Generations Brewing Company
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Reviewed by emerge077 from Illinois
4.14/5 rDev -1%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.25
4.14/5 rDev -1%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.25
Post Great Taste brewery mini-tour stop #2.
Made it in time just before they closed to try most of the beers.
The brewery is very new and pretty big. The taproom was spacious and had a cool patio outside with some new hop bines swaying in the breeze. The crowd was decidedly young and inebriated on a Sunday afternoon, singing along to music. There was a large portrait painting of a cow on one wall that had some cool abstract touches of color. Behind the bar is a view into the cavernous brew house, which the bartender generously offered a quick tour of.
A good variety of beers, almost a dozen in all. The standouts were the oaked Irish ale and cherry/blueberry Berliner Weisse. A good variety including milds, APA, DIPA, Maibock, Porter, and a Berliner. Nothing too experimental besides the pretzel Amber, but the quality was good. They did have 3 barrels aging in the brewery, one was a Barleywine and the other was a rye Saison.
Seemed a little pricey, 9 samples and a half growler was $35. I didn't get an itemized receipt to check, but the 5 oz. samples were $2 and the growler was $11 or so. I was just glad that they were accommodating and stayed open until we all left.
Overall worth a stop if in the Rockford area or heading out to Galena. Seemed to be the best thing going on in Freeport, aka Pretzel City.
Aug 11, 2015Made it in time just before they closed to try most of the beers.
The brewery is very new and pretty big. The taproom was spacious and had a cool patio outside with some new hop bines swaying in the breeze. The crowd was decidedly young and inebriated on a Sunday afternoon, singing along to music. There was a large portrait painting of a cow on one wall that had some cool abstract touches of color. Behind the bar is a view into the cavernous brew house, which the bartender generously offered a quick tour of.
A good variety of beers, almost a dozen in all. The standouts were the oaked Irish ale and cherry/blueberry Berliner Weisse. A good variety including milds, APA, DIPA, Maibock, Porter, and a Berliner. Nothing too experimental besides the pretzel Amber, but the quality was good. They did have 3 barrels aging in the brewery, one was a Barleywine and the other was a rye Saison.
Seemed a little pricey, 9 samples and a half growler was $35. I didn't get an itemized receipt to check, but the 5 oz. samples were $2 and the growler was $11 or so. I was just glad that they were accommodating and stayed open until we all left.
Overall worth a stop if in the Rockford area or heading out to Galena. Seemed to be the best thing going on in Freeport, aka Pretzel City.
Reviewed by TheSSG from Illinois
4.53/5 rDev +8.4%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4
4.53/5 rDev +8.4%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4
This was a very pleasant surprise.
It's not too hard to find the place, and it's in a nice, big Industrial-like building with their logo on the side.
Inside, it's a really relaxed vibe; mostly older folks, wood tables, quiet. It was really nice to not have to wade through crowds of hipsters, haha. You can definitely grab a table and have a conversation without straining your voice, which is a big plus for me.
The service was great, even though it was just one, then two folks working.
Selection was really nice, a nice, rounded set of options.
And the quality....oh, was I impressed. It was really, really good stuff. There was a local-hopped Pale Ale which was just fantastic. There was a spruced IPA which was wonderful. The Kölsch was stunning, and the Rye Saison was just as good.
Overall, I'll be going back. Definitely worth the drive.
Jan 25, 2015It's not too hard to find the place, and it's in a nice, big Industrial-like building with their logo on the side.
Inside, it's a really relaxed vibe; mostly older folks, wood tables, quiet. It was really nice to not have to wade through crowds of hipsters, haha. You can definitely grab a table and have a conversation without straining your voice, which is a big plus for me.
The service was great, even though it was just one, then two folks working.
Selection was really nice, a nice, rounded set of options.
And the quality....oh, was I impressed. It was really, really good stuff. There was a local-hopped Pale Ale which was just fantastic. There was a spruced IPA which was wonderful. The Kölsch was stunning, and the Rye Saison was just as good.
Overall, I'll be going back. Definitely worth the drive.
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