Water Street Brewery - The Brewery

What was formerly the Water Street Brewery has been shortened to simply The Brewery; let's hope people don't get this confused with The Bruery located 2,000 miles away. There still is beer pouring from Water Street Brewery; 11 house beers pouring styles from dry stout and pale lager to more uncommon styles such as their corn beer Machu Picchu or their grape ale Red Ferrari. The beers I've had have been solid quality, enough to bring you in from the Riverwalk, although I'm not a big fan of their cups which look like glass but feel like plastic. Order at the bar, get your beer, grab a seat or play pool if you're looking for something to do.

 

 

 

 

9/17/18 (Milwaukee): First bar hit during day trip to Milwaukee. Large bar and restaurant area, empty during mid-day Monday. Bar had many steins and other Milwaukee Brewery memorabilia which was nice. Service inattentive despite empty bar. Didn't try food, beer was OK.

 

My wife and I visited this brewery on a trip to Milwaukee. The beer selection was excellent, and the beer was solid. I particularly liked the Oktoberfest. The building is full of brewing memorabilia, including a wall full of classic beer cans. We didn't have any food, but the service was friendly.

 

 

 

 

 

Great find! Good beer selection & a great menu. Our server was very helpful with beer suggestions & food

 

 

 

Pretty standard bar scene (at their downtown location). Fairly nice waitstaff and a fairly wide selection of beers. Unfortunately, ever single one of their beers was... bad. Its pretty rare for me to leave anything in a taster in a flight of beers. The 8 I tried tonight (their standard 6 plus two seasonals, the Black IPA and the Flanders Brown) were bad, every single one. I didn't finish a single sample (I think the IPA is the only one I made it halfway through). Almost every beer tasted under-attenuated and every beer had at least one fairly glaring fault.

This is for their Grafton location. Been coming here for business for a few years and the fantastic food and service keeps me coming back. Being 100 meters from my hotel does not hurt either. Their beer has evolved to where I can drink and actually enjoy it now. IPA is a bit bitter but this make their black IPA a beautiful thing. Bright and airy feel with great bartenders makes it relaxing any season. Worth a stop.

There own Beer Pretty Good Small Brewery

 

 

It is basically bar food - cheese curds, scotch eggs, burgers and the like. The beer is decent but there is a lot of the light stuff. All and all its worth a stop.

 

 

Low key interior with a personal feel and touch of personality. Not too loud, which was nice. Staff are friendly, but the restaurant is self serve... Not a great choice if you want a real sit down meal.

Food is home style pub food with a bit of a twist. I missed the homemade pretzels, but my schnitzel sandwich was good. Garlic-parm fries were just fries dusted with some store bought shake. On the bright side my asian salad had fresh orange segments rather than from a can.

Beers are OK (a bit thin and mostly one dimensional), with limited selection (5 on tap) but they have great prices.

Mediocre overall.