Wisconsin Brewing Company Park is a new baseball stadium in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, which is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. WBC Park is home to the Lake Country DockHounds, which are part of the American Association of Professional Baseball, but it’s also a 17-acre community entertainment venue that is perfect for concerts, movies, festivals, weddings and probably the CBB summer party. What truly sets this baseball cathedral apart from every other park is its onsite brewery called Lake Louie Brewing — The DockHaus.
As Kirby Nelson, brewmaster at Wisconsin Brewing Co., puts it in the video above: “It’s a great idea because what goes better together than baseball and beer?”
Wisconsin Brewing Co. acquired the Lake Louie Brewery brand in 2019, and the craft brewery continues to catch our attention as it sealed a sponsorship deal for the DockHounds baseball park where the brewery has set up a sweet 5-bbl, three-vessel ProBrew system. This small brewhouse includes a cereal cooker, mash/lauter tun and boil kettle. The ProBrew brand was a great local fit for Wisconsin Brewing as it’s based in nearby Waukesha, Wisconsin. ProBrew is a supplier of brewery and beverage processing equipment. The company makes all types of beer iron from entire brewhouses to focuses on vessels, carbonation, filling and packaging. It’s worked with everyone from Sam Adams to Coca-Cola. For Wisconsin Brewing, the company not only provided the brewhouse, but…
“We also provided the cellar for fermentation and cold side of the brewing process,” explains Andrew Ignasiak, process engineer at ProBrew in the video above.
The brewery is located on the second floor of the park behind a wall of glass next to a restaurant and tasting room along the first base line. Here’s another look at it:
Brewmaster Nelson and Wisconsin Brewing are expected to use the space to make experimental and specialty brews that will be served at the baseball stadium and the WBC taproom in Verona, Wisconsin. The entire ballpark opened last season, and The DockHaus opened in the spring. From a Wisconsin State Journal article written by Barry Adams:
For Sonny Bando, 49, the brewery is a natural fit for the ballpark and will be celebrated with a public grand opening at 5 p.m. April 14.
“I think its a great marriage, baseball and beer,” Bando said, as we stood behind home plate. “This type of stadium reminds me more of County Stadium than the new facilities because it’s the simplicity of it all. The seating was very simple. The beers were delicious, and it was affordable.”
Most seats for DockHounds games are $13, with tickets to sit on a grass berm down the left field line going for $8.
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