Waconia Brewing Company

Great beer. Friendly and knowledgeable staff who are always happy to provide samples of their brew. This place is great.

This is a very good taproom if you can make the drive West you won’t be disappointed. Good beers, good atmosphere. Nothing more to add.

Great spot to grab a beer and enjoy friends. Free popcorn in the popper and a special items food menu. Tonight they were serving flatbread pizza. Delicious. The vibe is just what Waconia needs and it was packed. This is a gem.

Love this place!
Waconia now has a micro brewery for people who just love beer!
I don’t want a lecture on where the hops were grown, or if I’m about to drink some ancient recipe found in a book in a long lost library… that’s why I love this place! They just make great beer, have a warm atmosphere, cool tables and chairs and the nicest staff you will ever find!
The beer I love the most is the Mo-​Winta Milk Stout, but all their beers are delicious!
Go here, buy beer, be happy!

Great selection, taste, taproom, and staff — this is about all you could ask for in a watering hole.
After opening recently a few friends and I decided to give this new spot a try. I’ve been to about a dozen different twin cities breweries and really enjoy the likes of Dangerous Man, Bauhaus, and Indeed among others. This brand new small town brewery can stand up to the best of them. They clearly have a great marketing team and also spent a pretty penny on outfitting the tap room with nice tables, furniture, two TVs, and logos. I’ve seen other small time breweries start out of the opposite way, very small with a limited budget and only thought about the tap room as an afterthought.
The beers were very good in my opinion. I’m not a beer snob but certainly enjoy a nice Amber Ale or Wheaty orange brew. I selected the 255 Amber Ale and the WacTown Wheat which are two of their four flagship brews. The Amber was deliciously light and fruity, with that beautiful Amber color and easy drinkability. The Wheat was just as I expected, it came in a nice Weizen Glass (taller with curves), had light appearance, some carbonation, and plenty of wheat and yeast. The guys I was with tried the 342(not a big fan), Session BIPA (drank hard), and the 90K IPA (good stuff). I also had a Root Beer that came in a nice frosty mug. It was good root beer although I’m not sure if it was brewed in house or an off the shelf brand.
I found two minor issues with the Brewery. The first is that when we arrived at around 8 pm there were quite a few kids (4−8yr olds) running around the place while their parents drank. Waconia is a small town so I’m not too surprised, but I would prefer that the tap room manager Dee run some type of an adult establishment past 8pm on a Saturday night. If the kids were a bit more calm and not running around yelling I would have minded less. The second issue was that the food selection is weak. They don’t offer their own food and Waconia simply doesn’t have many options to order in. WBC does have «Ground Round» as an option to order for delivery, but I’m not really a fan of that option.
Overall I went with ⁵⁄₅ stars since really this is an impressive new brewery. The most important part — the beers; are mostly very good and I’d imagine only will get better. The selection is great for such a new brewery as well. The tap room itself is beautiful, and the staff friendly and attentive (maybe even over staffed). I will be back here for more pints in the future.