Eagle Park Brewing celebrates its seventh anniversary with a party at its Muskego HQ, S64 W15640 Commerce Center Pkwy, on June 15 from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m.
In addition to live music (details coming soon), the event will feature four beer releases:
- Stave: 7th Anniversary Blend, barrel-aged stout, ABV to come, on draft and in 12-ounce cans.
- Stave: Port Cask Finish, stout, aged two years in bourbon barrels and finished nine months in port wine casks, ABV to come, on draft and in 12-ounce cans.
- 7th Anniversary Hazy IPA, 7 percent ABV, seven pounds of seven hop varieties in each barrel!
- Krystal Kooler, cola hard seltzer, 5 percent ABV, draft only.
There will also be a number of guest taps from other Midwest breweries, including Drekker, Goldfinger and others.
Tickets are $6 and can be purchased here.
This is an all-ages, rain or shine event. Under-21s are free, but must be accompanied by an adult.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
