JohnfromPurdue
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Figured it's time to do Milwaukee
Dear FIB's, buy your New Glarus at Woodman's in Kenosha. No Credit Cards, just cash, check, debit cards!
Beer Stores:
Beer Bars/Pubs:
Calling other MKE people to complete my list...
Last Updated 6/16/2015
Dear FIB's, buy your New Glarus at Woodman's in Kenosha. No Credit Cards, just cash, check, debit cards!
Beer Stores:
- Discount Liquors - Best beer selection in the city, afaic. Bourbon/whiskey selection is good too. Prices are good.
- Ray's Wine - Great beer and bourbon selection. Consistently $1 more expensive for any given beer than Discount. They just started a growler "gallery" that only consists of "rare" beers. They like unnecessarily hyping things but the growler gallery is a nice addition. From the sound of it, they will fill any growler.
- Otto's on Oakland - Pretty decent selection of beer. Their bourbon/whiskey selection is above average.
- Whole Foods - Good beer selection. Consistently $1 more expensive for any given beer than most places. Growler fills available.
- Woodman's - Good beer selection. Good price. No Credit Cards, just cash, check, debit cards!
- Malt Shoppe - Nearly everything is available as singles. The IPAs are stored in cooler (but w/ singles - still have to watch bottle dates) There are 30 taps (will growler fills on most) so you can drink as you peruse the selection.
Beer Bars/Pubs:
- Burnhearts, Sugar Maple, Palm Tavern, and Roman's pub - All 4 spots are top notch beer bars. They are all in Bayview. The first 3 have pretty good bourbon/whiskey selections also. Can't speak for Roman's whiskey selection. There is no food at any of them but being in Bayview (hipster heaven) there are a lot of great eateries around (Lulu's, Honeypie, Odd Duck, Palomino's, etc...)
- Rumpus Room - Expensive, Yippy, downtown near a lot of other things on Water street. Good beer and whiskey selection. Beware of out-of-date whiskey list. Good food.
- Stubby's - Good beer selection. Food is overpriced for me. They try to be fancy with their food but it doesn't always hit. Don't get me wrong, their food is above average bar food but there are just so many good places to eat in MKE that they fall short for the price. If you're in the area go to Bel Air for tacos and walk down the street to Stubby's for beer.
- Von Trier - Cool old German bar. They have a good beer selection, no food. I got 16oz of La Folie on tap for $6. Can't beat that. Eat at Comet and have a beer there then walk down to Von Trier.
- Cafe Centraal, Cafe Hollander, Cafe Benelux - Belgian themed restaurants with a large beer selection and good food. Most beer is in bottles not on tap.
- Comet - Great food, sister restaurant to Honeypie and Palomino but it's on the near north side instead of the south side of the city. Beer selection is Good. Not a ton of taps like Sugar Maple or Stubby's but some pretty quality beer. Pretty decent bottle list too. The last 2x I've been there I had Lakefront Johnson IIPA (fresh) and Oskar Blues Ten Fidy aged in whiskey barrels on tap.
- Goodkind is a restaurant started by owner of burnhearts and some local chefs from other great restaurants.
- Estabrook park, as well as a new one that just opened in hubbard park - German beer gardens open in the summer.
- Milwaukee public market - It's a bunch of shops crammed in one open building:
- Nehring's Market has 13ish taps, does growler fills, sells bottles and has good food.
- Theif wine
- West Allis Cheese shop has cheese (obviously) and local food.
- a bunch of other places I don't remember the name of: mexican, middle eastern, seafood, soup place, salad place. All of which have good food.
- Draft and Vessel - Small craft beer bar with growler fills, no food.
- Vanguard - opened recently. Fantastic sausages and 22 (thereabouts?) taps.
- Lakefront - Great tour. I find them to be hit and miss on their beers. Their best are Johnson IIPA, IPA, Fixed Gear, and Riverwest Stein.
- Milwaukee Brewing Company / Ale House - I like Milwaukee brewing company. They are more hit and miss than Lakefront but they usually have some different things on tap at the Ale House. The food at the Ale house isn't bad but I've never really been impressed with it.
- Great Lakes Distillery - No beer, just booze. The tour is just ok but you get to try their product line at the end. It's worth going in my opinion. Nice mixed drinks too.
- Tornado Brewing - It's in Cudahy though...
- District 14 - have seen positive checkins on untapped.
- Brenner Brewing - Solid beers
- Company Brewing - The food is pretty good, as are their beers. The grapefruit IPA, though not exceptional, was "clean" and easy drinking. I really liked their rye porter.
- Bobby Nelson Cheese Shop - Same exit as the Mars cheese castle. Hole-in-the-wall, no gimmick, great cheese and sausages, Cash Only!
- O&H Bakery - Sure WI is known for cheese but don't pass up the kringle (you can thank me later). Don't buy kringle from the Mars Cheese Castle. Theirs is terrible. O&H or bust!
- Jake's Deli or Benji's Deli for a Reuben.
- Colectivo Lakefront Cafe (formerly Alterra) - Local coffee chain. Good inexpensive food. The Lakefront location is in a prime spot on Lake Michigan. You could walk the lake, walk to Bradford Beach, or walk to the MKE Art museum from there.
- The Best Place is a tour of the old pabst brewery that is pretty entertaining. They have a shop filled with vintage glassware that they found on the grounds.
- Il Ritrovo - Some of the best wood-fired pizza I've ever had. Their process and oven are certified by some authentic Napoletana Pizza Organization in Italy. They serve the standard lineup of Italian imported beer as well as some Italian craft and a couple local WI taps. Nothing too crazy.
- 8th Street Ale Haus - This place was right down the street from Il Ritrovo so a nice option before or/and after dinner. They have food but didn't look too interesting. It seemed like they tap vintage kegs somewhat regularly (had 2011 NG Thumbprint Barleywine when I was there this past winter). Their bottle prices are very reasonable as well for a bar.
- Kohler Design Center - Cool place to visit if you have any kind of interest in product/home design. It's free to visitors. I've never stayed there, but they're suppose to run a nice resort and spa on the grounds as well.
Calling other MKE people to complete my list...
Last Updated 6/16/2015
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