This Weeks Articles for 2/11/2023 ...
- Timekeeper Distillery, A Taste of Manila team up for pop-up food events...
- `Let`s drink beer outside`: New beer fest in Green Bay invites attendees to lean into winter in Wisconsin...
- New brewery aims to fill need in De Pere area...
- Where to Find Marvelous Mocktails in Wisconsin...
- Five on Five: Fruit(ed) Beer...
- Door Peninsula Winery Valentine`s Sweepstakes ...
- 7 Great Whiskeys From Around the US to Drink During Super Bowl LVII...
- How to build the perfect beer lineup for your Super Bowl 57 party...
- Central Standard Winter Luau to feature pig roast by Aaron Patin & Smokey Woods...
- Three road trips that are even better in winter ...
- The best brewery-hotel in Wisconsin...
- February beers to watch for and a few January beers to grab before they’re gone...
- Regional Sales Manager Stevens Point Brewery ...
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Wisconsin brewery Leinenkugel`s has announced its first foray into sour beer.The Chippewa Falls-based brewery, best known for its popular Summer Shandy, a weiss beer with lemonade flavoring, has chosen peach as the base for its first session-sour style beer.
Called Juicy Peach, the brewery says the new beer "balances delicious sweetness from natural peach juice with subtle tart notes."
"It is just tart enough to keep it interesting, but not overly sour, giving you the thirst-quenching, easy drinking flavor experience that is the perfect sweet pairing to balance out your next charcuterie board," it added....
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If you’ve lived in Madison for a long time or even a short one, chances are you’ve run into the name “Wollersheim Winery” at a restaurant, event or grocery story. Wollersheim Winery & Distillery, located in nearby Prairie du Sac, has made a name for itself in the community, and 2022 marks the 50th anniversary for the winery.
“I really look at it as a milestone,” co-owner Julie Coquard says. “I think we just really feel a deep connection to people that buy our products and have either visited here or just really enjoyed the wine and spirits, and to see how much we can be a part of people’s everyday life is really cool.”...
Ken Notes: Great read and a great road trip! I need to try the Garden Gate...
According to DJ Kowalske, Component’s dunkel is ready and is in cans at the new brewery. You can order online. They’re also working on an Italian pilsner that should be ready in the coming weeks. Salute! ...
...Gathering Place, which hosts Gallery Night on Friday, has expanded its newly refreshed taproom hours, and is now open Monday and Wednesday, 4-8 p.m., Thursday and Friday, 4-10, Saturday, 2-10 and Sunday, 2-6. Tours are available Saturdays at 3 and 3:45 p.m...
...Hacienda brings back its Soul Memory Black Lager this weekend, with a member release on Friday and public release Saturday...
...Indeed Brewing has shared its brand calendar for the year and there’s some interesting stuff coming...
...Sheboygan’s 3 Sheeps, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary in May...
Three distinctly different hotels and cool sights present visitors with win-win choices
- County Clare Irish Inn & Pub
- The Iron Horse Hotel
- Saint Kate - The Arts Hotel
Ken Notes: Great story and all of these are Walking distance from great craft breweries, distilleries, and wineries. The Iron Horse is also on my bucket list, for the perfect weekend - MobCrart, Great Lakes Distillery, Harley-Davidson Museum, Third Ward - PERFECT!!
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As you may have noticed, a new asphalt recreational trail was constructed this past fall along U.S. Hwy 12-18 at the entrance to Cambridge. The Phil Van Valkenberg Connector Trail starts from a safe crossing at State Highway 134, continues through The Vineyards at Cambridge development, past the Dancing Goat Distillery and up to State Farm Road on Cambridge Foundation land.......more
Ken Notes: I was looking for an excuse to get back on the bike!
ou’ve heard a lot in this space about the challenges breweries have with flagships. Establishing one is really hard. Building it to its potential is hard. Improving it without losing what people love about it is hard. Maintaining it as a go-to when people crave something new is hard.All of that is especially hard when that flagship beer isn’t available year-round.
That’s the case, kind of, with Hinterland Beer and its popular Door County Cherry Wheat, a beer with a long history at the Green Bay brewery that’s turning 27 this year....
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The new exhibit will feature memorabilia created for bars and taverns that promoted the town`s breweries
The Milwaukee Beer Line ran north of Milwaukee`s downtown area in 1952. Its three main brewing company distributors were Pabst, Blatz and Schlitz.
Freight trains would carry grains to the breweries then finished beer to surrounding communities. It also served industries like lumber, oil, steel and food.
The new exhibit is called "The Milwaukee Beer Line: From Grain to Glass."...
One Wisconsin brewing and craft soda company joined KARE11 Saturday to show how people are using their sodas to make one-of-a-kind cocktails.
MINNEAPOLIS — As the coronavirus pandemic is about to enter it`s third year, more people are taking to making specialty cocktails. One Wisconsin brewing and craft soda company joined KARE11 Saturday to show how people are using their sodas to make one-of-a-kind cocktails.Sprecher Brewing, Co., which is based in Milwaukee, has seen a huge growth in sales of their craft sodas and root beer as more people people pay greater attention to how they prepare their drinks and specialty cocktails.
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#10 Become your own bartender
Pick up one of State Line Distillery’s many cocktail kits, which all include spirits made in Madison from Wisconsin grains. Get that downtown bar feel without having to pack into a tight space. Choose a vodka-, rum- or gin-based concoction and serve your love on the rocks. $24-45. Click here for more information
SUAMICO – Beer and cheese – can’t get much more Wisconsin than that, right?888 Cheese & Co., located in the former Taco John’s off Lineville in Suamico, opened at the end of last year next to Ahnapee Brewery. The lifelong dream of owners Juan and Brandy Hernandez, 888 is the area’s only grilled cheese-inspired restaurant.
“Wisconsin is known for cheese, and grilled cheese is a staple comfort food growing up for most from the area,” Brandy said. “So we took it a step further and made it fun and different. There is not a grilled cheese restaurant in the surrounding area.”
The dream
How To Make An Old Fashioned
Say, how old is that opened bottle of vermouth in the back of your refrigerator, anyway? What`s that? It`s not even refrigerated, it`s just on your bar cart, and it`s been open for a year?Uh-oh. That`s vermouth gone bad.
Eric Berg knows vermouth has a limited shelf life before it turns skunky, and now he and his business partner have addressed that: They`re making a Wisconsin vermouth they call Lasdon and selling it in packs of six tiny bottles that are 60 milliliters each, the equivalent of about 2 ounces.
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Ken Notes: We ran this news a while ago but great to see new press on the story!
Long considered an aphrodisiac, oysters will appear on many Valentine’s Day dinners, but pairing them with the wrong wine could ruin the romantic vibes. We’ve taken the guesswork out of matching so here’s a roundup of wines that work with oysters.Blind Horse Winery 2019 Sparkling Brut, $39
Made from 100 percent local, Wisconsin grapes, this is Blind Horse Winery’s first debut in the sparkling realm. Made with La Crosse grapes from the nearby White Tail Vineyards, this bubbly boasts green apple on the mid palate with a dry, crisp acuity with just a hint of sweetness. “This brut pairs well with sushi, oysters, lobster, celebrations and fun,” says Tom Nye, master winemaker and general manager. “It’s a sparkling wine that can stand up to any sparkling wine anywhere.”...more
Ken Notes: WOW National nod for a Wisconsin Craft product if Forbes, yep Forbes!!!!
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