Dovetail Brewery Tour

A 90-minute behind-the-scenes tour of Dovetail Brewery, a small brewery focusing on Continental European styles and traditional methods.

Every 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 21+ only. Children are encouraged to enjoy our taproom during tours—it’s a working brewery, after all. You also MUST WEAR CLOSED-TOE SHOES. NOTE: If you show up and you're not wearing closed-toe shoes, we will exchange your ticket for another date. We will not issue refunds.

The quick details:
• All tours include: three .3L pours of Dovetail beers and some other beer samples and 15% off all to-go beer and merchandise
• 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!