A tricky subject that’s come up a few times in my local Fb food groups. A brewery here had allowed ‘unrestricted’ access for kids of all ages… until the younger ones started tearing out landscaping elements and generally creating havoc.
Updated rules allow children until early evening.
Interestingly enough, most beer gardens in Berlin allow kids, with one of our all-time favorites even including a play area with a sandbox and a swing.
It all goes back to the parents not parenting. C’mon - parents Emailed a complaint to an owner when their child crawled under a fence and wound up in the parking lot? As that owner said “I built a beer garden; not Guantanamo.”
It’s a HUGE safety factor for servers if kids are running around the aisles while servers are carrying trays of beer or food and a kid runs into one of them, dropping heavy glasses of beer or plates of food on the kid. And then the parent sues the establishment, because they weren’t doing their job of parenting? You can’t expect beer halls to all have an enclosed “play area” for the kids to be in while the parents drink.
Bad apples spoil it for the rest of the families whose children actually behave properly in public.
I thought this was hilarious:
“Kids are the only category where we very openly, very publicly discriminate,” said Aurore Stanek-Griffiths, a 39-year-old parent in Red Hook, N.Y. “If I tell you I run a business and during certain hours people over age 50 aren’t allowed, you would be like, ‘Why?!’”
Dunno… do 50 yr olds climb trees, or mess with landscaping, or require a portable potty? 
Many more breweries still choose to cater to families with young children by offering play areas or even building playgrounds. At Almanac Adventureland in Alameda, Calif., parents will find sandboxes, bouncy houses, arcades, a large lawn with games and more. The company, previously called Almanac Beer Company, rebranded as part of its kid-friendly expansion.
Taking their cue from what we do in the fatherland 
I think a general lack of parenting awareness is becoming more prevalent. Children who aren’t being engaged properly by their caring adult leads to misbehaviour. In public spaces this can lead to problems. One of the huge issues is exposure of children to screens from a very young age. Adults don’t seem to want to look after kids anymore - they let screens do the job of parenting. I don’t work in a brewery, but my department of neonatal intensive care has made a huge effort to be a family-friendly space and welcoming to the siblings of sick babies. But we get parents not minding their energetic toddlers, who run off and push buttons of important equipment, scream, run into nurses trying to do delicate tasks for sick babies, run and touch other babies and make other parents angry. Once I politely told a father he needed to mind his 4 year old who was running around the room of unwell babies and taking toys from the personal area of a baby who had a serious multiresistant bug (I didn’t say the baby had a multiresistant bug, I just emphasised that touching toys belonging to a different baby was not good for infection control and now we would have to clean the toys and his child should wash their hands). The dad became quite angry with me and asked why I had kept toys in the room if his child couldn’t play with them! FFS this is a hospital, not a play area! I told him that in more polite terms and that it was not right if his child was entering what was clearly another baby’s bed space and grabbing toys that clearly belonged to that baby. What has the world come to if doctors have to waste time policing parents and their kids instead of concentrating on looking after sick babies. Jeez. This is a pet peeve, you can probably tell!
