Although beer is probably the official adult beverage of summer festival season, not everyone is a fan of plastic cups filled with suds. Luckily, many fests offer alternative alcoholic beverages.
The first snow fall caught me off guard last night after a weekend of lovely 70s, and while I’ve lived in Wisconsin long enough to know better, I still yearn for some quick sign so I know to say goodbye to summer and really relish the last warm, sunny day before fall hits us with temperatures in the 20s.
It's rumored that our state is not only populated with beer swillers, but brandy slammers as well. A few Internet sites even reported that Wisconsin is responsible for 90 percent of the world's brandy consumption, so we decided to go straight to the source: Korbel, the top brandy maker in the United States.
Bay View is heading south, right down Kinnickinnic Aveue, right into St. Francis. Just last week the St. Francis Brewery opened on the corner of Howard Avenue and KK. Cardinal Stritch is set to open up a campus in what is now the Cousin's Center. And, I was recently presented ...