Experience America’s Favorite Brewery Tour

You can buy tickets here on our eTix page.

If you’d like to ensure your spot on a specific tour, the majority of a tour’s tickets will be available online for advance purchase. If online tickets are sold out, 15 walk-up tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis for the next available tour with the exception of Saturday tours. These tours are completely sold online. We reserve the right to increase the availability of online tickets based on business needs.

Please Note: Any online tickets that did not sell on any given day will be sold as walk-up tickets on a first-come, first-served basis the day of. All online ticket sales are final and cannot be refunded.

That’d be a resounding “yes!” All patrons on the premise must be 21 with a valid ID or under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian. Aunts, uncles, brothers, and sisters are not legal guardians. The tour is geared toward adults, but kids and families are welcome at their own discretion. Kids 12 and under do not require a ticket but must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian at all times.

For non-beer drinkers, we offer our Golden Maple Root Beer as well as Coke products. Wine is available for guests over 21 as well.

Interested in hosting a DNC event at Lakefront Brewery? We’ve got meeting and presentation spaces, banquet options, patio spaces, and more.

Check out our primer on DNC events at Lakefront here.

Each public tour has a limit of 45 to 60 people depending on the day, but if you have a large group coming, we highly recommend purchasing tickets online ahead of time.

All ticket sales are final. We do not offer refunds for any tickets purchased. We will not issue extra sample tokens for groups with unused tour tickets. Please call ahead with any related issues.

We offer tours 7 days a week. The first tour starts at 12 p.m. (11 a.m. on Saturdays) and the last one starts around 7 or 8 p.m., depending on the day (last tour @ 4 p.m. on Sundays).

On weekdays, a private tour requires a minimum of 20 people or $180 and occurs on the half hour. The cost of the tour is $9 per person during the week.

On weekends, public tours without sales can be bought out and require a minimum of 50 people or $550. The cost of the tour is $11 per person on the weekends. We cannot host private tours on Saturdays but you are welcome to purchase all 60 tickets online reserving the tour for yourself and up to 59 other people.

Private tours include four 6oz. samples of beer, a souvenir pint glass, and a beer coupon for a Lakefront pint elsewhere. The tours last approximately 45 minutes. All attendees must be 21 or accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

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Saturdays are a unique day at the brewery because we put all of our tour tickets online and we usually sell out. Due to the tours selling out, we now offer mini tours. These occur 5 minutes after the hour, every hour. This tour still includes the free samples, souvenir pint glass, and beer coupon but is much shorter, doesn’t include as many bad jokes, and gives you more time to enjoy our award-winning brews. Although the tour does not go down into the brewery, much of what the tour guide will be talking about can be seen through large windows.

These tours are not available for pre-purchase and only occur when regular tours are sold out.

Our technical tour takes place on Sundays at 11 a.m. and consists of a detailed 90-minute tour through the brewery with a brewing expert, plus a 90-minute beer and food pairing session provided by one of our skilled chefs. These tours are limited to 15 people to give you the most intimate experience of our brewery. More Details >

On weekdays we are in production and cannot go through the entire brewery. Tourists can see much of the brewery and its equipment through glass windows, though. The weekday ticket price, usually $10, can fluctuate based on the holidays.

Weekend tours go through the entire brewery because we are usually not in production. Friday evening and Saturday tours are always busy and almost always sell out. Saturday tours are only sold online (here). Friday night tours have 15 walk-up tickets set aside for each tour. Any online tour tickets that didn’t sell on a given day become available as walk-up tickets the day of. Please arrive early to have a chance at these tickets. The weekend ticket price is $12.

¡Estamos muy orgullosos de ofrecerles a nuestros clientes hispanohablantes la posibilidad de hacer un recorrido de nuestra cervecería famosa en español! Favor de ponerse en contacto con Omega directamente (omega@lakefrontbrewery.com) para más información o para organizar de antemano su visita en español.

We are proud to announce that our nationally renowned brewery tour is now available in Spanish! Contact Omega at omega@lakefrontbrewery.com for more information and availability. Tours must be booked in advance.

Unfortunately, our gift card system isn’t connected to our online ticketing software. If you’re looking to grab spots in advance, we ask that reservations are made and paid for ahead of time here. Upon your arrival, we will refund the total cost of your purchase and swipe your gift card for that amount. You can also use gift cards on walk-up tickets, but we cannot promise space for you, especially on the weekends.