Great Taste - Underrated Beers/Breweries

I could see a lot of people unfamiliar with WI breweries to overlook Tyranena. They have some really nice offerings per usual.

 

Upper Hand. They don't have the craft beer-iest distro footprint, but they brew solid beer. This is their first Great Taste and will be good opportunity for folks, outside of distro, to give them a try.

 

I'll definitely be checking out Haymarket Pub & Brewery. Always been impressed with their beers.

 

New breweries I am excited to try some beers from: Barley Johns, Burnt City, Imperial Oak, One Trick Pony, Corridor, Forager, Triptych

My favorite, under appreciated homer brewery is easily 2nd Shift

 

Right..I'm looking forward to an Upper Hand taste or two. They do not distribute to the lower peninsula (yet).

 

Good call. I must have glossed over them in the program. Katy is one of my all time favorite beers. I am a bit biased though, because it also my wife's name.

 

This is my first time going; hopefully see you there man!

 

The Real Ale tent in general is way, way too overlooked. The most interesting beers are there, and cask is the best way to drink beer if you ask me.

Off Color anything not Dino Smores. Dino is a great beer (especially with Coffee), but their Tooth and Claw is a phenomenal Pilsner, Yuzu Fierce is a fantastic Berliner, Whiskers was one of the best wilds at FoBaB last year, Hyper Predator is one of the only coffee saisons I've had (and it totally worked), and they brewed a collab with Miller High Life, what's not to love and laugh about with that?

2nd Shift is bringing a ton of really interesting stuff this year.

3 Sheeps is better than you'd expect, especially the dark wheat stuff.

Barley John's Dark Knight is one of the best BA stouts I've ever had. Think Black Tuesday but without the thinness that plagues high ABV Bruery beers.

I think Bells/Upper Hand are underrated in the New World of Hype, and they usually bring the best/most interesting stuff outside of the Real Ale.

Dangerous Man does awesome stuff.

Forager has a ton of potential.

Illuminated is doing off-the-wall stuff and really nice classic Belgian fare.

Right Brain does the weirdest stuff and somehow it works.

Spiteful isn't bringing anything insane, but they're a very good brewery nonetheless.

Urban Chestnut does some wonderful lagers.

I think a lot of people forget that Willoughby is there.

 

Check out Alarmist (obvious plug for a mate's brewery)

 

Yes! The real ale tent is always one of my first stops, I'm a fan of cask ales.