midwest IPA help (visiting Milwaukee, WI)

Just to let you in on a little secret no need to drive up to Three Cellars, I recently found out Tenuta's in Kenosha now carries Black Husky beers. I will stop in tomorrow and let you know which beers are being sold. So if driving up from Illinois hit Tenuta's for Black Husky.

 

And some ravioli. And olive oil. And, well, anything Italian....that place is awesome!

 

Fresh shipment of FFF came in this week @Ottos Oakland! And Bells Oracle ....

 

and don't forget to stop for lunch at Fourth Base in West Milwaukee, do some beer hunting, and head down to Racine for dinner at Wells Brothers Pizza!!!

 

I'm there once a week for an italian sausage for lunch off the grill.

 

Tell you what- grab some Toppling Goliath and come on back to MKE. Custard is on me.

 

The WI IPA scene is only OK. Lots of solid offerings that won't blow your mind. I will throw out 2 exceptions: Bedlam is slight above a solid offering, but at this point it is getting old.

Also, Black Husky is pretty amazing. Those are pretty unique experiences. Looking forward to picking up a couple sixers from them tonight.

 

Just dropped beer at Tenuta's Tuesday. That is a really cool place. When I hit Milwaukee deliveries I stay with my son and he lives not far from Glorioso's which is great but Tenuta's is huge! Haven't had their sausage but I try to get one from Glorioso's when I can. Eddie G. is still working and I think he turned 90 this year.

 

BTW I am brewing Sproose Joose right now.

 

What did you bring down to Tenuta's on Tuesday? I will have to stop in after work and stock up. Kyle the beer guy there is a great guy and as long as your beer continues down here you will have plenty of support. A heads-up on the delivery of Sproose Joose would be awesome.

 

Delivered Pale, Sproose and Jodlerkonig, our Oktoberfest.

Kyle is a very nice guy and keeps an impressive beer inventory. Or beer as we stipulated prior to agreeing to take on another bottle account, goes directly into the coolers.

How do you like the cowbells?

 

Where would you recommend looking for your beer in MSN?

 

Sounds good, I gotta make my way up to Decorah, I have not been there yet, but I have not seen any Toppling in the Hyvee here in Clinton, but I think I'm going to check out one of the Hyvees down in the QCs next time I'm down there

 

He showed me the bottle (cowbells) two weeks ago, pretty sweet. Looks like I will be stopping there tonight.

 

In Madison we are at Blue Moon and Star Liquor.

We tied all those cowbells by hand. It seemed like a really good idea when I thought of it.

 

Thanks!

 

Do you guys have plans to drop product at other bottle shops in Madison? I encourage you to look at Rileys, Alpine, and Jenifer Street Market.

 

I just read on my weekly Three Cellars beer release e-mail that Three Cellars has Toppling goliath Golden Nugget on tap. Is Toppling Goliath making its way into Wisconsin or might this be something special the store received?

 

Wow, I guess Wisconsin really is a drinker's paradise after all.

 

I just bought a Sproose Joose at Downer because of this thread. Can't wait to bring it back to NY and share it with some friends on Sunday while watching the Packer game.