August 2, 2009
Couldn’t disagree more with some of the previous reviews of this place. The smoking is off-putting, but according to the waitress, will be outlawed in 2010, until then the locals want smoking allowed. I notice no one has reviewed it in almost a year and maybe the beers have improved since then. They have a black cherry stout that sounds bad, but it was fantastic as was their dopple. Jeff, the owner and brewer, spent over an hour talking to us showing us around. To previous reviewers, please give this place another shot.

October 12, 2008
The inside looks inviting enough with a rustic wooden décor and numerous side distractions like foosball tables, shuffleboard and darts. But this place is the poster boy for making places smoke free. No matter where I went I couldn’t avoid it, the best I could do was off in a corner sitting on a hard wooden bench. Oh well. The food was okay, but the pretty much only offer stuff you can pop in an oven or sandwich maker. The background music was decent, at least until Jon Bland Jovi came on. The beer was below average, mainly over carbonated and there was no signature brew to make me glad I made the hour trip up here. I kind of took the trip on faith since this place has no website and when you call the phone number the phone box says it’s full.

September 10, 2008
A brew haus i stumbled upon when searching for wisc brew pubs. And i am definately glad i found it! I showed up with my girlfriend right after it opened and was greeted by our friendly bartender. The beer was excellent and the environment is very spacious and rustic looking. The aforementioned beer bottle collection is sweet, and really interesting to look at, ecspecially being a younger beer drinker. if you go to sheboygan, check this place out.

January 22, 2008
Original rating from 2003: This is the place Jeff Kolar has moved his Port Washington operation to since parting ways with the original PW location. The Port Washington brands being sold at retail retain the new, while his new brews will be monickered Hops Haven. I found the place the weekend they had opened in an old sock factory. Nice airy rooms with a lot of the original wood flooring (and what had to be torn out was made into the tables. The kitchen wasn’t installed yet, so nothing to do but drink beer. They had five brews available, plus two guest taps and some canned lites for the ladies. Their Pier 96 lager is about the best American lager I’ve found yet. Also worthwhile is the Triple H Hefeweisen, with a less in your face hefe style than normal. The Old Port Porter is excellent too, and as a base for the Black Cherry Porter, it balances the fruit nicely. A friendly place with a nice mom and pop feel to it, in a nice little town.

November 26, 2006
This was a large facility with a pool table, darts, other games, and a few TVs. There were about 20 people in there, and they all knew each other. The bartender was very nice and the 8 beer sampler for $7.50 was very well-priced (good sized samples too). The smoke level was higher than it should have been considering how few people were smoking and how spaced out they were. The beer was pretty good too.

December 26, 2005
I was here recently and as a follow up to Wawood, they replaced their sidewalks outside and have blacktopped their parking lot. I was told they hope to be serving food in the near future. I enjoyed their Triple H and their October Fest beer.

December 1, 2005
This place is a work in progress. The beer selectoin is small but also high quality. There is not much of a craft beer demand in Sheboygan (Budweiser Town!) so the future of the pub is unknown.

September 5, 2005
My experience was somewhat less complete than StewardofGondor’s. I did not sit down and have a beer; I just went in and walked around on a Saturday around 1:30pm. The outside of the building is very bland and not exactly inviting. You can park next to sidewalks that are crumbling in disarray or in back in a gravel lot. There were a handful of patrons when I walked in and they wondered what the heck I was doing walking around without ordering anything. The place has promise. It is a large place with a nice, large hexagonal bar. My biggest complaint is that the wooden floor looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in months. It had the aroma of stale beer, which I actually don’t mind and which I expect from a place that carries on a brewing operation. The neighborhood is a little run down, and it really just seemed like the place needed a facelift. Otherwise, as long as the beer is good, and that may be in question, I see nothing wrong with the place. It could actually see it being quite fun if the place was full.

July 12, 2005
Avoid this place. The beer was pretty bad, and it’s not worth deviating from 43 to make it here. A few locals smoking away, playing darts and yucking it up. Beer served way too cold. Sampler of all taps was about $6. I took the bullet for everyone else. Consider yourself warned...