Brewers Tease New Powder Blue Uniforms For 2026 Season

Too many uniforms: home cream, home pinstripes, away gray, alternate blue tops, city connects, and now a powder blue alternate Jersey?
 

A branding nightmare, and a ploy to separate folks from their money buying the latest jersey.

Pick a home, road and alternate and stick with it. 

This new Alternate is replacing the Road Grays as those won't be worn at all in 2026.

Kinda surprised by that.

Cowards should've gone full powder blue!

19 minutes ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I believe the maximum number of uniforms allowed is four, so one of the 2025 uniforms is phased out.

Yes, Road Greys wont be worn in 2026.

Maybe I’m too cynical or perhaps just a curmudgeon but they just changed color schemes before the 2020 season to Navy blue, Cream and gold. Added a City Connect two years ago. Now they’re introducing a new color scheme as a road/alternate uniform. Smells to me like jersey sales were soft this year. (Not to mention kind of a half-assed approach in not just going full retro powder blue).

Then just from a swagger/aesthetic vibe in the post season at Wrigley the stands were an ocean of cubbie blue, dodger blue in LA. But up at AmFam it was a mish mash of different colors, jerseys and a half dozen mascots giving off circus vibes more than heritage baseball swagger. 

Have they really not worn powder blues like this in games in recent years?  I don't pay attention to this stuff, but we've been seeing versions of this sold for years now, so I guess I assumed at some point they wore them in games.     If that's true, it does make sense to use them in games since they're one of the best sellers already so people like them. Give the people what they want.  Just like when they finally caved and brought back the ball and glove logo, fans were choosing to wear it anyway because its so much better.

Jerseys are perfect, I've been wanting them to go back to real powder blue forever.

The fact that the pants are grey and not also powder blue is a huge miss and looks terrible.

15 hours ago, Vgmastr said:

The fact that the pants are grey and not also powder blue is a huge miss and looks terrible.

100%

15 minutes ago, hawing said:

Since these are being characterized as alternate road jerseys, I'd think the odd jersey out, so to speak, is the navy with the gold script Milwaukee.  I'll miss that style if it is in fact phased out. 

I also can't fathom why they'd pair the new jersey with gray pants, unless that's somehow a MLB or Nike issue.  

Sounds like the road grays are the ones being replaced and supposedly there were will be a new city connect as those rotate every 3 years I guess?

Road - Powder Blue, Navy Blue

Home - Cream, Pinstripe

City Connect - TBD

I agree with the consensus that gray pants with the powder blue was a miss. Should have gone full powder blue. I also think I would have preferred keeping the road grays as the secondary road jersey not the Navy Blue.

5 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Sounds like the road grays are the ones being replaced and supposedly there were will be a new city connect as those rotate every 3 years I guess?

Road - Powder Blue, Navy Blue

Home - Cream, Pinstripe

City Connect - TBD

I agree with the consensus that gray pants with the powder blue was a miss. Should have gone full powder blue. I also think I would have preferred keeping the road grays as the secondary road jersey not the Navy Blue.

Agreed, the Navy road Alternate is terrible.... Road Gray and Road Alternate Powder Blue should be the choice!

51 minutes ago, Underachiever said:

Come on, this is silly. Sea of Cubbie Blue?

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I’m not a jersey guy. Don’t own one, wouldn’t buy one. So the Brewers introducing their 5th New Jersey in the last five years, looks like a cheap cash grab to me. But obviously there are folks who are into jerseys, collect them, etc. and they’re probably excited.

From an intangible perspective, I wish the Brewers would choose an identity and stick with it. Be retro and wear the 80’s pinstripes at home and powder blue on the road. Great. Or wear the cream colored jersey at home and the traditional traveling grays with Milwaukee on the chest. But when you seemingly where a different uni each night and have a half dozen mascots running around your stadium, it’s not the kind of image/identity typically associated with a club that’s won their division 4 of the last 5 years and been in the post season 7 of the last 8 seasons. 

23 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

Maybe I’m too cynical or perhaps just a curmudgeon but they just changed color schemes before the 2020 season to Navy blue, Cream and gold. Added a City Connect two years ago. Now they’re introducing a new color scheme as a road/alternate uniform. Smells to me like jersey sales were soft this year. (Not to mention kind of a half-assed approach in not just going full retro powder blue).

Then just from a swagger/aesthetic vibe in the post season at Wrigley the stands were an ocean of cubbie blue, dodger blue in LA. But up at AmFam it was a mish mash of different colors, jerseys and a half dozen mascots giving off circus vibes more than heritage baseball swagger. 

The Cubs literally introduced a powder blue jersey last season.

1 hour ago, Underachiever said:

"Fans should all dress the same for swagger. Not me though. I don't own a jersey."

LOL. I felt like I was in an "ocean" of Brewer fans when I was at the playoff games. There was a sea of yellow towels waving all night. You had to have seen that. I'm sure the guy who argued with me that it didn't seem like the crowd was loud enough from his vantage point on the couch would agree with you. 

Yep, jerseys aren’t my style. Seemed pretty loud when I was there for all the playoff games this year 🤯, but good on you for challenging one’s fandom.  I can tell you jersey wearing crowd was certainly a hodge podge mix. 

I like the gear.  Brewer apparel has been really good since 2020.  But I don’t understand  the pants.  I am a zero in terms of matching in fashion but they don’t look right.   

On 12/4/2025 at 12:22 PM, Brock Beauchamp said:

To my knowledge, the Brewers have never used "Milwaukee" on a powder blue jersey, making these likely to be road uniforms. The block font is a throwback, but only to jerseys that read "Brewers" in the 1970s and 1980s. Milwaukee was typically written in a script font, not dissimilar to the current dark blue jerseys worn on the road.

I think you missed the obvious.  Look at the road uni's from the '82 World Series.  From 1978-1984, the road powder blue jerseys had "Milwaukee" on them.  See the links below.

This long-time fan's thoughts (old man yelling at cloud, perhaps)...

The gray jersey's going away.  I don't like that.  The nostalgia for powder blue?  Yuck.  I lived through that era and was so, so glad when then finally went away -- such a needed change! -- and I'd still prefer that it never come back (too late now)!  The gray look was more "classic" whereas most things rooted in the '70s trends were seen as being pretty dated and otherwise ugly at the time (though to me, the Expos' switch to home pinstripes and road grays was a step backwards and a desecration of one of the coolest uniforms ever).

Starting with the unveiling of the 1994 uniforms at BrewerFest, I've always loved the navy blue alternate jerseys the best until the current one.  The weird font & the yellow piping to me are awful.  I wish they'd just used the same font/wordmark as on the other jerseys.

My favorite Brewers uniforms ever were the prior set, used from 2000-2019.  Classic, classy, & timeless.  The M/barley logo was clever and classy.  To me, their only shortcoming was not permanently using the brilliant, cool, & classy MB/ball-glove/WI-outline logo on one sleeve while using the M/barley logo (of course in navy & gold) on the other. . . . Other than maybe the current home pinstripe uniforms, nothing in the current uniform set is better than the 2000-2019 uniforms.  When the current uniforms were unveiled for 2020, they were nothing short of a major disappointment for me.  They screwed with what I thought was perfection and, overall, I thought the results stunk.

https://www.sportslogos.net/logos/view/igsm9vaqn7odfecf5foahzjce/Milwaukee-Brewers-Logo/1978/Jersey-Logo

https://www.sportslogos.net/logos/view/147797541978/Milwaukee-Brewers-Logo/1978/Road-Uniform