December 19, 2009
Similar to the Madison location with excellent food selection and tasty samples. There was a guy sampling several beers and root beer on my visit, answered all my questions. Many beers available here you won’t fins anywhere else in the Milwaukee area – Hales, Scuttlebutt, El Toro, Yellowstone, Millstream along with others you will – Avery, flying dog and may Wisconsin brews. Never a huge fan of beers sitting out in the middle of a store like a fruit display, but it’s all mix and match at reasonable prices.

January 8, 2008
This is my local Brennan’s, so I have spent much time there. The store has a nice, warm farmer’s market appeal to it, with a significant produce section upfront and beer, wine, cheese, and other stuff in the back. The beer selection has a build your own six pack option, with an array of breweries from IA, KS, WI, CO, and other states.. mostly mediocre beers, but it’s a good option. They also carry Central Waters and have most of the Avery and Great Divide lines (including the big beers). Service is always friendly, they almost always have free cheese samples, and it’s close to home.

December 21, 2005
This is a very nice grocery store that happens to have a very large beer selection. Most of the micros are from the Rocky Mountain area. Excellent service, samples are offered on the weekend.

October 20, 2005
Weird store. Why all the Colorado, Montana and Iowa beers, weird California choices (El Toro) and limited selections of the more popular WI brands (notably New Glarus and Capital)? Most 12 oz available in mix-a-six though sadly not including Central Waters...a few bigger bottles, but this is mostly WI and western micros. Different selection than any other Wisconsin store I’ve seen, so worth a look just for that. Also the best cheese selection I have seen in any Wisconsin grocery store, easily.

July 26, 2005
The have mostly Colorado and Iowa beers. I didn’t see any Central Waters in there today. :( The food (farm market) looks like it’d be good. The fruits and veggies look very fresh. There were samples of peaches available (half a dozen types or so). Good wine selection? Make a 6er of beer for "cheap".

July 11, 2005
Nice selection of micros (especially for an out of towner like myself). Discounts on cases of mixed beer (I bought 2 cases worth of singles). There was 2 beer guys walking around a ready to assist and answer my questions.

June 12, 2005
Good place to visit, they cary a decent selection from colorado and the area have a nice build your own sixer of random stuff. The service is always friendly w/ lots of good fresh foods and fruits. Nice place.

April 4, 2005
A large selection of overstocked micros mostly from the Rocky Mtn States. Beers are often quite past their prime. Nothing is worse than a hop-heavy western ale that has aged. The Wisconsin beers are usually okay. Even the huge cheese selection must be picked through carefully. And it too, is mostly pretty standard fair you could get in a grocery store.

February 16, 2005
Nice selection of single beers. Closest Central Waters outlet to Milwaukee, I believe. Not much in terms of foreign beers though.

December 28, 2004 [ Updated July 8, 2005 ]
Great place. Their employees are very knowledgable and are always ready with a recommendation. Good at classifying beers, knowing what awards certain breweries and beers have won, and what is an even better selection than what you were picking out. A lot of their beers are from Colorado, but they’re carefully selected and deserving to try. Plus, you get to make your own 6-pack of 12-oz. bottles for just $6.99, picking from nearly their entire stock. So why did I give the food category a high score? It’s simple - they have oodles of cheese. Highly recommended.