August 2, 2009
I stopped here for a short visit with my wife, friend and a few other beerpals. I’ve been wanting to check it out for quite some time now. Having been a huge fan of Tyranena for years, our visit seemed long over due. Nice little bar area with all the fixins. A very unassuming place. If you didn’t know your way around Lake Mills (which i don’t) you would probably pass by this place not knowing it was even a brewery. A friendly little biergarten in the back with friendly dogs to accompany it. Overall, it was a nice visit and i will have to make sure i stop by again very soon.

March 28, 2009
I visited the tasting room by myself on a sunday. It was around 1:30pm. when I arrived and there was about 3 other people there. They where locals and came to watch some college basketball. I was there just to have some beer. I ended up trying the 9 samples they had and two pints. I stayed for two basketball games and had a great time talking to the locals and the other people coming in and out to purchase growlers. Definite must stop if you’re in the area and want some pretty good craft beer and chat with some nice small town folks!!!

November 20, 2008
Disappointing. Completely. This rating would be twice as high if they’d had Spank Me Baby on tap, but they didn’t. The bartender was kind of a tard, too, knew nothing about beer, and gave me the wrong change.

September 20, 2008
Quick stop off of 94, and worth checking out just to see what couple of rarities they have on tap. We just went to the tasting room, as tours weren’t going when we got there. Ten beers on tap when we visited, including BA Spank Me Baby and an Oktoberfest (I’d had everything else in bottles). Solid service, relatively cheap prices, and the locals are really friendly. Outside seating area and a well-furnished bar. Comfortable, quick stop between Milwaukee and Madison.

May 11, 2008
Small tasting room bar inside the brewery in Lake Mills. Cozy atmosphere with only Tyranena on tap, including Pretty Damn Black Stout, the reason for the stop. The night I went they had live music playing to a crowd somewhere around 30. It was non-smoking but there was a golden retriever dog walking around in the bar… a very friendly dog that would knock into my legs every ten minutes or so. While the musical genre the day I went wasn’t up my alley, I would go back to see something that was. There were games available to be played too – backgammon, chess, cribbage, etc.

April 30, 2008
A nice cozy bar. The staff is very nice and talkative, always willing to answer questions or give a quick refill. They provided me with all the snacks that I wanted. Many people were there just talking, it wasn’t loud or rowdy at all. I know they have breakfast specials on Sunday but other than that there is no menu, which is sort of a bummer. The Brewmaster shows up a lot and seems to be available for questions and conversation.

March 22, 2008
Clean and industrial. Nothing out of the ordinary on tap, apparently I just missed the aged barley wine they had on tap. the bar area was cozy and the staff was friendly. They had a brew tour we went on which was short and to the point with a decent guide showing all of the equipment off. Overall worth the stop if you like the beer.

January 8, 2008
This is one of my favorite haunts.. too bad that it isn’t convenient for where I live. The small-ish indoor seating area is cozy, and more importantly non-smoking!! They have some nice TVs for game watching and set out little snacks occasionally. Their beers are significantly better on tap here than in bottles, and there are usually 1-2 special non-bottled beers available. Prices are very good, and the staff is most always friendly and attentive. They have regularly-scheduled concerts that are a blast (often folk/bluegrass type bands), and during the summer these are outside in the patio area, with a large surrounding grassy space for picnics, frisbee, kids running around. Very family (and dog) friendly. I stop here whenever I have the chance.

June 11, 2007
Visited on 6/9. Had visited before to find the place closed. The bar is well done, and the outside beer garden offered plenty of space for drinking and for tossing around the football. They offered live music, which brought out a number of people, probably 40 in total. Tap selection was impressive. Service was a bit lacking -- the bartender was slow and not all that eager to help us it seemed.

January 29, 2007
I visited the brewery on a Sunday in the dead of winter, but I was still impressed by the casual warmth of the place and had a nice time there. The tasting room is located in the brewery, which is a pre-fab warehouse-looking building in an industrial park. But, the tasting room is cozy, with dim lighting, a nice bar, and the board games on the window sill indicated you were welcome to stay awhile. The brewer’s retriever circulated through the bar also, which made me feel at home. The brewer (whose name I don’t know, but whose face I recognize from being on the brewery’s e-mail list) was on-hand tending bar, which was great, although I didn’t ask him any of my beer geek questions because of the company I was keeping on this particular visit. I had the honey ale, porter, and 2006 scotch ale. Of these, the scotch was head and shoulders above the others. The Spank Me Baby barley wine was still listed on the board, but I didn’t ask for it so I’m not sure it is still in stock (it is very good also). All-in-all, I was happy with my visit to Tyranena, and would recommend stopping by for a beer when between Madison and Milwaukee, or when a significant other drags you toward the Johnson Creek outlet mall.