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From a 1987 Riverwest original to a taproom where customers vote on the next batch — five stops for a Milwaukee beer crawl.
The brewery behind Milwaukee's Instagram-famous milkshake IPAs and fruited sours, with enough range across traditional styles to back up the national attention.
Visit Website ↗Brewing since 1987 and “synonymous with blue-collar craft beer,” Lakefront is the elder statesman of the Milwaukee beer scene. Known for the Riverwest Stein and its highly-rated Breakfast Oatmeal Stout, it also runs one of the city's most popular brewery tours.
Visit Website ↗Central Waters is based in Amherst, Wisconsin — one of the state's most decorated breweries for barrel-aged beers and sustainability — but its dedicated Milwaukee tap room brings that lineup into the city.
Visit Website ↗A homegrown Milwaukee brewpub group that's expanded fast, including taking over the former Good City Brewing locations — a full food menu alongside a rotating beer lineup.
Visit Website ↗MobCraft pioneered crowdsourced recipes — customers vote on which beers actually get brewed and packaged. A genuinely different taproom experience if the others start to blur together.
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