The WI Thread: FIBs stay the **** out

[MarcatGSB1]

I'll at a conference at UMadison 7/24-7/30, any recommendations on places I should visit? I won't have too much time to travel, but I'd love to know about any places near by. Cheers!

Karben4 for beer and lunch
Brasserie V for beer and dinner
Malt House for late evening drinks/chill time.

 

[mctizzz]

Karben4 for beer and lunch
Brasserie V for beer and dinner
Malt House for late evening drinks/chill time.

Thanks, any opinions on Mr. Brews, Hawk's, Side Door, Whiskey Jacks, or OSS?
Found them on BeerMenus and all have decent tap lists.

 

[MarcatGSB1]

Thanks, any opinions on Mr. Brews, Hawk's, Side Door, Whiskey Jacks, or OSS?
Found them on BeerMenus and all have decent tap lists.

Have only been to Whiskey Jack's and Side Door... Both solid places. I guess I just fell in love with Brasserie V and Malt House, and don't really need to go elsewhere after a few hours at each place.
Sounds like you're going to be in town for quite a while and will probably be able to hit most places you want.

 

[user 310531]

I'm a fan of Dexter's. Good food and taps.

 

[user 310531]

Also, I'm not sure if the remodel is done yet, but go to the Memorial Union terrace. They actually have a solid beer list. You have to be a union member to purchase beer, but all you have to do is ask for a guest pass.

 

[lb304854]

Looking for a good camping spot on short notice within 45 minutes of New Glarus. Everything I can find is booked solid or a family resort type.

 

[bigred1]

Looking for a good camping spot on short notice within 45 minutes of New Glarus. Everything I can find is booked solid or a family resort type.

New Glarus State Woods

 

[lb304854]

New Glarus State Woods

I'm banking on it being full when I get there tomorrow evening. Is it as much of a ******** as the reviews say?

 

[trickytunadicky]

I'm banking on it being full when I get there tomorrow evening. Is it as much of a ******** as the reviews say?

Yellowstone Lake.

 

[trickytunadicky]

New Glrarus woods is nicer than Yellowstone Lake

 

[lb304854]

Yellowstone Lake.

Full. As is Blue Mound.

 

[bigred1]

I'm banking on it being full when I get there tomorrow evening. Is it as much of a ******** as the reviews say?

I camp there every year over Great Taste weekend, it's not too bad.

 

[lb304854]

I camp there every year over Great Taste weekend, it's not too bad.

Read no showers and fires must be out by 10 or something crazy. True?

 

[bigred1]

I'm banking on it being full when I get there tomorrow evening. Is it as much of a ******** as the reviews say?

Looks like there are four walk up sites available for tomorrow night, but nothing for Saturday.

 

[bigred1]

Read no showers and fires must be out by 10 or something crazy. True?

No showers is true. It may be a rule that fires need to be out by 10, but we have never abided by this and have never had a problem.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Too bad you don't know anyone with property near the Dell's. Maybe you shouldn't ask if you can use it.

 

[trickytunadicky]

No showers is true. It may be a rule that fires need to be out by 10, but we have never abided by this and have never had a problem.

Rolled into their once campin at a group site with a case of New Glarus on my friend's lap in the back seas. Ranger said "you kids behave tonight."

 

[danbanana]

Yellowstone Lake.

TRUE STORY: Last August my wife, some friends, and myself decided to camp at Yellowstone instead of New Glarus because of the lake. We planned on a couple days of swimming and catchin' rays and having a few beers. Unfortunately, we arrived in a torrential rainstorm that Friday night that resulted in:

• A couple of friends having to completely disassemble and reassemble their newly-purchased pop-up tent in the rain because it was inexplicably put together incorrectly. Like, it was new out of the box but definitely not properly assembled at the factory.
• Six adults and two large dogs huddled on and around a picnic table under a canopy tent until 3a, drinking copious amounts of beer, wine, and whiskey while the ground under us turned into a mud pile 4-6 inches deep.
• The reassembled tent collapsing on one of my friends while sleeping because it turns out they didn't "fix" it right.
• 2/3 of the group sleeping in cars the first night.
• Waking up at 7a on Saturday... to start drinking again. And make bacon.
• One pair of shoes that caught on fire while trying to dry them over the fire; Another that outright melted. This happened because we were drunk at 11a.
• Lots of falling down when trying to walk away from the fire area because the hill leading away was just mud.
• Me bleeding from my brow at some point in the evening because a particularly large friend fell on me because of said hill.
• Essentially 15 straight hours of drinking with literally zero swimming.
• Probably one of the 5 worst hangovers I've ever had on Sunday. I honestly do not know how I didn't vomit the whole drive home.

