American Sky Brewing Co.

 

 

I love this brewery and their owners as well as their bartenders. They explore many different styles while excelling with the standard beers. They are very forward thinking. The atmosphere rocks with live bands and celebrations regularly.

 

This is a small brewery that opened in 2012 and has been supplying Wisconsin with beer for the past two years and will soon open up distribution to Minnesota. We happened to get there on a special Spring Fest event day, so the place was hopping! A very good blues trio was playing and The Hangar was quite loud. They had a cool small circular bar near the entrance that was either made of silver plane wing or at least made to look like it. Flags and pictures of WWII aviation lined the walls. Picnic tables were set up further in the warehouse and we joined a very nice family from the area who gave us the local beer rundown in between sets of music.

They had several special release spring flavored beers including one with grapefruit, one with lavender and a peaches n' cream. They did not have samplers during the busy festival so I opted for a pint of the Cherry Blossom: a cherry infused version of their red ale. The beer was not terrible, but the cherry was certainly extract or flavoring and lent a cough syrup flavor to the beer. My wife's thoughts were that it tasted like Ludens Cough Drops, but not as bad as Cherry Robo! The wife won this round with her pint of American Velvet, a pleasant coffee infused stout. I would have loved to try the rest, but we had other places to go! This was a fun little stop and worth a check.