Sampling the Top 100 Beer Bars

Our blogger’s ongoing quest to visit all 100 of Draft Magazine’s top beer bars. Plus: hardware for Sprecher Brewery, Budweiser’s “America” label and more.

Milwaukee’s Craft Beer Resurgence

Good City, Third Space, Like Minds and Black Husky are leading Milwaukee’s new brewery boom. Find out when they are opening this summer. Plus: a look ahead to beer festivals coming in early June, this week’s events and more.

Cheers to Sprecher

Raise a glass to the craft beer trailblazers at Sprecher as the brewery celebrates 30 years with an anniversary bash this weekend.

Saying “I Do” With a Brew

Those of us who live in the Milwaukee area probably don’t think of our great city as a prime location for destination weddings. However as a wedding planner I get a lot of calls from out-of-state couples who due to either family or sometimes collegiate ties are looking to make Brew City the destination of choice for their pending nuptials. Since these weddings are technically destination weddings in Milwaukee, most of these couples want a location for their event that has a unique Milwaukee feel. Now us locals know that our great city has more to it than brats, beer…

Sprecher Brewery Tour

I had a visitor in town this weekend from Austin. As host, it was my duty to show her that Milwaukee is where you go to have a good time. I wanted to make sure she experienced the Lakefront Brewery Tour, but it was closed for Memorial Day. Sprecher was the back-up plan, and I was pleasantly surprised. There were about 30 people on the tour, and our guide was accommodating to the large crew. She made eye contact, cracked a few jokes and knew what she was talking about. What more could you ask for? A beer. Unlike Lakefront,…