plus at $1.00 per scoop it's a great deal. The Peachy Peach is the bomb!

Nice place. I got my load and was out of there in under 2 hours.

Awesome place to visit! Plus it was free! They facility was clean. The staff is very friendly and professional. We had a great time. Will definitely be back.

Not worth driving an hour just to see the factory from a window at the observation deck. If you are in town, it is worth. Creamery is very well kept and maintained. Really good ice cream.

Great place to visit and to bring the kiddos. The tour isn't like it was in the past, it's now just a walkthrough. And the ice cream in the parlor is not free anymore. But that's to be expected and it's definitely still worth a visit. Highly recommended.

Large scoop $1 , very nice lady behind the counter. Let me try thee before I devided. Clean very informative. Great tour

Great, but they don't give tours anymore so you might would want to know this ahead of time. There is a small observation deck though.

LOVE THIS ICE CREAM! When you visit the factory store you receive a generous scoop of ice cream for $1. You can sample all the flavors.

Fun place to visit. Smiling and very helpful employees.

We had a great time, disappointed you cant take a tour anymore but understand why!

It's blue bell ice cream better yet I am getting to try a flavor that is not in stores yet.

Great variety of flavors for little and adults. Only $1 per scoop! Awesome

Free to go in, ice cream was only $1, nice gift shop, and you can observe the workers packing the ice cream from the 2nd story.

The tour was excellent. I loved my choice of Seasalt Caramel ice cream.

Somerville Elementary 4th graders
LOVED IT, ESPECIALLY THE ICE CREAM !

Great tour and $1 bowls of ice cream. Can't get any better then this.

YES, YES, YES. Why would anyone give this place less than 5 stars? My husband surprised me with a trip here on our way home from vacation. We got there bright and early - about 10am (they do about 2k-3k people/day in the summertime so it's best to go early). The tour itself is $6/person with a scoop of blue bell ice cream included at the end of the tour (you can add another scoop for $1 more - yes please). They don't allow pictures in the factory which is understandable, as it's a very interesting place. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and knew everything like the back of his hand. I didn't know that they (sadly) retire 5-6 flavors a year! Definitely a must-see if you're ever driving through the Brenham area. Hell, even if you're not.

Greatly disappointed they do not give tours anymore.

Nice gift shop and creamery tour. Several flavors of ice cream to snack on after the tour. If memory serves me correctly, the tour was free.

We make this our stop anytime someone new comes to visit us. Everyone loves this place and the history of how it all started.

Ice cream is only $1 a scoop and it's fun for kids to go to the observation deck. Great place to take visiting friends and family.

Great spot to explore different flavors. Staff is extremely friendly, facility is extremely clean.

If you are from Texas, you pretty much have to visit this place at least once! I sampled a couple different Ice Creams and then walked around and checked out the displays and learned all I could about my favorite Ice Cream!

Great place to visit. Hit and miss when the observation deck is open, so that you can see how the ice cream is made. You can get a huge scoop of ice cream for only $1. Fun to walk through the small museum too.

$1 ice cream scoops and observation deck to watch the ice cream being packaged.

People were extremely nice and answered all our questions.