This is a great location - picturesque with both indoor and outdoor seating.
HOWEVER, our experience was not what we had expected and wanted it to be. We had gone to Warwick Brewing Farm over two months before our event, had a beer, and asked to speak to a manager. Woman behind the bar said we could speak to her. We told her we were looking to have an engagement celebration, but we wanted to be inside for a variety of reasons. A handicapped person who minds the heat, some older people who can't do picnic tables. I asked if we could have an engagement celebration gathering and use a bunch of the tables inside. They said yes, we could do that. It would just be first come, first served, so get there early to grab the tables, but yes, we could do that. Asked if we could bring food? Yes, we were told. Could we sit at tables inside and put food out on the tables? Yes, we were told. We were told we could bring snacks, cupcakes, even a cooler-full of non-alcoholic beverages. Yes, we were told that would all be fine, yes that was all permitted. As long as we didn't go crazy with bringing food from the outside, because they want us to use the food trucks. So we didn't go crazy with food, AND we ran tabs at the food trucks for our guests as well as at the bars. Again, spending a decent amount of money at this brewery and at the food trucks. This was to be a special event for our family. We were bringing 35 beer drinkers - a good amount of business for them AND for the food trucks. And because they told us this was all perfectly fine, we went ahead and planned our event two months ahead of the date. The date was this past Saturday. We arrived 2-1/2 hours early to try to get tables. And luckily there were tables inside, so we started to lay things out. However, immediately a man (owner?) came up to us and said, no we were not allowed to take up tables inside. We were not allowed to have a group of people sitting at tables inside. We were not allowed to have food out on tables inside (even though we kept the food to a minimum just as they had told us to do). He said we would have to go outside because he wanted to keep the tables inside and on the porch clear for other guests. I told him we had come two months ago and cleared our plans with his staff. He told us sorry, they were wrong and told us the wrong thing. WHAT?! He repeated that he didn't want the tables inside taken up by a group. I asked what the difference was between us and other random guests just all taking up tables inside if we were all paying customers. We were bringing a lot of paying business. A lot of beer drinkers. We were just like anyone else who would gather at tables inside. He said "we are not a party venue." Everything he said was opposite of what we had been told by his staff when we were there two months earlier meeting with them to make sure it would be ok to do what we planned to do. In the end, this man shooed us outside and said we could set up however we wanted outside, but his employee had been wrong and we could not set up inside. It was extremely disappointing because we had gotten approval from them ahead of time! Being outside was not ideal and not what we had wanted. We did not want picnic tables. We never would have planned to have our gathering there had we known we would have to be outside at the picnic tables. WHICH IS WHY WE CHECKED AHEAD OF TIME.
To make matters worse, later in the day we noticed there was a group on the porch who did exactly what we were told we couldn't do by this man when we got there. This other group had set up at tables on the porch, strung banners across the railings. Had a celebration going w/food on the porch, where we were just told we couldn't be for our celebration.
What the heck owners? You need to get your staff and story straight on these things. Apologies don't go far when someone has a special event planned and went to a lot of trouble to plan it and even had it approved ahead of time for being inside, only be told the moment we arrived that we could not do that. Our group had a good time, but only because WE made it so. WE made the best of things. It was definitely NOT ideal. And it was completely disappointing. The man's behavior rather ruined the beginning of our celebration. Our elder guests and handicapped guests had difficulty and we had to take the handicapped person home. This brewery does have a lift for wheelchairs and people with walkers, which is great. BUT when you're not allowed to be inside as a group, a mulch-filled picnic area is not well-suited for handicapped or older patrons. Which is another reason we had checked months in advance about getting tables inside. We did everything right, but you can't trust what you're told. Don't know that we'll ever be back. read more