Leinenkugel Brewery Tour

The day that we road-tripped up to the Beyoncé Concert was Ben's birthday so whenever he wasn't sleeping in his luxuriously-cozy-backseat-birthday-boy-nap-cave we had him pick out things that he wanted to do from the side of the road. One of those tings was the Leinenkugel Brewery Tour.

It was the best roadtrip pit stop you could have. The tour is a steal. No really, I think we robbed them. The tour is free. You only need to pay $1 for the Leinenkugel glass for your 5 samples.
I know, right! AND you get to keep the glass! 
We are THIEVES.

To get our names on the list we went into the Leinie Lodge and asked the sweet ladies at the desk to sign us up for the tour. They gave us our glass token for the glass and the wrist bands to keep track of the samples.
(Smart, huh? AND we became official taste testers.)

While we waited we had our first sample at the bar. Above the bar is the old copper drum that used to be in the brewery and around the shop you can see bits and pieces that were used when the brewery first opened.

We were taken around on the tour and they showed us the whole brewing process. The brewery is a mixture of new and old. One building was built within the last couple of decades, but the original one was from the late 1800s.

When we came back we toasted to the B-day boy with each sample left. B was very happy with our spontaneous stop.

Good thinking B.

If you're ever in the Chippewa Falls, WI area you should for sure stop at the Leinenkugel's Brewery. You will need about two hours for the sampling and tour, but it's worth it.

More Bey-hive road-trip stories to come next week.
I swear I could celebrate Queen B for Day-Z.
(Did you see what I did there??)