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Friday, July 28 7-11pm

Milwaukee Craft Brewery Week Kick off event! Start out at your choice of the following breweries, then just hop on the FREE shuttle and go to the next one! Enjoy the first release of collaboration beers by your favorite Milwaukee area breweries! Collaborating Breweries: MobCraft, D14, Explorium, Third Space, Good City, Raised Grain, Enlightened, Lakefront, City Lights, Milwaukee Brewing, Eagle Park, 1840, Westallion, Bavarian Bierhaus, Biloba and The Fermentorium

Multiple Locations D14 Brewery & Pub • Enlightened Brewing Company • Eagle Park Brewing Company • Mobcraft Beer Milwaukee Ale House • Broken Bat Brewing Co. • Third Space Brewing • City Lights Brewing Co.

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Old Coast Guard Pavilion Park

Come on out to the 8th Annual Milwaukee Brewfest! Milwaukee’s largest beer festival set on the lake at Old Coast Pavilion Park. This year the MCBL will be providing some special beers for the VIP tent and will all be grouped together making it easy to DRINK BREW CITY!

Sunday, July 30 Noon-7pm Brown Deer Park Disc Golf Course

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Starting a Brewery: Risk, Reward, and Red Tape

The Explorium Brewpub is hosting an educational session focusing on opening a new brewery.

Moderated by The Crafter Space, this session will include presentations by industry experts followed by a Q&A session. Tickets still available.

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Monday, July 31 7-10pm Old Explorium Brewpub 5300 S. 76th St. (SOUTHRIDGE MALL)

Tuesday, Aug. 1 Liquid Bread Food Drive 3-9pm Help us support Hunger Task Force and Drink Brew City! Starting Thursday, July 20, drop off nonHumboldt Park perishable food items at any MCBL brewery and receive a coupon for a HALF-PRICE beer at the event.

Donations also accepted day of the event. Select from 17 unique beers from 17 different MCBL breweries Beer Garden while enjoying the beautiful Humboldt Park Beer Garden. MilwaukeeCraftBreweryWeek.com 3000 S. Howell Ave.

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$1 off beer at all MCBL Breweries! Check in with your favorite brewery for hours and additional specials. MilwaukeeCraftBreweryWeek.com

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MCBL Tap Takeovers Urban Bay View 2301 S. Logan Ave. Milwaukee

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What pairs well with some righteous tunes? Local beer of course! For this Milwaukee Craft Brewery Week Street Party, each of the participating breweries will be pairing one of their own creations during each bands set. MilwaukeeCraftBreweryWeek.com

Saturday, Aug. 5 Noon-5pm Third Space Brewing 1505 W. St. Paul Ave.

Friday, Aug. 4 3-10pm Mobcraft Beer Brewery and Taproom 505 S. 5th St.

Wisconsin IPA Fest

Help us crown Wisconsin’s Best IPA at the inaugural Wisconsin IPA fest at Third Space Brewing.

We have invited all 126 breweries and brewpubs in the state of Wisconsin to submit their best IPA for public sampling and judging by their brewer peers. Admission is free and sampling tickets will be available for purchase on site. MilwaukeeCraftBreweryWeek.com

2nd Annual Project Terroir Beer Festival and Street Party

Free to attend! All participating breweries will produce a beer from a specific, identical ingredient list with the intent on making a unique beer. Hops and grain are all specific variety and quantity scaled per brewing system size. Come try them all! Live music, great food and all the Brew City you can drink! Tasting cards available on site. Sponsored by Malteurop MilwaukeeCraftBreweryWeek.com SUMMER DRINK

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sense that the Milwaukee area embraces the beer garden (biergarten in German). They’re community gathering places where relaxing with a beer, your family and your four-legged friends is the only objective. So, grab some sunscreen, a lawn game and your eight closest friends and head to one of these 10 beer gardens this summer.

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Located in Glendale off I-43 and the Oak Leaf Trail, Bavarian Bierhaus features a Munich-inspired beerhall with a 15 bbl. brewery, outdoor patio and dog-friendly beer garden, as well as indoor event spaces for parties and groups. Plus, the menu is a crowd-pleaser. Bavarian Bierhaus is home for festivals such as Mayfest and Oktoberfest. Free brewery tours are offered every Friday at 4:30 p.m. Heffeweizen and Maibock are perfect for summer.

Biergarten at the Schwabenhof N56 W14750 SILVER SPRING ROAD SCHWABENHOFBANQUETS.COM

Known for their Friday fish fry for decades, Schwabenhof in Menomonee Falls turns their outdoor space into a beer garden every summer. Along with a tree-covered lawn and patio, there is also a large pavilion that’s fully covered with open sides. It’s closed off enough to guard against bad weather, but open enough that you still feel 4 | J U LY 2 0 , 2 0 1 7

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like you’re outside. Beer options tend to be imported from Germany, like Hofbrau and Spaten. Bands often play inside the pavilion, and weekly team trivia is also being played this season.

Croatian Park Beer Garden 9100 S. 76TH ST. CROATIANPARKBEERGARDEN.COM

This beer garden in Franklin takes a German tradition and makes it Croatian. There are seven beers on tap, including Karlovačko imported from Croatia and Croatian Park Ale, which is brewed for the beer garden by Leinenkugel. Mixed drinks, wine and a number of Croatian spirits served as shots are also available. Don’t expect to grab a bratwurst here; instead, they throw ćevapčići—a Croatian sausage, on the grill. This garden is only open on Thursdays, along with a couple Saturdays per summer, but will have live music any time they’re open.