Anyway, I highly recommend Yellowstone Lake. Good time.

And since I'm posting: the wife, new baby, and I are renting a house outside of NG in a couple months to chill over a long weekend. I've never been so is there anything there or between there and FIBLand that I should hit?

 

[trickytunadicky]

TRUE STORY: Last August my wife, some friends, and myself decided to camp at Yellowstone instead of New Glarus because of the lake. We planned on a couple days of swimming and catchin' rays and having a few beers. Unfortunately, we arrived in a torrential rainstorm that Friday night that resulted in:

• A couple of friends having to completely disassemble and reassemble their newly-purchased pop-up tent in the rain because it was inexplicably put together incorrectly. Like, it was new out of the box but definitely not properly assembled at the factory.
• Six adults and two large dogs huddled on and around a picnic table under a canopy tent until 3a, drinking copious amounts of beer, wine, and whiskey while the ground under us turned into a mud pile 4-6 inches deep.
• The reassembled tent collapsing on one of my friends while sleeping because it turns out they didn't "fix" it right.
• 2/3 of the group sleeping in cars the first night.
• Waking up at 7a on Saturday... to start drinking again. And make bacon.
• One pair of shoes that caught on fire while trying to dry them over the fire; Another that outright melted. This happened because we were drunk at 11a.
• Lots of falling down when trying to walk away from the fire area because the hill leading away was just mud.
• Me bleeding from my brow at some point in the evening because a particularly large friend fell on me because of said hill.
• Essentially 15 straight hours of drinking with literally zero swimming.
• Probably one of the 5 worst hangovers I've ever had on Sunday. I honestly do not know how I didn't vomit the whole drive home.

Anyway, I highly recommend Yellowstone Lake. Good time.

And since I'm posting: the wife, new baby, and I are renting a house outside of NG in a couple months to chill over a long weekend. I've never been so is there anything there or between there and FIBLand that I should hit?

Because you stayed there when it rained you missed that there is a gun range a mile away. We stayed there when it was inexplicably 95 the third week in October. I got a blinding migraine so we ditched camp for a few hours (before we knew there was a brewery down the road sadly), went to the swiss colony outlet and Pizza Hut in Monroe because AC helped the migraine. Got woken up both mornings by the sound of gunshots in the distance. Was a pretty miserable trip overall, but I ate my weight in beef log and petit fors.


And before someone suggest that I, in fact hate camping, this was the worst it has ever been for me- well aside from that trip to Morris where we had to ditch camping because the wind tore my rain fly in a thunderstorm, but even then I never used the word miserble to describe that trip.

 

[MarcatGSB1]

"FIBs stay the **** out"

 

[trickytunadicky]

"FIBs stay the **** out"

You don't live in Wisconsin either.

 

[lb304854]

You don't live in Wisconsin either.

Debatable.

 

[furley]

Debatable.

we haven't gotten over the copper wars yet

 

[thegerm87]

Hey all - anybody attending the Funk Factory release that would be willing to help trustee for me?

 

[MikeG1]

Once thegerm87 is taken care of, I'm looking for a trustee as well.

 

[elkhunter36]

Hey all - anybody attending the Funk Factory release that would be willing to help trustee for me?

Once thegerm87 is taken care of, I'm looking for a trustee as well.

I got you guys.

 

[Petcha]

Mostly a lurker on this site, but have positive feedback on the other one.

If anyone wants to trustee for me for the upcoming oso/ff relase I'd take care of shipping/gas money and offer thank you bottles. Assuming I get in on the ticket sales of course let me know if you can help! Cheers

 

[furley]

Bier Zot in Sister Bay is legit

 

[sjstraub]

I'm actually curious how the Oso trustee thing works. Can anyone explain it for me?

 

[Gonzoillini1]

I'm actually curious how the Oso trustee thing works. Can anyone explain it for me?

You purchase the beers on brown paper tickets, send your trustee your id, and your trustee picks them up on your behalf.