Guide to Milwaukee

[YungCoolship]

For Moon Man / Spotted Cow on tap:

http://ubertaproom.com/

Order the cheese curds. And they have one of the largest selections of cheese in the city. And there are lots of places to visit within walking distance from here. Spice House, Usinger's Sausage House, Old German Beer Hall, the new Milwaukee Bucks stadium Fiserv Forum if that interests you.

Breweries:
Third Space (food truck only)
Good City - they serve food
Gathering Place - no food - well hot pretzels are food I guess

Food and good tap beer selection:
Camino
Vanguard
Stubby's - food can be iffy but they have 53 taps

Lots of other good choices available if none of these strike your fancy.

Some other MKE boys that may chime in here also.

Don't forget Eagle Park

 

[user 306926]

Not to spite my advisor, but I am staying in Bay View. Walking distance to Burnhearts.
But there are other things around town that caught my eye (ACME records, Odd Duck, etc).

Thoughts on:
1840
D-14
Enlightenment

Thanks.

 

[elkhunter36]

Odd Duck is great, there's usually a long wait.

1840 - only been there once. No drafts, you have to buy a bottle and they will open it for you. Kind of weird.

D-14 and Enlightenment - haven't been to either.

Great tap selection at Burnheart's. The music is usually too loud for my grumpy old ass.

Also consider Palm Tavern and Sugar Maple. Great tap selection and both are quiet.

And Cafe Centraal is next to Sugar Maple and is the place to go if you like Belgian beer.

If the wait is too long at Odd Duck walk across the street and eat at Vanguard. Some of the best brat's and sausages in the city (in a city full of brat's and sausages)

 

[bigred1]

Not to spite my advisor, but I am staying in Bay View. Walking distance to Burnhearts.
But there are other things around town that caught my eye (ACME records, Odd Duck, etc).

Thoughts on:
1840
D-14
Enlightenment

Thanks.

1840 is really just now opening to the public, and I believe is adding taps. Their stuff is solid, mostly NEIPAs and sour/saison styles.

D14 is middle of the road. Okay, neither good nor bad, kid of ho-hum. More a place for those breaking out of the macro world than established beer nerds.

I have not been to Enlightened, but I've heard they are kind of in the same boat as D14.

 

[sherm10161]

If you’re in Bay View, go to Goodkind.

Also, I like Roman’s, but I’m probably in the minority.

 

[furley]

https://www.jsonline.com/story/ente...open-milwaukee-taproom-early-2019/1432006002/

Make room for more beer in Milwaukee: Dead Bird is planning a taproom in the Halyard Park area

A new brewery taproom is expected to open at W. Walnut and N. Fifth streets in early 2019.

You just have to get past the name: Dead Bird Brewing.

The moniker has a reasonable story, but the first thing to know is that the taproom will be new but the brewing company marks its third anniversary in November.

Nick Kocis and Jeremy Hach produced Dead Bird beers, such as Pamplemousse American Pale Ale, at Madison's House of Brews, where Kocis was a brewer. House of Brews went up for sale late last year, and Kocis went back to a day job in biochemistry. Dead Bird beers are currently produced at MobCraft Brewing, 505 S. 5th St., in Milwaukee.

The space in the Halyard Park neighborhood will be 3,600 square feet in total with taproom seating for 100. Kocis said Dead Bird will have an outdoor patio space on a wooden deck built out toward the parking lot that will have room for 40 to 50 people.

The plan calls for 16 tap lines that will rotate Dead Bird brews and a line dedicated to gluten-free beers. There also will be a line for house-made soda and maybe a tap line dedicated to cider.

The taproom will feature more than a dozen rotating stand-up arcade games, with competitions planned for the more popular titles, Kocis said.

"We were looking at everything and started hunting for commercial space," Kocis said. "We very quickly made the decision that Milwaukee was going to be a better option for us."

Many of the new places opening in Madison have some food component, but Kocis said they wanted the Dead Bird taproom to concentrate on beer and maybe some snacks. The Dead Bird founders looked east because they wanted to open a taproom that used local restaurants and food trucks for the food portion of the experience, and they wanted to concentrate on pouring beers.

And although he and Hach are from Madison, they were wooed to Milwaukee by economic grants and the "convivial feel" among Milwaukee brewers demonstrated by the Milwaukee Craft Brewers League.

The Halyard Park building was once part of a grocery and delivery company, Kocis said. The part they plan to use was built in 1906 and was the main storage facility. Other parts of the building date back to the late 1890s and were used for horse and wagon storage, as well as office space.

The name Dead Bird dates back to Kocis and Hach's college days in Platteville when they first became curious about brewing.

"The first thing you need (for brewing) is a pot, and that was when people were deep frying turkeys and burning down their garages. Jeremy's parents were into that, and we found a pot in the attic and there was a dead bird in it," Kocis said. They named their future brewery, and then cleaned the pot "within an inch of its life."

