Milwaukee/Southeast Wisconsin Beer

lakefront is the best brewery tour in town in my opinion. Bottle shops to visit are discount liquor, ray's, and malte shoppe.

 

Was up visiting friends back in April and they took me here. Great beers on tap, food trucks out front. I would give this place a shot.

http://www.raisedgrainbrewing.com/

 

Breweries, Good City & Black Husky are both pretty new (well Black Husky just moved from Northern WI) but both are worth checking out.

 

Milwaukee Ale House, http://ale-house.com/ (click the 3 horizontal bars below the "Ale House" logo, for menus) has very good beer and food. They also have a location further north, in Grafton, http://www.alehousegrafton.com/

 

I'm a little biased but stop in at Black Husky and say hi!

 

Black Husky
Raised Grain (Waukesha)
Company Brewing (Riverwest)

 

There have been a few discussions in the past about Milwaukee, here's some links to them, though some of the info is a little old but you can get some good variety of opinions in:
http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/bottle-shops-in-milwaukee.158324/
http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/a-couple-of-milwaukee-questions.125793/ (more bars and such)
http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/bottle-shops-in-milwaukee.122990/

Hopefully you're driving in or will have a car, cause everything is unfortunately spread around. Really, it boils down to a few locations in each category in my opinion:

Bottle & Growler Shops
Don't forget to check their Facebook and/or twitter feeds for new releases and beermenus.com or app for tap lists
Discount Liquor (51st and Oklahoma) - probably biggest bottle selection in the city, my preferred choice typically, (FYI only open 10-2 Sundays)
Ray's Wine and Spirits (~90th and North Ave in Wauwatosa) - Another great liquor store with a big selection and a big plus that virtually all their beers are in the cooler
The Malt Shoppe (Hwy 100/Mayfair Rd and just north of Wisconsin Ave) - Newer bottle and growler shop with huge selection and 30 taps. Virtually all bottles can be bought as a 4/6pack or individually.
Otto's (Particularly on Oakland and Otto's Wine Cask on Brown Deer Rd) - Nice store with good selection and always seems to have a couple nice bottles of limited or vintage beer
Woodman's (Oak Creek, Kenosha, Waukesha, Menomonee Falls) - HUGE grocery and liquor stores with big selection, good prices
Three Cellars (Franklin [far south suburb] and Menomonee Falls [north suburb]) - Two nice bottle shops with tap rooms and Menomonee Falls doing crowlers. Always seem to have a good selection and some solid and limited/unique taps
Draft & Vessel - Cool place in Shorewood, has some bottles and a pretty solid tap list typically. Really cool aesthetic and vibe to it. It's a ways away from where I live so I haven't gotten there much, but they recently expanded and heard the space has only improved even more

Beer Bars
Just check facebook/twitter/beermenus for their up to date tap selection, but really you can't go wrong with almost any of them
Stubby's Gastrogrub and Beer Bar has great taps and solid food
The Rumpus Room The casual/trendy restaurant for the big restaurant group in town. Good food albeit higher-end/pricey, lots of great beers, plus if you want to mix it up, their true specialty is that they make amazing cocktails. Plus an incredible bourbon list (used to regularly have pappy available by the pour, but now you know, it's pappy so...) But this place can get really busy FYI.
The Lowlands Group restaurants (Cafe Hollander, Cafe Centraal, Cafe Benelux, Trocadero, Cafe Bavaria) are themed on Belgian/European beers and food and are all really solid places, but less emphasis on local brews than then above places.
But really, just go to Bayview. 4 of the top 100 beer bars in America IN ONE NEIGHBORHOOD all within about a mile or 2 of each other. Sadly none really serve food, but there's good options nearby
Sugar Maple in Bayview has a superb selection of beers but no food, but many really good restaurants within walking distance.
Roman's Pub has a great tap selection as well - check out their Facebook for updates.
Burnhearts another really good, nationally rated bar that has some awesome taps and bottle selection (and they're only a couple blocks from Vanguard and Honey Pie, two great restaurants, Vanguard for Sausages and bourbon and old school wrestling on TV and Honey Pie for way above average local/american meals
The Palm Tavern (New addition to the top 100 this year) great taps awesome bourbon, and occasionally a really nice surprise on tap (one day just randomly put on BA Victory at Sea just cause)

Breweries
Lakefront - Friday nights has their famous fish-fry. Really good, one of my favorites. But be prepared to wait if you get there after about 5:30-6:00. Unless you've already been on the tour, don't dismiss it. One of the best in the country. Otherwise during the days and weekends, it primarily is a brewery with tours and then they sell their taps too, but now has food daily in their beer hall
Good City Brewing - Brand new in the last month or two. Great location and space. Really enjoyed their Motto mosaic Pale Ale. Also looked like they had some nice food, but I didn't eat there.
Company Brewing - newer place in Riverwest. Beer was good, but was impressed with their really great food.
Black Husky - newly opened brewery and tap room in Riverwest but have been getting bottles down here for a couple years. Haven't been myself to the new brewery yet, but heard nothing but positives for the new location and their beers are well regarded with the hoppy beers being their forte.
Raised Grain Brewing - in the Western Suburbs, but really been making some impressive beers. Sometimes you can find them on tap at other bars/growler shops

Hope that helps some and if you have any questions or want more specifics, I'm happy to chat some more. Enjoy your trip to The Good Land (insert Alice Cooper here). Cheers!