We Checked Out the Central Waters Taproom on Hallowed Beer Ground

Back in 2017, Pabst tried to create a modern-day brewing destination on the sprawling campus where it had made beer for more than a century. It was a feel-good story – the return of a hometown favorite to brew the first beer on Pabst’s hallowed grounds in decades –?but it never got much traction and the little brewpub closed in December 2020.? 

Less than a year after that closing, a relatively tiny brewery from central Wisconsin has taken over the space and succeeded where the behemoth failed.? 

The 24-year-old Central Waters Brewing of Amherst is unquestionably one of the best breweries in the state....