Brewery
Date and time reviewed: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 21:17:55 EDT
Overall Score: 88.3
Selection: 4.75 | Service: 3.5 | Atmosphere: 5 | Food: 3.25
Reviewer: Curmudgeon
It all started as a home brew. How many brewers today with million-dollar enterprises can say the same thing? Then, friends started insisting, “this is really good beer. You should open a brewery.”
So John MacDonald did…and now some 26 years later, it is the largest brewery in the mid-west shipping their product nation-wide.
This brewery is a monster, with separate production facilities and beer hall.
The other reviews here talk about the tour. If you haven’t ever done a brewery tour, you should…but don’t let that stop you from just sitting and sipping and watching the sun set over the Kansas City skyline. Enjoy the cheese or meat platter with a 6th Glass Quad (one of the very best made today!) or something special for the current season; a Funky pumpkin or Bob’s 47 Oktoberfest…but come back to the Quad! Or the bourbon barrel aged Quad. Or the tripel.
Yes, yes…I know…I’m prejudiced about my dark and heavy beers but they just satisfy.
We were disappointed in the customer service. I stood & waited for quite some time as one of the bartenders looked my way several times and decided the conversation with her co-worker at the end of the bar was more important…as was the woman behind me whom she decided should be served first.
But it was the only “hiccup” in the evening.
Still not ready to go? Take a stroll downstairs to the bottle shop & load up on your favorite…or favorites.
Take the tour….stay ’til closing (7:00 pm? I don’t know why.)…take a deep breath, relax and know that you’ll be enjoying one of the best brews available year-round.
And then raise your glass and say “thanks”
I did. Several times.
Source:Boulevard Brewing Co.