{"id":1398,"date":"2010-08-30T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:05:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:05:04","slug":"review-lakefront-brewery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/review-lakefront-brewery\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Lakefront Brewery Visit, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
The beautiful brick-y Lakefront Brewery exterior:<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Last month I took a trip up to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to visit some friends. My only requirement for making this trip was that we\u2019d have the chance to go on a brewery tour. I didn\u2019t have a lot of time to research which tour would be the best, so I left it in the hands of my very capable friends to decide. Thus, we landed at Lakefront Brewery, located along the Milwaukee River (Yes, river\u2026not lake) at 1872 N. Commerce Street in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n The brewery itself is in a building that used to be a coal-fired power plant. In 1998, the City of Milwaukee, faced with the decision of what to do with the building, had considered tearing it down. The owners of Lakefront Brewery, the Klisch Brothers, seized the opportunity to purchase the building in an effort to expand their own operation and preserve a piece of Milwaukee history.<\/p>\n In exchange for $7 you receive 1 guided brewery tour, 1 Lakefront Brewery pint glass and four pours of Lakefront Brewery\u2019s beer\u2026not a bad deal at all. The nice part about the four pours of beer is that you are allowed to take the beer with you on the tour, and they refill your glass mid-way through the tour. The tour gives you a good background on how Lakefront Brewery came to be, where they are going and a little bit about the beer making process. I will say that this tour is geared more towards a tourist crowd than a craft beer crowd, which is fine. The tour guide was funny and definitely knew how to work the crowd, however…<\/p>\n We tend to take our beer seriously here at GDB (but not TOO seriously) and so you can understand why I was a little offput when I asked the tour guide if they had any plans to start canning their beer. He quickly dismissed my question by saying, “Who wants to drink beer out of a can – it tastes better from a bottle or keg.” As we’ve seen with Half Acre, Surly, Oskar Blues and others, canning craft beer does not detract from the flavor of the product (assuming the product going into the can is quality.)<\/p>\n