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| - I bought a Groupon for a brewery tour and flights for two. My husband made the appointment for the tour, Sunday at 2 pm, which was also listed on their website as a tour time. We arrived at 1:30, thinking we would have a pint first. There were two people working, one behind the bar and one working the floor. There was no music on. The customers seemed "local". The bartender brought us menus and then was off to fix a bloody mary, which took a long time to make. She had to retrieve a huge jar of olives from the pantry, put the olives in the drink and then returned this-now-opened jar of olives to a dry, uncooled, pantry. I'm pretty sure those should be refrigerated after opening but I'll stick to my business...it took us over 8 minutes to get a drink. We advised we were here for a tour. She seemed surprised and said that no one was here to give us a tour. She asked if we had scheduled it. We had. She asked who we spoke with. We did not know. She asked if it was male or female and what time of day we had made the appt. A LOT of questions. Then she advised that maybe the owner's father was coming in that he could give us the tour. We were not sure if we were getting a tour or not at this point, so we ordered food. The owner's father did show up and approach us at the bar. He was hard to understand and vague; I'm pretty sure he was intoxicated. He seemed to dissuade us from the tour, which at this point was not hard to do. The food was good. Sunday is all day happy hour with $3 apps. I had bruschetta and caprese salad. They were both fresh and tasty. My husband had a brat and fried pickles; he said they were the best fried pickles he'd ever had. I didn't even know that was a thing. I hoped these pickles had been in the fridge unless the jar was just opened. The Beer was AWESOME, which is the point, right?! So I would go back for the beer except that, because of the weird service, I won't go out of my way to return. I feel duped out of a tour that I don't think they wanted to give.
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