Silver Creek Brewing Company

Stop #2. I wished that I had gotten the opportunity to review these guys based on something other than a mind-boggling excuse. I had slated Silver Creek for my second stop on a brewpub trifecta. The website states that they're open from noon until 6:00 on Sundays. When I got there there were four guys outside smoking and one told me that they were closed for brewing. Unless they have the Chicago city worker mentality, where one guy would watch two guys supervise a fourth who was actually doning something, this leaves me scratching my head. I ran kitchens for years and couldn't imagine telling someone that we were closed for cooking. I mentioned that it would be nice to post this inexplicable lack of service on the website. If you can list your hours of operation you could casually mention being closed on the 23rd of March. Thank you very little.

I've been to the Silver Creek Brewery a few times before and those experiences have been okay.  However, on this trip, we just wanted to come on in for a beer.  When we arrived at the entrance around the back, there was a rope up.  But the sign said that it was open on Sunday's from 12pm-6pm.  So we decided to just take a peek to see if the doors were open - which they were.  We were impolitely greeted by the brew master, when I kindly asked if they were open at all today.  He angrily said to us, in a yelling manner, "WE are CLOSED today....we are BREWING" - just in that tone if you can imagine.  We turned right around, feeling very anger ourselves for being spoken to in that way. We will never be back there again, nor buy any beers in any store that come from this brewery.  It's quite a shame because, from what I remembered from previous trips, the beer is pretty good.  But that's about it. That's why it gets just 2 stars.

Really a 4 1/2 stars. If they had food of any kind, it would probably be 5 stars. You can, however, bring in or order food to be delivered to the pub.

I just love this place. As folks have said, a place to chill with a great beer especially during nicer weather sitting alongside Cedar Creek (not the Milwaukee River as some have said). I love coming in the afternoon since it can be harder to find a seat later in the evening, especially weekends. Check their website for the hours since they open at various times in the afternoon.

In my opinion, Silver Creek's Maibock is among the best beers in Wisconsin. Period. It is higher octane so definitely sip slowly and don't overdo it. The other beers are good also.