A dead bird symbol sits on the bottom of each Dead Bird logo glass.

Kocis said the plan calls for continuing to brew at MobCraft. Dead Bird won't have a brewing system in the beginning but likely would add a pilot system eventually.

In addition to Pamplemousse, Dead Bird also makes Order as Needed, an American pale ale; Wine Thief, a Belgian witbier style made with Sauvignon Blanc grape must; and The Unthinkable Muscleman, a double Imperial India Pale Ale.

 

[sherm10161]

https://www.jsonline.com/story/ente...open-milwaukee-taproom-early-2019/1432006002/

Make room for more beer in Milwaukee: Dead Bird is planning a taproom in the Halyard Park area

A new brewery taproom is expected to open at W. Walnut and N. Fifth streets in early 2019.

You just have to get past the name: Dead Bird Brewing.

The moniker has a reasonable story, but the first thing to know is that the taproom will be new but the brewing company marks its third anniversary in November.

Nick Kocis and Jeremy Hach produced Dead Bird beers, such as Pamplemousse American Pale Ale, at Madison's House of Brews, where Kocis was a brewer. House of Brews went up for sale late last year, and Kocis went back to a day job in biochemistry. Dead Bird beers are currently produced at MobCraft Brewing, 505 S. 5th St., in Milwaukee.

The space in the Halyard Park neighborhood will be 3,600 square feet in total with taproom seating for 100. Kocis said Dead Bird will have an outdoor patio space on a wooden deck built out toward the parking lot that will have room for 40 to 50 people.

The plan calls for 16 tap lines that will rotate Dead Bird brews and a line dedicated to gluten-free beers. There also will be a line for house-made soda and maybe a tap line dedicated to cider.

The taproom will feature more than a dozen rotating stand-up arcade games, with competitions planned for the more popular titles, Kocis said.

"We were looking at everything and started hunting for commercial space," Kocis said. "We very quickly made the decision that Milwaukee was going to be a better option for us."

Many of the new places opening in Madison have some food component, but Kocis said they wanted the Dead Bird taproom to concentrate on beer and maybe some snacks. The Dead Bird founders looked east because they wanted to open a taproom that used local restaurants and food trucks for the food portion of the experience, and they wanted to concentrate on pouring beers.

And although he and Hach are from Madison, they were wooed to Milwaukee by economic grants and the "convivial feel" among Milwaukee brewers demonstrated by the Milwaukee Craft Brewers League.

The Halyard Park building was once part of a grocery and delivery company, Kocis said. The part they plan to use was built in 1906 and was the main storage facility. Other parts of the building date back to the late 1890s and were used for horse and wagon storage, as well as office space.

The name Dead Bird dates back to Kocis and Hach's college days in Platteville when they first became curious about brewing.

"The first thing you need (for brewing) is a pot, and that was when people were deep frying turkeys and burning down their garages. Jeremy's parents were into that, and we found a pot in the attic and there was a dead bird in it," Kocis said. They named their future brewery, and then cleaned the pot "within an inch of its life."

A dead bird symbol sits on the bottom of each Dead Bird logo glass.

Kocis said the plan calls for continuing to brew at MobCraft. Dead Bird won't have a brewing system in the beginning but likely would add a pilot system eventually.

In addition to Pamplemousse, Dead Bird also makes Order as Needed, an American pale ale; Wine Thief, a Belgian witbier style made with Sauvignon Blanc grape must; and The Unthinkable Muscleman, a double Imperial India Pale Ale.

Not sure I love the location, but good luck to them.

 

[furley]

Not sure I love the location, but good luck to them.

that's what i was thinking.

Milwaukee has changed a lot in the 15 years since i've lived there so maybe this isn't the sort of quasi-industrial/commercial/highway/empty lots area that's sort of disconnected from everything that i rememeber.

 

[sherm10161]

that's what i was thinking.

Milwaukee has changed a lot in the 15 years since i've lived there so maybe this isn't the sort of quasi-industrial/commercial/highway/empty lots area that's sort of disconnected from everything that i rememeber.

I feel like Brewers Hill hasn't gentrified the way some people were expecting, and Halyard Park is west of there. I don't think there'll be any foot traffic, and for people living down on Commerce St., they could just as easily go to Lakefront or Eagle Park or even Stubby's. There might be some people living on the north shore who will take MLK home and stop and grab a growler maybe, but I think it's gonna be tough.

 

[furley]

I feel like Brewers Hill hasn't gentrified the way some people were expecting, and Halyard Park is west of there. I don't think there'll be any foot traffic, and for people living down on Commerce St., they could just as easily go to Lakefront or Eagle Park or even Stubby's. There might be some people living on the north shore who will take MLK home and stop and grab a growler maybe, but I think it's gonna be tough.

yeah, it's just sort of a no-man's land almost. there's no... there... there.

 

[YungCoolship]

Not sure I love the location, but good luck to them.

Couldn't agree more, I was reading the article and I couldn't get passed Location, Location, Location!