Estabrook Park Beer Garden 4600 ESTABROOK DRIVE ESTABROOKBEERGARDEN.COM

Run by the folks from Old German Beer Hall, Estabrook Park Beer Garden is the self-proclaimed first public beer garden in the U.S. since Prohibition. That seems slightly dubious, but what’s not in question is the convivial atmosphere, thanks to live polka bands, lovely river views and large crowds. Hofbrau beer is served here in massive liter and half-liter glass mugs that require a $5 deposit. Besides bratwurst and giant pretzels with obatzter, grab a Friday fish fry or Saturday schnitzel fry.

Hubbard Park Beer Garden 3565 N. MORRIS BLVD. HUBBARDPARKBEERGARDEN.COM

Hubbard Park Beer Garden is especially popular with bicyclists since it sits just off the Oak Leaf Trail. You’ll see many bikes locked to the bike racks on any given night as the bikers stop for a drink. If you drive there, follow the Hobbit-like footpath tunnel from the parking lot to Hubbard Park Lodge. In addition to 10 taps, they also serve loaded bloody marys on weekends, Jägermeister, brats and pretzels. On Fridays, grab a fish fry from inside the lodge and eat it at the picnic tables under the trees.

Humboldt Park Beer Garden 3000 S. HOWELL AVE. MILWAUKEESCRAFTBEERGARDEN.COM

Operated by St. Francis Brewery, Humboldt Park Beer Garden has an indoor space complete with communal tables for when the weather gets nasty. Outside, you’ll find plenty of picnic tables, horseshoe pits and shade trees. Beer is dispensed from a cart, and taps include St. Francis brews as well as other local favorites from Lakefront, MKE Brewing and Karben4. Every Friday SHEPHERD EXPRESS

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night is a different tap takeover, so check the schedule if there’s a particular brewery you’d like to try. This spot has a bit more food offered than most, including spinach dip, beer cheese soup and burgers.

The Landing at Hoyt Park

1800 N. SWAN BLVD. FRIENDSOFHOYTPARK.ORG

Adjacent to a community swimming pool, a slightly nautical, beachy theme carries over to The Landing. Lots of canopies and umbrellas provide shade in the summer, which is great for all the kids who join their parents after a day in the pool. The beer list skews local, with a few fartherflung options like Surly and Spaten. The usual giant pretzel is available for snacking, but you can also get 14-inch pizzas from Cranky Al’s. Most nights have live music, and some weekend nights have special food vendors.

South Shore Terrace 2900 S. SHORE DRIVE SOUTHSHORETERRACE.COM

No other permanent beer garden has a view like this one; it’s right on the lake, with views of sailboats and Downtown Milwaukee fireworks. Two fire pits keep you warm on chilly nights, and a pergola provides a bit of shade when it’s hot. The bar, called Miller 1855, serves up Miller-owned taps like Leinenkugel, Blue Moon and Crispin cider.

Bring your own glass or buy one there (this one doesn’t deal with glassware deposits).

They serve a full menu of apps for sharing and sandwiches. Fried cheese curds and cheese boards go particularly well with beer.

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In addition to the permanent Milwaukee County Parks beer gardens on this list, they also operate traveling beer gardens throughout the summer. Two Sprecher Brewery tap trucks roam the County Parks.

One makes stops about three weeks long, while the other hops from park to park about every week and a half. Both trucks have about a dozen taps, including some of Sprecher’s hard sodas and root beer.

When you buy your first pint, you keep the glass, with discounted refills available at any of the park stops. Flights of five taps are available for those that can’t decide or are unfamiliar with Sprecher’s brews. Check the County Parks website (click “2017 Tour Schedule”) for a guide or look for signs in your local park.

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Always a popular stop for the traveling beer gardens, Whitnall Park has its own permanent beer garden for the first time this year. It features a Sprecher Brewing truck with a dozen taps of beer and hard sodas, plus a second tap truck with another dozen beer options. Customers can bring their own glassware and pay the refill price or purchase glassware on site. The food menu includes pretzels, nachos, burgers, sausages and Palermo’s pizza. On some Sundays, about once a month, you can get your fill of barbecue pork when they host a pig roast.

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rdering an Old Fashioned with brandy is as much of a Wisconsin “tell” as asking for a bubbler, reminiscing about the career of Don Majkowski or bragging about your mom’s hot dish.

But the reasons behind the Badger State’s love of brandy is as shrouded in mystery as Haunchyville or the ghosts at the Pfister.

Brandy, which is actually a spirit distilled from a kind of grape wine, has traditionally been treated as an after-dinner drink, served in snifters in homes of the upper crust. But at some point after the repeal of Prohibition, the sweet spirit became a staple of the Wisconsin corner tavern. While the Brandy Old Fashioned was the cocktail of choice, brandy was also popular on the rocks, in boilermakers, or mixed straight with sour or sweet soda. It was enjoyed in nearly every way, both at home and out on the town, except in the traditional post-meal snifter.

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brandy, Milwaukee’s Great Lakes Distillery, cites the demographic makeup of Wisconsin as the reason behind brandy mania. “The tradition of drinking brandy in Wisconsin was initially because of the large settlement of western Europeans in the state who were seeking to enjoy a bit of the homeland in their new county,” says Guy Rehorst, Lakefront’s founder and owner.

But other states with similar European settlement patterns drink only a portion of the brandy Wisconsin does. Other explanations given for the spirit’s popularity—the cold climate, wartime liquor taxes or an affinity for sweet drinks—give hints as to the state’s favor for brandy, but cannot explain why similar areas sip it while Wisconsin guzzles.

Perhaps the Milwaukee Journal got it right way back in 1966 when they investigated why Wisconsinites so loved their brandy. “Alas,” the paper concluded after talking to various liquor distributors, bartenders and drinkers, “every real expert knows the truth: Nobody knows.”

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