Every third Saturday of the month (usually) at 12pm, we offer award-winning* tours of our brewery. Each 90-minute-ish tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).
Tours are $30 and are accommodated first come, first served. 21+ only. Children are encouraged to enjoy our taproom during tours—it’s a working brewery, after all.
The quick details:
• $30
• First come, first served—you can line up before the taproom doors open at noon, but you will not be able to enter the taproom til noon
• All tours include: three .3L pours of Dovetail beers and some other beer samples; a complimentary .3L Dovetail Brewery glass; and 15% off all to-go beer that day
• 24 people maximum
Here’s some of the nice things people have said about our brewery tour:
Chicago Reader, “Dovetail Brewery’s tour serves up a potent look at the art of making craft beer“
Guys Drinking Beer, “6 Reasons The Dovetail Brewery Tour Is Kickass“
Time Out Chicago, “16 Best Brewery Tours in Chicago” (We’re #1!)
Travel Magazine, “The Best 3 Chicago Beer and Brewery Tours“
* We’re one of USA Today’s 10Best Brewery Tours of 2018!