Red Wing Brewery — Restaurant in Red Wing

To Beer or Not To Beer?

It's a really good question that you have to ask yourself when visiting Red Wing Brewery after talking to some friends of yours that have visited already and know what I'm looking for in beer and food. So, do I beer it up, I do I not? I decided to check this place out, but was it a regrettable decision?

I haven't been made aware of anything exciting in Red Wing to check out and I had to ask around to see if anything was worth checking out. Some friends of mine told us we had to try the pizza at Red Wing Brewery before mentioning anything about the brews. I thought to myself, "Really, the pizza?" They get all of their ingredients locally to make their pizzas and they looked amazing as they were bringing out pizza after pizza. One of my friends said it's the crust that makes their pizzas so awesome. Ok, lets give it a whirl!

You can order up your own personal pizza or a full size to share. I decided to order up a personal meat lovers pizza while my wife decided to build her own. My wife went for pepperoni, green olives and onions while my meat lovers was prepared with garlic white sauce, mozzarella, cheddar, pepperoni, ham and sausage. When they arrived, they definitely looked enjoyable. But, after taking a quick bite of a sausage, I asked my wife, "What does this taste like to you?"

I asked that question, because the first thing that came to my mind was a sausage from Pizza Hut or Domino's. No, seriously, that's exactly what we both thought of after trying their sausage. As for the rest of the flavor and the crust, well if they didn't have the crust they had, this really would just be a glorified Pizza Hut with a brewery attached to it.

As for their beer that I know you've been dying to know about, well, I wouldn't go out of my way to check this place out. I went for a flight of everything they had on tap and their wheat's had too similar of flavors as did their full body brews, but there was a single beer that I did actually enjoy and that was their Ski Jump Special. All in all though, their brews were very bland, boring and not all that creative. Something about the beers being made in this state that just aren't exciting EXCEPT for places like; Lakeville Brewery, Modist Brewery, Insight Brewery and Castle Danger.

So, the questions remains for you... Are you going to beer it up at Red Wing Brewery or pass? The decision is up to you and everyone has a liking for different beers, but I guess I'm just used to exceptionally made beer from Oregon and my few favorites previously mentioned. The decision is yours! But, just know, there ins't much else to choose from in Red Wing if you have the same feelings as I...

Update 12/3/2019: We haven't gone back to Red Wing Brewery since our last order for pick-up but maybe we'll give it a shot again in the near future. Our 50% disappointment rate has us second guessing the return trip there.

New review from 3/3/2018 (copied from our Yelp reviews): Ordered two pizzas for pick-up since I had friends coming over for dinner (and I had just worked a 12-hr shift). Had to decide between Marie's or RWB and chose RWB after a heated discussion at work regarding who had the better pizza for the $. Since my initial experience was great I figured it was worth the $ to drop $40-something on two large pizzas. Sadly I was mistaken. When we got there the staff indicated that both pizzas had JUST come out of the oven (which, once ready & boxed, they opened boxes facing them and inspected before sending us on our way). We hurried back to the house to meet our other friend who was coming over and didn't bother to reinspect before leaving. One pizza had ingredients added that weren't indicated (& I couldn't eat) while the other, a plain cheese pizza, was terribly overcooked. The cheese pizza was overcooked to the extent that microwaving for 20 seconds (once we got back to the house) provided minimal results in softening the cheese and crust. I'm attaching a photo. I think I'll give this place one more shot as they say "3rd time's the charm" but for significantly less $ we could have just ordered Dominos and not have been disappointed.

Initial Review (and 5-star rating) - 2/9/2018: Went here to celebrate my birthday with my mother after hearing raves from coworkers on their pizza. Had an awesome time at RWB and their homemade root beer is awesome! Pizza was AMAZING! Can't wait to...

Maybe my buddy and I went here on a bad day but we tried the pizza here and pizza fries and the pizza fries were good, 8.9 out of 10 for the fries. The pizza on the other hand was 1.6 out of 10, we asked for it well done and it came out normal bake. Crust was so floppy the pizza was practically falling apart, tried reheating the remainder at home and my goodness it turned into mush, I ended up throwing the other half of the pizza away! The amount of sausage on this pizza could have fed a family of 6 people, please ease up on the sausage. I've tried hundreds of pizzas around the Midwest and a handful on the east coast and this was at the bottom of the list by far. Work on cooking your dough all the way through by putting less toppings directly in the middle of the pie. Now that I have access to a computer the rhymes are gone. Do not get me wrong your staff is excellent! Your pizza was just undercooked to the point where the dough was raw. As I also said at the beginning of the review, maybe we were in...